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Cryptonovae Pricing Plan

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ADLEGIT — PRICING PLAN

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Daily UI practise. Price plan exploration, playing with blue color. feel free to post comments and feedback.

Pricing Plan - Saas Admin UI Kit

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Top 13 Pricing Plan Pages Examples

How to design a pricing page (13 examples)The options you give the user will ultimately decide whether they buy your product or not. Let’s take a look at some inspiring UX writing and pricing page design examples that can help to optimize your pricing page and increase conversions.Pricing is one of the most important elements on the screenBack in the day, I planned the UX of a crucial pricing page for Sodastream, one of the biggest e-commerce stores that has come out of Israel. During this time, I looked at a zillion different pricing pages, and it was critical for me to find the most relevant examples.What pricing model should I chose?!The pricing plan we created actually challenged the business model of the company as a whole, offering a completely different business strategy — instead of one-time offers, we would switch to subscriptions of the products. So even though it was “only” a design and writing decision, it had an impact worth billions of dollars. When the company was sold later in the year, we published the website for more than $3B.Pricing pages are the places where the users ultimately decide whether they should pay for your product or not. When done right, it will increase the revenue of your organization. On top of this, it can give you a mahoosive indicator of who your clients, customers and users are.So what features make a pricing page stand out? If you are going to build or update a pricing page, or if you’re just into , and content strategy in general, here are my top 12 pricing page examples!Note: The UX Writing Hub and the author of the article is not affiliated with any of the brands below.1. TunnelBear — smart illustrationsAre you a cub or a grizzly bear? VPN services TunnelBear uses illustrations of bears to show you their different pricing plans. Simple but effective, and totally in line with their brand.Buy TunnelBear VPN with Credit Card, Bitcoin2. HubSpot’s price calculatorIf you’re new to tech, it can be hard to understand what HubSpot does. It’s also hard to work out a budget for their CRM services since they offer so many different plans.That’s why they decided to create a price calculator — a smart move for pricing pages with lots of alternatives.Marketing Software Pricing | HubSpot3. Teamdeck — a playful calculatorCalculators have become a staple on SaaS businesses’ pricing pages-they’re helpful when you offer a lot of alternatives. Teamdeck is based on a pay-per-seat model, so your ultimate price tag depends on the number of people you onboard to your app, and what roles you pick for them.The calculator is in line with Teamdeck’s marine-themed branding.As you increase the number of seats in your plan, the accompanying illustration evolves as well: from a small fishing boat to a sleek yacht and finally a cruise ship. Interacting with the calculator is engaging and allows people to learn about Teamdeck’s pricing model without it feeling like a chore.Teamdeck - pricing that suits your company's needs4. G Suite — clearly indicate the best dealA smart way to funnel a user towards a specific path is to simply highlight it. Google’s G Suite indicates clearly which deal gives the best possible value.Pricing Plans | G Suite5. Zapier — free trialsIf you want to convert users fast, be sure to give them a free option.Mailchimp has been doing this for years (the first 2K emails are free) and now Zapier does it too.Zapier is a great little tool that connects different apps and accounts you use regularly and helps you to automate simple actions. As you can see in the image below, they even go further and let you try all available plans without paying a cent.Plans & Pricing6. Webflow — use first, pay laterAllowing users to create sophisticated websites without code, Webflow has been hailed as the go-to future tool for web development.They understand that you are much more likely to pay for a plan once you have a web project up and running — and that’s why they allow you to use the tool for free until you are ready to launch. Genius.Plans & pricing | Webflow7. Simplecast — good variety of plansAs a newbie podcaster (shoutout to the Writers in Tech podcast ), Simplecast’s podcast hosting services have been fantastic. It was important for me to know that there is a plan for every podcaster.Features & Pricing8. Zoom — informative tooltipsMy favorite part about the video communication tool Zoom’s pricing options is the super-informative tooltips that appear when hovering over the information icon. A great way to explain every aspect of the products and leave no doubts.9. Invision — authentic feel and cool detailsWhile it is clear from Invision’s pricing page that they target enterprise clients, the “most popular” indication gives the page an authentic feel. The save 10% doodles arrow is another nice touch — a small detail like this can make a big differencehttps://www.invisionapp.com/plans10. Trello — be nice to new usersSay hello to Sir Trello, son of Atlassian and brother of Jira. This task management tool clearly focuses on collaborative efforts and teams, and perhaps that’s why the pricing page is very kind to new solo users. In fact, their free trial is so generous that I never had the chance to pay them (does that make me a bad team player?).https://trello.com/en-US/pricing11. Spotify — offer unbeatable valueIsn’t the best way to persuade people to pay simply to offer great value in relation to the price? Spotify had me at “no ad interruptions”, others may be persuaded to hit the green button by the Listen online or High audio quality options.https://www.spotify.com//premium/12. Jira — affordable plans and pricing calculatorBig brother’s turn. The ultimate project management tool for developers pricing page has a fancy pricing calculator and super-affordable plans.https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing13. Adobe creative suite — plans for clearly defined usersAdobe understands that if you’re on their pricing page, you are probably familiar with their apps already. They suggest different tracks not just based on groups (individuals, businesses, schools etc.) but also on your professional needs (designer, photographer, video editor and so on).The awesome part is that this pricing page is a reincarnation of their earlier business model, in which you’ve had to buy each software separately. Yikes.https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.htmlThat’s it for now!Pricing pages are the bread and butter of an online business. Use them wisely, test and optimize them. Play around with different copy and design elements and track your conversion rates.If you want to create fantastic pricing pages, try our free UX writing course!Edited by Anja WedbergOf course, there are tons more pricing pages out there worth sharing — what’s your favorite and why?Originally published at http://uxwritinghub.com on January 19, 2020.Top 13 Pricing Plan Pages Examples was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Web/Domain Hosting Pricing Plan UI

