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My Agile Sketching Experiment

Between September and October of 2022, because the COVID pandemic put my contracts on hold for a few months, I set a personal challenge to create and share 100 agile-related sketches on Twitter. In October 2020, after posting an average of four drawings a day, I completed that challenge. Because I no longer use Twitter, … Continue reading My Agile Sketching Experiment →

Malcolm Bastien Sketches Leave a comment May 18, 2023May 19, 2023 6 Minutes

Success for the Mobile Context

A diagram showing how helping users accomplish their goals in mobile leads to success

The mobile context, where at any given time, for any given reason users will want to do something on their phones or with your app. Your job is to set users up for success. There are a few established ways to achieve that including keeping your app focused, the UI clean, and the language simple. … Continue reading Success for the Mobile Context →

Malcolm Bastien Sketches Leave a comment October 12, 2012May 29, 2023 1 Minute

The Social Story of a Brand

A diagram of a brand's social story and how it affects and is affected by people, but not the brand it represents.

It’s impossible for a brand to affect its social story, it can only impact consumers. It’s consumers who contribute to the social story through the experiences they have with a brand, and with 3rd party interactions like the things they see in the news, or the things they hear from friends. The power of the … Continue reading The Social Story of a Brand →

Malcolm Bastien Sketches Leave a comment October 11, 2012May 29, 2023 1 Minute

The Reason for Innovation

For a while i had a hard time figuring out what the whole point of insights and innovation was for on the part of digital strategy. In the end I’ve come to understand that innovative marketing strategies help achieve substantially better results. The simplicity of this graph and how ugly it is makes me feel like … Continue reading The Reason for Innovation →

Malcolm Bastien Sketches Leave a comment October 4, 2012May 29, 2023 1 Minute

Research & Insights Into Stories

Stories have their place even at the very beginning of marketing strategy, and a lof of the work from research and analysis should very much be thought about and be shared with others as stories. Story Telling for User Experience made these ideas clear for me. Stories play two roles in making finding exceptionally easy … Continue reading Research & Insights Into Stories →

Malcolm Bastien Design Leave a comment October 4, 2012May 29, 2023 1 Minute

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