UX/UI Design
5 Steps That Will Improve Your Products, Services, and Brand
The Design Thinking process is an iterative methodology that involves 6 stages all with the goal of finding and fixing your user's pains and problems.
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Kari Skaflen
Kari is a copywriter and content writer at Pixel506. She has a BA in French Language and Literature, and an MA in European Studies. In addition to writing, Kari is a certified Pilates teacher. Kari is completely addicted to surfing and dedicates as much of her free time as possible to being in the ocean.
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UX/UI Design
Co-Creation Tools: Designing for the Future (Infographic)
Co-creation is a methodology within service design that allows multi-disciplinary teams from different backgrounds to work together to effectively create holistic services and products.
Content
Blogging: Why and When to Recycle Your Content
Recycle your content: Update your information and trends, optimize content SEO, improve writing quality, and avoid running out of ideas. Recycle content as often as you need, at least once a year.
UX/UI Design
First Questions to Ask When Creating Great UX
Before you can start designing and developing a UX product/service, you must know your user. Here are 4 questions you need to ask in user interviews in order to make user journey maps and user personas.
Marketing
Myths Busted: Digital Marketing Is Not Too Expensive
Digital marketing is too expensive- Wrong. There are workarounds that are definitely worth it. You just have to get started and do it.
Marketing
Drive Conversions: Marketing is More than Advertisements
It’s not enough to drive a bunch of visitors to your websites, if they go there, look, and don’t do anything. Visitors have to convert. They have to register, use, buy. So, how do you turn your visito...
Marketing, Content
Generosity and Humility Are the Forgotten Heroes of Content Marketing
Focusing on being generous and humble when creating and pushing your content marketing will make your content that much more powerful and will naturally improve sales.
Content
Winter Content Marketing: The Banking Industry
Content marketing is an exceptionally important point for the banking industry, an industry where digital marketing and sales revolves around getting into their customer’s head and knowing what they n...
UX/UI Design
Detect Trends that Improve Your Product and Service Design
Detecting trends is necessary when designing an innovative product or service. You need to know how the world is changing if you are going to design products to change with it.
Content
Four Essential Tips for Improving Your Instagram Video Experience
Four Essential Tips for Improving Your Instagram Video Experience
Content
Why Follow-Baiting Needs to Die on Instagram
Follow-baiting is the practice of “following” a profile with the intention that they follow you back. Once they have your follow, then they unfollow you. It's dishonest, selfish, and needs to stop.
Content
This One Step Can Triple the Success of Your Product
Testing with real users allows us to validate the efficiency of our designs so that we can solve problems and optimize as early as possible in a project, saving time and money.
UX/UI Design
5 Ways User Experience Boosts ROI
User experience boosts ROI by creating loyal users, increasing customer retention, improving marketing and design strategy, and naturally increasing the innovative ability of your team.
Marketing
What Is Digital Transformation?
With digital transformation, companies anticipate changes coming from evolving society and is driven by changes in technology. It is what happens when business embraces digital disruption and creates ...
Marketing
Marketing Implications of User-Generated Content for Image Search
Ecommerce applications and companies should be using user-generated content to aid in their image search optimization. Be found by your users using visual search- uploading photos in order to find sim...
Content
2018 New Facebook Algorithm: How to Market on Facebook
Don't let the new Facebook algorithm get you down. Learn three tips to figure out how to get around it and make sure the right people see your content and engage with your brand.
Content
How to Support Your Favorite Brands on Facebook
You've noticed that Facebook doesn't show you your favorite branded content anymore. If you're wondering how to support your favorite brands on Facebook and see the content that you want to see, you h...
UX/UI Design
What User Experience Brings to Digital Platforms
Digital platform design without user experience is like a sandwich with bread and meat and nothing else. But with UX, design can increase higher rates of success.
Content
Trending Design Tip: Digital Microinteractions
Small interactions based in digital platforms are what’s currently in vogue. They are small communication moments that allow users to navigate a design.
Marketing, Content
Content Marketing Without a Website
There are so many (free) platforms out there where you can post your content and start growing your brand and following, even if you haven't launched your website yet.