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Mobile Pricing Plan Illustrations

Updated the mobile plans to bring back in all the beautiful illustrations the @[414979:Unfold] team originally did for the first iteration of the pricing page, along with a new one for the new GoFundMe tier. Props to @[946315:Ted Kulakevich ] @[14268:Eddie Lobanovskiy] @[1461762:Lana Marandina] @[1853242:Victor Korchuk] on all the illustrations here.

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WIP Pricing Comparison Chart

Work in progress of an update to the pricing page. The 4th offering has created some interesting challenges in how to showcase this information and really communicate the differences between each offering. I felt that the table comparison alleviates any struggle when determining the right plan for the nonprofit org. Still making tweaks, but liking where this is heading.

Daily UI: Pricing

Pricing for a software subscription with 3 options: free trial for 7 days, personal plan for 1 month and bussiness plan for 1 month.

Plan Cards

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Pricing Refresh - Contractbook

Hey! 👋We gave our Contractbook Pricing page a refresh recently. ✨ From now on, we: 👉 Symbolise what kind of fit various plans are for a user (company-size-wise, through brief text) to make plans more understandable at a glance. We list 3 core values for each plan that make differentiating them easier (# of contracts per month, # of custom templates etc.) 👉List an entire feature rundown to allow users to compare the plans, so that it’s easier for them to understand what the differences are & which plan they should pick to better fit their business needs 👉Have a FAQ section, responding to questions our potential customers often have 👉Include testimonials from companies using given plans to introduce more context. This allows users to relate to certain plans easier 👉For "Teams" & "Enterprise", we include a calculator that helps come up with a price estimate, based on the size of the business Hope you like it! Our Facebook | Our LinkedIn

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Article: Wix Pricing

Wix is a seasoned online website builder. In this article I dissect Wix pricing including a few FAQs at the bottom. Pricing Highlights: The Wix Free plan allows one free website build on a wixsite.com subdomain but has fairly obtrusive Wix branding in the header and footer. The Wix Combo plan allows for a custom […]

Kontist Premium Plan

A new pricing page to accommodate our recently-launched premium plan.

Enterprise Plan Mobile

Mobile comp for the new plan information pages for customers on www.crowdrise.com so that they can learn a little more about each of the offerings from the 4 available plans. We were able to carry over the story of a growing organization through a series of illustrations for these pages. Learn more about that here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4935267-Pricing-Page-Illustrations-Story

Premium Plan

Recently launched the new plan information pages for customers on www.crowdrise.com so that they can learn a little more about each of the offerings from the 4 available plans. Loving the top hero illustration by @[946315:Ted Kulakevich ] . We were able to carry over the story of a growing organization through a series of illustrations for these pages. Learn more about that here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4935267-Pricing-Page-Illustrations-Story

