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Inside the Coterie 002: Season's Greetings 🎄
INo. 002 — December 28th, 2022
Hello Reader,
Inside the Coterie is a bi-weekly dispatch of insights and resources that make a difference in your design practice.
Merry Christmas! 🎅🏽🎄
I hope you're spending the holiday season surrounded by loved ones and are having a joyful and restful time. Whether you celebrate Christmas or other holidays, I hope that this time of year brings you happiness and positivity.
📖 What we're reading
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Our customers or target audience make most of their decisions just like we do; based on an emotional response. This is often overlooked when designing products or experiences.
Source: Understanding Emotional Design
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"Go for a walk, clean your room, listen to happy music[...] Sometimes we want new, never before seen solutions to our problems [but] sometimes the simple things are exactly what we need to do."
Treasure Okure in Notes on Anxiety
🎧 What we’re listening to
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Even big brands like Sprite with decades of marketing dollars go through refreshes to remain up-to-date with their audience. In this episode of A Change of Brand, we learn about how they achieved this very recently.
Listen on Spotify | Google Podcasts
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Get into the groove with this "fantasm." playlist specially made for you to bust some moves during this holiday cheer. *wink
Listen on Spotify | Youtube Music
⚡ What we’re making
Today's featured coterifolk is Kehinde Olasupo. Kenny is a brand designer with about 5 years of experience. He’s led and collaborated with new and established teams to design beautiful, scalable, and distinct visual and motion systems.
His work is firmly grounded in brand storytelling. He’s passionate about finding, expressing, and scaling a brand's unique selling points (USPs) across multiple touch-points and channels like web, social, and print.
See more of what Kenny is making
🧰 What we’re using
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Use this Figma Community file to create holiday greeting cards for family and friends this season.
📺 What we’re watching
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As early as 1963, Ivan Sutherland did a mindblowing demo of a design tool called SketchPad. It's truly amazing how early UX patterns for computer-aided creation seemed clairvoyant in their applications.
Until next time folks,
Caleb.
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