UX/UI Design
Why User Experience Matters in Digital Marketing
User experience uses different methodologies and tools to make sure our marketing efforts reach our target audience better while saving time and money.
Marketing, Content
Why We Don’t “Sell” with Our Content Marketing
Content marketing is about being helpful. When you truly want to help people, they will trust you more and look to your brand when it's time to make a buying decision.
Content
4 Ways To Write Digital Ad Messages
Don't get stuck creating just one kind of ad, when there are many styles and strategies that will reach different kinds of target audiences.
Marketing, Content
3 Reasons Your Content Marketing Isn't Working
Your content marketing isn't working because it feels fake, is unoriginal, or isn't addressing something your audience actually wants to hear about.
Content
You Need an Efficient Content Marketing Strategy
Efficient content marketing saves time and energy. This means posting the same content on all social networks, and using one piece of content to create more pieces.
Marketing, Content
What’s New for Pixel506 Social Media and Content Marketing
2017 was a year of new beginnings, most notable for the re-launch of our digital marketing and content marketing strategy. 2018 is going to be the year we take marketing to the next level.
Content
5 Successful Social Media Marketing Qualities You Must Have
There's no single way to create a successful social media marketing campaign, but you definitely need to have as many of these 5 qualities as possible for success and better ROI.
UX/UI Design
How to Know What's Going on with Your User Every Step of the Way
In order to improve, you need to know where the gaps in your product journey or service are. In order to find this information, you need to map out your user journey, taking into account their needs, ...
Content
Content Marketing Vs. Social Media Marketing
Content marketing and social media marketing are not exactly the same thing, but they are both important for providing value for and interacting with your customers and followers.
Marketing, Content
Winter Content Marketing: Educational Institutions
Find out how content marketing can make your college or education institution rise above its competitors, especially during this time of year: Winter.
Content
How to Post New Content Every Day on Social Media
Posting content every day, or several times a day, is a great goal if your business is in the right place. Find out how to maintain quality, variety, and value while posting on social media everyday.
Content
5 Common Myths and Facts about Digital Transformation
Although the importance of digital transformation has been growing significantly in recent years, its popularity has exploded since the pandemic took hold. Yet despite being a priority for many busine...
Marketing
5 Examples of How to Unlock Success in Digital Transformations
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to modify existing or create new business processes and customer experiences to meet changing requirements. We are sharing 5 example...
Marketing
Digital Marketing: Innovation in Marketing
Digital marketing includes content marketing, search engine optimization, and digital campaigns that leverage social media platforms to reach people already interested in the industry.
UX/UI Design
Designing a Complex Service but Want to Visualize It Simply? Use Blueprints.
Blueprints is the best design tool to visualize complex services and product experiences, with the goal of finding gaps and proposing solutions.
Marketing, Content
What Are Your Content Marketing Priorities?
The way you create content will tell a lot about your ultimate priorities. And your priorities will speak through in your content. Therefore, you’ll want to be careful what you priorities are.
Marketing, Content
How to Audit and Optimize Your Content Marketing
Optimize your content marketing with a complete audit, to find out what content you have, what you should write about, and what content needs to be optimized.
Marketing, Content
The Best E-commerce Engine: Your Content
Check out our guidelines for creating valuable content for your e-commerce site.
Marketing, Content
Smarter Content for a Smarter Google
What is the Google BERT Algorithm update all about? If you are wondering how it will affect your website traffic and SEO efforts, consider digging deeper into this relevant and interesting subject to ...
Development, UX/UI Design
Voice Interaction Power Is Here to Stay
What is voice interaction? Well, it’s the biggest UX challenge nowadays. No doubt voice interaction power is here to stay. Read more.
Content, Staffing
Leadership to Navigate Challenging Times
While the COVID-19 crisis has caught many of us off-guard and feeling underprepared, this situation can be seen in business as an opportunity for brand resilience and strategy— with the right leadersh...
Content
The Way Forward: Online Content with Integrity
What is your favorite online communication tool? What posts or articles have brought you the most success?
Content
From Anxiety to Resiliency
We design solutions that turn into sales and save your money. We're a digital agency, focused on user experience design, digital marketing solutions, website design, and SEO. Digital strategy focused ...