Top 8 Data Visualization Tools for UX Designers in 2022

Data visualization helps to present data visually to users and internal stakeholders, which will reveal previously unseen patterns. This article shares with you the top 8 data visualization tools to empower your UX design and business.Today, we are living in a world where everything revolves around data. Without data, no business can achieve its goal. A good presentation of information is becoming more and more important in the modern web world as the content of the Internet becomes more complex and data-driven. Therefore, in order to keep the visitor’s interest, web designers need to be on top of their visualization game when using a prototyping tool to present data visually to users and internal stakeholders.In this article, we will explore what data visualization is, why designers need to use it, and also share with you the 8 best data visualization tools that empower your businesses to recognize trends, conduct analyses, make informed decisions, and set realistic goals. Now, let’s dive in.What is data visualization?By definition, data visualization is the practice of translating information into a visual context, such as in a pictorial or graphical format to make data easier to be understood. It is an element of the broader data presentation architecture (DPA) discipline, which aims to identify, locate, manipulate, format and deliver data in the most efficient way possible. If designers efficiently use data visualization, the difficult concepts or new patterns in their design can be easily grasped, which could certainly help to improve the user experience and enhance its conversion rate.Why to use data visualization in your UX design？As the “age of Big Data” kicks into high-gear, UX designers have access to more data than ever before. This is great when it comes to product development, but UX designers need to ensure that they get real insights from the data glut. A good visualization tells a story, removing the noise from data and highlighting useful information. It can help designers grab visitors’ interest and keep their eyes on the message. If visitors see a chart, they quickly see trends and outliers. If visitors see a massive spreadsheet of data and couldn’t see a trend, the user experience can greatly deteriorate.Alt: Premade chart components from Mockplus help simplify your data visualization.All in all, data visualization can be beneficial for UX Designers in two main ways:Data visualization helps to improve the design process: UX designers need to conduct user research and collect data before creating a product design, data visualization can help them get a clearer user persona, thus creating a design that suits the user better;Data visualization helps to improve the user experience:the most stunning visualization could utterly fail at conveying the right message or it could speak volumes, thus the information can be easily understood and grasped, which could certainly help to improve the user experience and enhance its conversion rate.Once data is visualized and contextualized into journey maps, infographics and charts, designers can start to prototype solutions. Luckily, if you choose a prototyping tool like Mockplus, it can allow you to incorporate real user data into your prototypes!Top 8 data visualization tools for UX DesignersThere are a lot of data visualization tools out there to help UX designers get a handle on the information. Choosing them for your products or websites can be a daunting task. Here we will share with you 10 of the best data visualization tools, hope you can get the one that meets your needs. Now let’s check the list.DatawrapperDataWrapper is a data visualization tool for creating charts, maps and tables. It is an easy-to-use tool that almost anyone can create charts, tables, graphs, and more, without possessing any software or design skills. It is also an excellent choice for data visualizations for news sites and journalists often use it to embed live charts into their news articles.Key features:It has an easy and simplified UI;It does require code or design skills;It offers print-ready graphics;It is compatible with all operating systems;It provides 20 chart types, maps, and tables that include search and heatmaps;It allows team collaboration with Slack integration and admin permissions;Its visualizations can be exported as PNG, SVG, and PDF.Pricing:Datawrapper is free for designing some basic charts. Its plan starts at $599 per month and Enterprise pricing is upon request.2. Google ChartsGoogle Chart is a powerful freemium data visualization tool for browsers and mobile devices.If you prefer data visualization tools used on search engines, this is the right thing. It can also give you more control over the charts you create and will enable you to zoom the charts.Key features:It is simple to learn and user-friendly;It is easy to embed the chart on your web page by using JavaScript;It allows access to data from most data sources, including third-party data providers;It is easy to integrate with additional Google tools and products;It offers a wide variety of chart formats;It is cross-browser compatible and highly interactive.Pricing:Google Charts is completely free of charge.3. TableauTableau is one of the most popular data visualization tools on the market among non-developers. It is very easy to use but incredibly powerful. It offers both solid support and sample visualizations that help newbies get going. The public version of Tableau is free to use for anyone looking for a powerful way to create data visualizations that can be used in a variety of settings.Key features:It has hundreds of data import options;It provides lots of video tutorials to walk you through how to use Tableau;It provides extensive options to secure data without scripting;It allows you to perform data blending easily;Teams can perform real-time analysis of their data on Tableau;It offers JavaScript extensions and APIs for custom reports via JavaScript charting libraries;It comes with different versions, such as the Tableau server, cloud, and desktop.Pricing:Tableau provides a 14-day free trial but the free version doesn’t allow you to keep data analyses private. It offers different plans for individuals and organizations. The paid plans start from $15 per user/month and range up to $70 per user/month.4. InfogramInfogram is a great option for non-designers as well as designers. The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to create professional-looking designs without a lot of visual design skills. With real-time permissions and version history, it allows entire teams to work on a project in real time. What’s more, it’s easy to use and any member of the team can tell an engaging story in just a few clicks without having to know the code.Key features:It offers lots of ready-to-use templates;It provides interactive charts and maps that include links, tabs, tooltips, and clickable legends;It has an extensive library of icons and photos to create stunning visuals;Its responsive infographics that look neat on all devices and on most social media;It has powerful analytics that tracks user activity on a website.Pricing:Infogram offers users a free version, but it has limited capabilities. Paid plans start at $19 for Personal plans and go as high as $149 for Enterprise plans.5. PlotlyPlotly is another data visualization tool that lets you create presentations, charts, and dashboards. It helps designers to create and steward the leading open-source data visualization and app-building libraries for ML, data science, engineering, and the sciences.Key features:It is web-based and easy to use;It has a substantial number of chart design options;It is easy to import data and create amazing graphics with the help of their visualization library and online chart creation tool;It has built-in software that lets you analyze your data using Excel, Javascript or Matlab;Pricing:Potly offers users a free version, but it has limited capabilities. If you submit your personal information to its website, you can get a customized paid plan.6. SisenseSisense is a business intelligence tool for creating data visualizations that help your business to gain insights. It is specially created to visualize large amounts of data. The platform also helps designers or business owners create their own dashboards according to their needs.Key features:It allows deploy your work on the cloud using Windows or Linux;It filters data by dropping fields on the canvas;It is very flexible and allows for easy customization;Users can export data to CSV, PDF, Excel, Images and other formats;It allows users to export files in multiple formats such as PPT, Excel, MS Word, PDF, etc.Pricing:If you are interested in this tool, you need to schedule a call with the Sales team who will understand the requirements and make a custom model based on them.7. ChartBlocksChartBlocks is another quick and easy data visualization tool, which allows you to combine data from multiple sources into one comprehensive graphic. Charts with ChartBlocks are hosted with D3.js, and are fully responsive to share on any platform and to view on any device.Key features:It is fully customizable, and can be adjusted to fit brand guidelines or a project’s color palette;The data for its charts can be imported from spreadsheets or SQL, or entered manually;It is easy to use and its learning curve isn’t steep;It was integrated with Ceros and it is an interactive content creation tool.Pricing:ChartBlocks offers a free plan that allows up to 50 active charts, which is perfect for beginners. The paid plans go up to $65/month with additional features like API integration and live data polling.8. D3.jsD3.js is another data visualization tool, which allows you to manipulate elements of a webpage in the context of a data set. It also offers rare functions such as curve-generation, associating data with an HTML element, and code reusability.Key features:It is very powerful and extremely flexible;It supports large datasets and has huge number of chart types;It supports the visualization of HTML, CSS, and SVG data;It helps you with Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation.Pricing:For individuals, its pricing starts from $ 7 per user/month. For a team with an organization account, D3.js pricing starts from $ 9 per user/month.Wrap upThe enlisted data visualization tools above are great and cover several possible purposes and use cases. Just spend some time exploring the various available options then choose the one best for your business. As UX designers, you need to rely on data to make important decisions throughout the UX design and development process and these tools can help you make a better design. However, if you want to have a design that suits your clients’ requirements best, you can choose Mockplus, which provides bar charts, radar charts, column charts and etc, efficiently getting your data visualized on screen and optimizing the way you design!Other related articles:Top 16 Responsive Website Design Tools for Design BeginnersTop 25 User Flow Tools & Templates for Smooth UX10 Best UI Animation Tools for Great Modern Designs in 2020Top 8 Data Visualization Tools for UX Designers in 2022 was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Happy Monday, Here's another sweet illustration for Crowdrise. This is illustrating the pricing model starting with small pricing plan. I will upload another shot showing the progress in pricing. Stay tuned and as always let me know what you think. Cheers!

