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Here on Design Chatter, we post the latest and greatest about KEYLAY, helpful industry information, creative design ideas, small business need-to-knows and the occasional off the wall post just to lighten your day. We hope you enjoy, and we encourage you to comment and share the posts on your social networks!

New Clue!

Jan 11, 2023

Well-timed with the recent success of the whodunnit movie Glass Onion, Hasbro has redesigned and updated the classic board game Clue! The fan favorite has been updated not only visually, but also in game play, character backstories…and possible motives to the murder of Boddy Black. This is a very cool visual revitalization of a time-honored classic game to make it more accessible to modern players, with the new characters now skewing younger, and more importantly, diverse.

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Static vs. GIFs images: What do customers want to see in their inbox?

Jan 11, 2023

Studies show that people’s attention span online has steadily decreased over the past 20 years. Marketers must work harder to keep audiences interested, especially with email.

With so many companies vying for people’s limited attention, the type of imagery used in emails impacts a campaign’s effectiveness and people’s perception of the brand. The question becomes: When does it make sense to use static imagery versus animated gifs?

How people read emails

People aren’t reading online.

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Data visualization design best practices to make decision-making easier

Jan 11, 2023

Organizing data is a special skill. When done well, people can understand exactly what your numbers mean and the story you want to tell. However, when you don’t put your audience front and center, it doesn’t matter how pretty the charts look, the information will be useless because you aren’t telling a visual story that makes sense.

By incorporating design best practices into your data visualizations, you can transform complex information into insights people understand.

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The Biggest Movie Star You’ve Never Heard Of

Jan 06, 2023

Have you ever heard of a title designer? Well, even if you haven’t, there is no way you haven’t seen their work: these designers who create the titles and accompanying visual hallmarks of films. This interview with Dan Perri takes you into the mind of one of the best. Responsible for the title design of Raging Bull, The Exorcist, and the beyond-iconic opening title crawl of Star Wars. Just like design for any other medium, films have a lot of information that has to be shown,

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Best Magazine Cover Roundup: 2022 Edition

Jan 04, 2023

We made it to 2023, guys! And what better way to get the creative juices flowing after a holiday break than to check out what worked best in 2022, and carry that success forward. Creative Review has rounded up the best in magazine covers from 2022. Covers are obviously the first impression a publication can give, so the graphic design involved is usually held to the highest quality, and it’s safe to say these specimens delivered.

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WB Celebrates 100 Years with, Appropriately, an Animated Logo

Dec 23, 2022

Warner Brothers is turning 100! In April of 2023, WB turns the big 1-0-0, and they’ve got a commemorative logo to put them all to shame. The animated logo features the WB shield mark that we all know so well, and a stylized “100” that acts as a backdrop, foil, and plot point to a host of WB favorites over the years. There are appearances from Batman, Wyle E. Coyote, Harry Potter, Bugs Bunny…the list is lengthy!

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