Marketing
Transitioning to a Thriving E-commerce Economy
This is a moment where many businesses must pivot to online sales to stay viable. If you’re in the position of needing to transition quickly to an online marketplace, we have a few helpful suggestions...
Marketing
Don't be left behind,optimize now!
How long has it been since you updated your website? We give you some recommendations that can really improve your digital presence.
Marketing, Content, UX/UI Design
UX & E-commerce: Connection, Emotion & Problem Solving
Good UX isn’t just about a sleek site or app, especially when it comes to e-commerce. Learn more about how to engage with your clients in the e-commerce space.
UX/UI Design
Empathic UX
You’ve got to face it, humans bonding with technology is a common thing these days. Because of this, an emphatic UX design that considers the people using that technology can prove to be a game changer.
Marketing, Content, Development
What is Headless CMS? — Simplifying Content Channels
Technology is advancing rapidly with content distribution in mind, now we can manage content on multiple platforms from one system: welcome to the world of headless CMS. You can think of it as a conte...
Development
4 Reasons Software Testing Is Important
You’ve heard software testing is an important part of the development process for a new app or any other type of software. But why should you invest in quality assurance and testing? Why not just buil...
UX/UI Design
Tools for a Remote UX Design Process
Are you working remotely as a UX designer? If so, you have probably found that there are many advantages of working remotely; you can dictate your own hours, you can work from anywhere in the world, a...
Marketing
Focusing on Omnichannel Marketing
Connecting with your clients and would-be-clients where they are is a critical component to marketing. Any marketing strategy worth its weight will leverage more than just one outlet or resource to am...
Marketing, Development
How AI in Email Marketing Can Help You Boost Your Sales
The email marketing landscape is constantly evolving thanks to technological developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. Email campaigns are becoming more personalized, more relevan...
Content
How to Choose The Right Digital Marketing Agency for Your Business
With many choices of content marketing staffing agencies to choose from, it’s hard to know which one is the best for your business, whether you’re looking for a b2b content marketing source or direct-...
UX/UI Design
What Is UX Design?
What is User Experience (UX) design? Since you’re reading this blog, you’re likely familiar with the words but curious about what the term UX really means, and more importantly— how can it help your b...
Content, Development
How to choose your Headless CMS Best?
With a shift to digital marketing driven by informative content, business is investing in content creation to grow its audiences, establish its expertise, and ultimately drive conversions. But content...
Staffing
What is Project Management and what can it do for your business?
Project management is an important piece of any organization’s ability to accomplish its goals and objectives. But what does it really mean?
UX/UI Design
How to Choose the Best UX Design Agency
Selecting a user experience (UX) design agency is an important choice that will impact the success of a product and the business. You want to choose the best UX agency for your needs. And while there ...
Content
6 Tips to Improve Your Copywriting for More Conversions
Good copy is the backbone of effective brand communication. In this article, we’ll explore how conversions can be improved with skillful copywriting.
Development
Data Architecture Services: How to Make the Most of Your Data
The vast amounts of data available and collected have only continued to grow rapidly. Terms like data lakes and cloud systems have made clear the need for storage of data. This growth in data has fuel...
UX/UI Design
Everything You Need to Know About User Interface (UI) Design and How to Choose the Right UI Partner
In this guide we’ll explore what user interface (UI) design is, its uses and benefits, what UI developers do and how to find the right UI partner for your project or business.
Marketing
The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing: Onshoring, Offshoring, and Nearshoring
You know you want to hire a partner to help out with your software development project. But you don’t know where to find the best value, high-quality work, and strong relationships. Should you offshor...
Development, Nearshore
What is nearshore development? The complete guide
What is nearshore development exactly? To answer that question, we must first tackle outsourcing. Over the past decades organizations have begun to hire third parties to conduct essential business fun...
Nearshore
Top Nearshore Software Development Destinations for US companies
Deciding to outsource software development is a big decision that involves careful consideration. There are unknown variables and risks involved in sending work outside of the country. However, usuall...
UX/UI Design
6 Best Practices for UI Design
When it comes to user interface principles and best practices, there are some definitive things to be aware of that will make for an award-winning design. User interface (UI) design is a unique form o...