15 Best Professional Web Design Software in 2022

Are you looking for the best professional web design software to make beautiful websites? In this article, we will share with you the 15 best web design softwares for different use-cases, including those for building websites, UX/UI design and graphic design. Now let’s dive in.Best web design software for building websites1. WordPressWordPress is a free and open-source software that can help you create a website in minutes. It offers the best combination of flexibility, power, and ease-of-use necessary to build and launch content-based websites. More than 40% of all websites run on WordPress, making it the most popular Content Management System around the globe. WordPress offers you many built-in optimizations and responsive, mobile-ready themes, you can change anything in a theme like its colors, text, background, and images to fit your needs. It is very easy to use and you can easily publish content in the blink of an eye.Pricing: WordPress offers a free plan. Its paid plans start at $15/month.2. WixWix is a platform that gives you the freedom to create, design, manage and develop your web presence exactly the way you want. It is much like WordPress, which can be used to create a variety of different sites, including blogs and stores. It is an all-in-one website builder and very friendly to those who have no design or coding experience. By using its drag-and-drop editor, you can simply set up and launch your site in just a few minutes. You can also collaborate with other designers by assigning multiple roles.Pricing: Wix offers affordable plans for those who are not on a large budget. Its paid plans start at $16 per month and include ad removal, increased bandwidth, and additional space for videos.3. Web.comWeb.com is best for providing designers with complete web design services in one location. It uses a drag-and-drop interface, making it easy to add and rearrange elements on your pages. You can easily get started by choosing your domain, picking a package, and then dragging and dropping your website design. With its nice list of templates to choose from, you can get your website up and running even faster. Their support is excellent and gets their professional help when and as soon as you need it.Pricing: Its paid plans start at just $5.95 per month and then $10 per month after that.4. WebflowWebflow is a new, popular all-in-one responsive web design platform that provides an online visual editor platform to design, build, and launch websites. It provides customers a master component library of core layouts, components, and patterns. By using Webflow, you can link movement and animation on your design page to the cursor position to grab user attention. Plus, Webflow enables you to collaborate with other professionals by inviting multiple editors to work on the same website while keeping track of the work.Pricing: Webflow offers a forever-free plan with all the essential web design features. Its paid plans start at $12 per month.5. WeeblyWeebly’s powerful drag and drop website builder and guided set up get you to finsih your website building faster, with no coding needed. It offers many fully customizable themes to ensure you never compromise on design requirements. What’s more, it has a built-in Design Management system, helping you easily save your designs and edits by marking them as templates for future use. The older designs in other projects can also be reused many times.After you finish your design, you can get your pages previewed in real-time, so you can see exactly what your visitors will see.Pricing: It offers a free plan for basic use. Its paid plans start at $5 per month for connecting a custom domain.Best web design software for prototyping and UI/UX6. MockplusMockplus is a simple and quick prototyping tool with rich and comprehensive interface design components and icon libraries. With a simple drag-and-drop, you can build interactive prototypes effortlessly with Mockplus.It has the feature of a responsive layout, helping you adjust, and scale your vision to fit any screen or layout automatically. More than that, you can upload different designs from Figma, Sketch, PS and more to make it a clickable one. You can also collaborate with your team members and do the handoff work online. In a word, Mockplus has everything your product teams need to prototype, design, collaborate and hand off in one place.Pricing: Free. Paid plans start at $5.95 per user/month.7. MarvelMarvel offers rapid prototyping, testing and handoff for modern design teams. Its simple and intuitive design and prototyping tool enables you to wireframe, design and prototype fast. Marvel provides users a huge collection of pre-made assets, images and icons for iOS and Android apps. By using it, your static mockups can be made into interactive prototypes in a few minutes, all online. What’s more, it instantly generates design specs and connects integrations that power up your workflow. However, its free version lacks many features, while the paid version is somewhat costly.Pricing: Free. Paid plans start at $12 per month.8. Proto.ioProto.io helps to bring your idea to life in no time. If you are a beginner designer and developer, Proto.io may be the ideal choice for your project, because it is a simple tool that lets you build clickable prototypes with ease. Its intuitive, drag & drop interface gives you all the building blocks that you need to get started. You can use its timeline feature to create cool animations to show the flow of your app across different screens. With a huge variety of ready-made and fully-customizable templates for web and mobile, your design work can be much easier with Proto.io. But the price is seen as somewhat costly on the user’s side.Pricing: Paid plans start at $24 per month.9. InvisionInvision