Category: Marketing

Internet privacy

Internet Privacy – What We Give

Recently the world was shocked by the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal where a data scientist created a survey that gave him access to the personal data of millions of Facebook users and all their friends, then sold that data to a huge company which used it to sway voter opinion during presidential elections.  That event brought a lot of attention on the subject of Internet privacy, an important issue which many of us ignore because deep down...

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Design, Trust & Manipulation – How Businesses Abuse the Power of UX

If you’re anything like me, good website design immediately instills a sense of trust in you and bad design raises red flags. If I go to a website and see big blocks of small text in weird fonts, ad clutter and an overall unappealing layout, I immediately get a feeling that something isn’t right, even before I take a look at the content.  Something about bad design causes an immediate visceral recoil and can make...

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Neuromarketing – Marketing Tactics Based on Psychology Research

Have you ever visited a website and seen a “Sign Up” or “Download” button at the bottom of the page that looked so well-designed and appealing that you just HAD to push it?  Now compare that to the small, uninteresting buttons on websites just a few years ago with their suspicious Times New Roman fonts and their caveman-esque WordArt shading.  The reason why advertising and marketing has become so much more stylish and effective these...