Some updates
- We cleaned up the place a little. New colors, better buttons, spicier home page, overhauled nav.
- Enrollment in Draft Plan is ongoing.
- We have 1-week turnarounds for teardowns. This is the lowest it can get, don’t sleep!
- Thanks to some updates on our merchant’s end, we now accept instant ACH payment for all of our products, as well as several major third-party payment providers. You can buy our stuff with Apple Pay now! The future!
- Due to gestures grandly, we have had to change the list of countries that we deliver our books, zines, and posters to. In short, if your country can’t accept international priority mail packages, or if delivery logistics have become too complex to reliably guarantee arrival, we aren’t going to be able to ship there for the time being. For those who still want to receive our shipments (as well as other shipments from the States), we suggest Earth Class Mail as an affordable way to accept & forward our books in the future.
- Finally, as we mentioned earlier, we’re going to be pausing sales of some of our older courses. Enroll in Ecommerce Email Mastery and Draft Analysis before 5pm CDT on Friday, April 22.
This week, for paid members
- Our design of the week shows something interesting that we noticed in a browser recently. A browser!
- This week’s paid lesson is all about how to accept new design, such that you can act on it effectively. What mindset do we need going forward?
- And we’re back with a monthly presentation on color swatches – useful for apparel brands, home goods, and any store that sells multiple colors of a thing.
- Our next office hours are today, Tuesday April 19, at 1pm CDT. Sign up as a member and ask me anything!
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Links & analysis
- My favorite design researcher is Jan Chipchase – and his mailing list, Studio D Radar, is essential. It doesn’t seem to allow permalinks, or I’d provide the catalyst for this, which was a beautiful summary of how to effectively exist in public. Go subscribe.
- Related (and linked in Radar’s latest): Lauren Serota on the most important lessons in impact design.
- “We were not going to let this area die.” Dollar vans.
- Design decisions in information display, courtesy of those who built dashboards for tracking the progress of the pandemic over the past couple of years.
- “Imagine not spending $1,000,000 on buttons.” I don’t think this takes much imagination for me. Perhaps it does for bigger companies.
- This week on Baymard, here is the deep dive into subscription offerings that you have requested.
This week’s paid lesson: How do you shift your mindset in order to better accept new research?
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