is a web-based platform that makes your product team collaborate better, align faster, and move forward together in a real-time workspace built for the future of work. Its Invision Studio is a new platform for designers, on which you can design, prototype, and animate. Its layout makes it easy to import wireframes and organize them in your respective user flows. It is also really great for early stage designing and user testing, and produces a low/mid-fidelity prototype for mobile or desktop. Its collaboration features enable others to follow a link to your prototype and insert comments as they click through your prototype on their own devices. However, the performance of both the web and mobile app is often lacking and navigation can be rather laggy.Pricing: Free. Paid plans start at $7.95 per user/month10. FigmaFigma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool that is used by more and more UX/UI designers. It focuses on user interface design and user experience design, with an emphasis on real-time collaboration among designers. Figma’s frames are super flexible and help designers prototype projects more easily, and the projects can be shared through a link without much complications. It also provides numerous templates and plugins, allowing you to acheive what you want. However, it does not have many resources like components or icons and is backed by a considerably small community at the moment.Pricing: Free. Paid plans start at $12 per editor/ month.Best graphic design softwares11. Adobe IllustratorAdobe Illustrator is one of the best graphic design softwares for you to choose if you work with logos, icons, sketches, or any other type of visual design. It has the feature of real-time drawing and editing, making you draw, move, scale, and rotate an object in real-time. What makes it unique is its in-panel editing, enabling designers to edit multiple artboards simultaneously and function more efficiently. By using Adobe Illustrator, you can get access to over 90 million images, graphics, templates, and videos from Adobe Stock. Thousands of fonts are available for you to select to implement the most suitable font for your project. What’s more, it is highly compatible with numerous devices that have different configurations from Mac and Windows. Unfortunately, it is costlier in comparison to other vector-based graphic design tools.Pricing: Adobe Illustrator offers a monthly subscription of US$20.99.12. Affinity DesignerIf you are not on a large budget, you can choose Affinity Designer, a clean, capable and cost-effective alternative for Adobe Illustrator. It is suitable for beginners as it is easy to learn and use. It has many outstanding features, including a versatile grid system, which enables designers to set up grids while creating isometric video game graphics and icons. Another feature is its Snapping Option which allows designers to lock and position objects and elements depending on multiple things, like grids, alignment guides, shapes, and etc. Plus, users can apply their work on one project to multiple numbers of artboards.Pricing: It costs $54.99 to buy one on desktop or $21.99 on an iPad.13. SketchSketch is a vector-based graphic design software that can be used for app, web, and interface design only on Mac. It has a minimal interface and requires a low learning curve, making it easy to get started. Its key feature allows objects to resize according to the content automatically, ensuring perfect responsive design/multiple screen sizes and resolutions. Designers love it for it can autosaves all the changes in the design step by step to avoid any loss of design. Designers can also choose from its library of artboard templates for iOS devices to get started. After the design is completed, you can share and collaborate with your team through the cloud to get their real-time feedback.Pricing: Its yearly subscription costs $9 per editor, monthly.14. Gravit DesignerGravit Designer is an HTML-based graphic design software that helps to deliver high-quality vector graphics. It has a clean and intuitive interface and can be used to do most design jobs, from icon design and prototyping to vector illustration and animation. Its dashboard is easy to navigate and allows designers to switch between the tabs or switch dark themes instantly with ease. Several tools are offered by Gravit Designer, including the Bezigon tool, Lasso tools, and Pen tool, which allows users to add multiple files to an element. But you can not get real-time feedback from your team after the design is finished.Pricing: Free. Its paid plans cost $59.99 yearly.15. CanvaCanva is the best free app for graphic design and it is available at Web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Whether you are a beginner or professional, you can create complex art projects with Canva in minutes. By using Canva, you can easily change your text, fonts, layouts, and colors for your project and also edit in real-time with your teammates from any device. For now, you can add speech bubbles to your images with a simple drag and drop. In a word, Canva can meet designers’ different graphic requirements, from designing creative ad copy to graphic design and visual art.Pricing： Free. Paid plans start at $9.99 per month.ConclusionBuilding for designing a website could never be an easy task. With the best design software in hand, your time and effort can be greatly saved. However, not all of them can help to achieve the exact design requirements. Therefore, you need to check their features one by one to identify which tool can meet your business requirements. Hope any software in this article can help you be more productive and creative for your next design project.15 Best Professional Web Design Software in 2022 was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Plan Selector

Saw this amazing concept by @[124059:Virgil Pana] along with the available GitHub repo by @[25514:Ramotion] and thought it would be really cool to incorporate a tool to help nonprofits choose the right CrowdRise by GoFundMe plan for them by moving the tool around to select their online fundraising goal on our pricing page. Ultimately, ended up getting scrapped due to some HubSpot limitations, but still a fan of the idea. Xcode version implemented by @[25514:Ramotion] and made open-source: https://github.com/Ramotion/fluid-slider

Essential Plan Mobile

Mobile comp for the new plan information pages for customers on www.crowdrise.com so that they can learn a little more about each of the offerings from the 4 available plans. We were able to carry over the story of a growing organization through a series of illustrations for these pages. Learn more about that here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4935267-Pricing-Page-Illustrations-Story

Enterprise Plan

Newly launched Enterprise Plan information pages for customers on www.crowdrise.com so that they can learn a little more about each of the offerings from the 4 available plans. Loving the top hero illustration by @Ted Kulakevich . We were able to carry over the story of a growing organization through a series of illustrations for these pages. Learn more about that here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4935267-Pricing-Page-Illustrations-Story

Best Al Marketing Tools 2024 – Let’s Boost Your Campaigns

In the past few years, AI’s impact has increased daily. No industry that doesn’t involve AI technology in its business is left behind. Artificial intelligence certainly helps to make the job easy. Now, this revolution has also changed the marketing industry.  Nowadays, digital marketers can work smartly and effectively with AI. However, there are tons of AI marketing tools which makes it challenging to choose the right one. But don’t worry. We have done the hard part of the research for you and made a list of the top 5 best AI marketing tools.  Read till the end and find a suitable AI tool for your business. Top AI Marketing Tools to Elevate Your Strategy in 2024 We have researched different AI marketing tools. After our review, we have made a list of the top 5 marketing tools here. Let’s find out the best from the rest for promoting campaigns. 1. Jasper AI – Best for Content Creation Jasper AI is a powerful AI tool that helps marketers, business owners, and content creators create high-quality content. This AI tool helps in writing blogs, emails, social media, and website content. It was initially named Jarvis, inspired by Tony Stark’s AI assistant from Marvel.  Additionally, Jarvis was an important character in Iron Man movies, so they sent a cease and desist letter to the. After that, they came up with a new AI assistant called Jasper AI. Let’s find out its key features. Key Features of Jasper AI: It helps in emails and marketing campaigns Helps in copywriting and blog writing It has an AI image suite feature for editing images for web and media Write product descriptions Help in building a brand voice Generate marketing campaigns Support 80+ languages Generate optimized content Pricing: It offers a free 7-day trial period.  For Creators – $39/monthly For Pro – $59/monthly After that, you need to get a subscription plan.  However, it offers a custom plan as well. Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 2. Surfer SEO – Best for SEO Optimization In the list of five AI marketing tools of AIChief, Surfer SEO comes at the second number. It is a content optimization AI tool that helps you optimize your content on Google’s first page. You can create a content outline and do keyword research before writing an article through Surfer SEO.  Moreover, after writing, this AI tool can check your article on all aspects like keyword density, length, headings formats, readability, and AI detection. So, the article can rank better and be ranked on Google. However, you can work on its platform directly as it has an editor option. So you can edit your content while writing. It also has a paraphrase feature to humanize your content. Lastly, it is also integrated with other AI marketing tools like Jasper, Google Docs, WordPress, and many more for content creation. Key Features of Surfer SEO Helps in content optimization Checks keyword density & AI detection from content. Paraphrasing Feature for humanize content Generate Content Outline Provides Competitor Analysis Report Supports multilingual languages Pricing: The essential Plan starts at $99/ month.  Scaling Plan starts at $219/month.  It gives a 7-day money-back guarantee. Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 3. Optimove – Best for Customer Data Management It is one of the best tools for managing and building relationships with customers. This AI tool studies customers’ data and predictive analytics in order to promote customized marketing campaigns.  Moreover, Marketers can design customizable customer journeys with Optimove. This will modify each customer’s unique behavior and response, resulting in unique experiences for every consumer and improving engagement and loyalty.  Key Features of Seventh Sense Offers customer data management. App Messaging Mobile Push Digital Ads Text Messaging Web Push & Pop-Ups CRM understanding. Personalized Customer Experience. Pricing: This Customer-Led Marketing Platform offers a customized pricing model.  It also offers free demos. Ratings:  G2: 4.6/5 ? 4. Seventh Sense – Best for Email Marketing Nowadays, hundreds of tools claim to be the best for email marketing. But many of them still don’t crack the code for success. Email marketing is best for lead generation. Moreover, one of the most excellent tools for it is Seventh Sense since it encourages advanced marketing techniques.  Additionally, it studies customers’ behavior and finds the best time to send emails, increasing the CTR and customer interaction rate. However, it’ll also increase the rate of marketing success.  Key Features of Seventh Sense Studies customer behavior and the most engaging time for interactions.  Sends emails according to customers’ time. Promotes CTR and customer interaction. Integrated other platforms like HubSpot and Salesforce. User-friendly dashboards. Scheduling Campaigns Automatically Pricing: For Hubspot, it offers $80/month For Marketo, it offers $450/month It also offers a custom plan Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 5. Sprout Social – Best for Social Media Management Sprout Social is an all-in-one marketing tool that handles everything, from creating content to managing and publishing. This application is user-friendly and supports automated repetitive tasks.  It develops relationships with clients and researches their industry to provide better results. Marketers can improve results by streamlining their operations, effectively engaging with consumers, and analyzing campaign performance using Sprout Social. Key Features of Sprout Social Manages social media platforms and publishes content. Supports engagement through comments and DMs Provides trendy ideas for content creation Integrated with different systems like CRM and workflows to improve marketing. Pricing: Standard Offer for small businesses – $199 per seat/month  Professional Offer for team handlers – $299 per seat/month  Advanced Offer – $399 per seat/month  Ratings:  G2: 4.4/5 ? One of the key points of marketing is to keep an eye on competitors, like what they are doing and what strategy they are using for leads. But, for this process, you have to go through a lot of information and research. AI makes that part easy for you with just simple steps.  These AI marketing tools can increase your business marketing and productivity. Now, go give them a try and boost your marketing campaigns. Featured image by GRIN on Unsplash The post Best Al Marketing Tools 2024 – Let’s Boost Your Campaigns appeared first on noupe.

Best AI Marketing Tools 2024 – Let’s Boost Your Campaigns

In the past few years, AI’s impact has increased daily. No industry that doesn’t involve AI technology in its business is left behind. Artificial intelligence certainly helps to make the job easy. Now, this revolution has also changed the marketing industry.  Nowadays, digital marketers can work smartly and effectively with AI. However, there are tons of AI marketing tools which makes it challenging to choose the right one. But don’t worry. We have done the hard part of the research for you and made a list of the top 5 best AI marketing tools.  Read till the end and find a suitable AI tool for your business. Top AI Marketing Tools to Elevate Your Strategy in 2024 We have researched different AI marketing tools. After our review, we have made a list of the top 5 marketing tools here. Let’s find out the best from the rest for promoting campaigns. 1. Jasper AI – Best for Content Creation Jasper AI is a powerful AI tool that helps marketers, business owners, and content creators create high-quality content. This AI tool helps in writing blogs, emails, social media, and website content. It was initially named Jarvis, inspired by Tony Stark’s AI assistant from Marvel.  Additionally, Jarvis was an important character in Iron Man movies, so they sent a cease and desist letter to the. After that, they came up with a new AI assistant called Jasper AI. Let’s find out its key features. Key Features of Jasper AI: It helps in emails and marketing campaigns Helps in copywriting and blog writing It has an AI image suite feature for editing images for web and media Write product descriptions Help in building a brand voice Generate marketing campaigns Support 80+ languages Generate optimized content Pricing: It offers a free 7-day trial period.  For Creators – $39/monthly For Pro – $59/monthly After that, you need to get a subscription plan.  However, it offers a custom plan as well. Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 2. Surfer SEO – Best for SEO Optimization In the list of five AI marketing tools of AIChief, Surfer SEO comes at the second number. It is a content optimization AI tool that helps you optimize your content on Google’s first page. You can create a content outline and do keyword research before writing an article through Surfer SEO.  Moreover, after writing, this AI tool can check your article on all aspects like keyword density, length, headings formats, readability, and AI detection. So, the article can rank better and be ranked on Google. However, you can work on its platform directly as it has an editor option. So you can edit your content while writing. It also has a paraphrase feature to humanize your content. Lastly, it is also integrated with other AI marketing tools like Jasper, Google Docs, WordPress, and many more for content creation. Key Features of Surfer SEO Helps in content optimization Checks keyword density & AI detection from content. Paraphrasing Feature for humanize content Generate Content Outline Provides Competitor Analysis Report Supports multilingual languages Pricing: The essential Plan starts at $99/ month.  Scaling Plan starts at $219/month.  It gives a 7-day money-back guarantee. Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 3. Optimove – Best for Customer Data Management It is one of the best tools for managing and building relationships with customers. This AI tool studies customers’ data and predictive analytics in order to promote customized marketing campaigns.  Moreover, Marketers can design customizable customer journeys with Optimove. This will modify each customer’s unique behavior and response, resulting in unique experiences for every consumer and improving engagement and loyalty.  Key Features of Seventh Sense Offers customer data management. App Messaging Mobile Push Digital Ads Text Messaging Web Push & Pop-Ups CRM understanding. Personalized Customer Experience. Pricing: This Customer-Led Marketing Platform offers a customized pricing model.  It also offers free demos. Ratings:  G2: 4.6/5 ? 4. Seventh Sense – Best for Email Marketing Nowadays, hundreds of tools claim to be the best for email marketing. But many of them still don’t crack the code for success. Email marketing is best for lead generation. Moreover, one of the most excellent tools for it is Seventh Sense since it encourages advanced marketing techniques.  Additionally, it studies customers’ behavior and finds the best time to send emails, increasing the CTR and customer interaction rate. However, it’ll also increase the rate of marketing success.  Key Features of Seventh Sense Studies customer behavior and the most engaging time for interactions.  Sends emails according to customers’ time. Promotes CTR and customer interaction. Integrated other platforms like HubSpot and Salesforce. User-friendly dashboards. Scheduling Campaigns Automatically Pricing: For Hubspot, it offers $80/month For Marketo, it offers $450/month It also offers a custom plan Ratings:  G2: 4.8/5 ? 5. Sprout Social – Best for Social Media Management Sprout Social is an all-in-one marketing tool that handles everything, from creating content to managing and publishing. This application is user-friendly and supports automated repetitive tasks.  It develops relationships with clients and researches their industry to provide better results. Marketers can improve results by streamlining their operations, effectively engaging with consumers, and analyzing campaign performance using Sprout Social. Key Features of Sprout Social Manages social media platforms and publishes content. Supports engagement through comments and DMs Provides trendy ideas for content creation Integrated with different systems like CRM and workflows to improve marketing. Pricing: Standard Offer for small businesses – $199 per seat/month  Professional Offer for team handlers – $299 per seat/month  Advanced Offer – $399 per seat/month  Ratings:  G2: 4.4/5 ? One of the key points of marketing is to keep an eye on competitors, like what they are doing and what strategy they are using for leads. But, for this process, you have to go through a lot of information and research. AI makes that part easy for you with just simple steps.  These AI marketing tools can increase your business marketing and productivity. Now, go give them a try and boost your marketing campaigns. Featured image by GRIN on Unsplash The post Best AI Marketing Tools 2024 – Let’s Boost Your Campaigns appeared first on noupe.

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Pricing Plans Ui Design For Web

Combine design blocks - get more results What's the primary purpose of a clear and simple pricing plan block? To let a potential customer select the plan which is most convenient for your business, not for a user. That's why most expensive plans are always highlighted, elevated and visible more clearly instead of basic or free plans. Material Web Design Templates is equipped with 10 pricing blocks by default: 5 for light and 5 for a dark theme. You can pick the most affordable for your project, mix, combine and retouch the styles; or implement as it is. https://setproduct.com/web/templates More UI lifehacks and tricks in Web Design Inspiration Gallery

Why Designers Need to Learn about Business

The difference between service design and Business Design explainedWhat is the difference between a Business Designer and a service designer anyhow? Isn’t it the same? What do you do that we don’t? an agitated colleague asked me recently. She is a service designer. She has an interest in Business Design and wants to learn more. But she still gets confused about the difference. With this article we will try to clarify.Business Meets DesignFig. 1: Google trends for service and business design for the past year.The search interest in service design and Business Design illustrates the fact that the first is more known in the design community. They share a similar approach but are distinct in their focus and tools. We will look at the biggest differences between the two.In a later article we will discuss the distinction between Business Design and business analysis.Business Design vs. Service DesignService design cares about user experience. The focus is on user-friendliness and the desirability of the product. But this is not enough. Imagine a team building a great user experience for a very popular product, but without a business model.Without Business Design there is no viability and the company will eventually go bankcrupt. Signs for a lack of business sense arelack of market overview: competition and positioning,unprofitable business model,arbitrary pricing,over-optimistic marketing,disregard of company assets, andan unclear strategy.Business Design focuses on creating, delivering and capturing value. It is concerned about the tangible benefits that are delivered to customers and partners. And it puts a price tag on these benefits.Business Designers and service designers look at innovation from different perspectives. Here we summarize the differences in seven categories:Fig. 2: Categorized differences between Business Design and service designBusiness model vs. service conceptWhat is the focus of analysis? A service designer looks at the integration of all product features and supporting functions in a service concept or blueprint. The Business Designer looks at the business model and where value creation happens.Solid business vs. delightful user experienceWhat are we striving for? A service designer wants to create the best user experience while the Business Designer wants to create a sustainable business. They have to work together to achieve both.Company strategy vs. product roadmapHow do we plan? A service designer plans the product roadmap to know what to work on and coordinate with other stakeholders. A Business Designer thinks about the company’s overall strategy and organisation. A financial plan quantifies the assumptions.Customer vs. user personaWho are we designing for? While the focus of the designer is the user and he creates a user persona to understand their needs, the Business Designer focuses on the customer because this will be the person that pays for the value created. Especially in B2B user and customer are rarely the same person.Market research vs. interviewsHow do we do research? A service designer employs user interviews and other qualitative methods to find out about the user’s needs. A Business Designer looks at the market, competition and industry trends.Marketing funnel vs. customer journeyHow do we look at the users experience? The service designer looks at the Customer journey to understand how the user persona experiences the product. He tries to make the user’s journey as frictionless as possible. The Business Designer defines a sales or marketing funnel that understands in detail the buying decision process and thinks about the necessary actions in each step to make the product or service successful.Revenue vs. engagementWhat do we measure? A service designer will draw satisfaction from a proven engagement of the user with the service. A Business Designer measures his success in monetary revenue and profits.Fig. 3: Business Design at the intersection of business and designShared ApproachesIn practice the boundaries between the two professions are not so strict and service designer take over Business Design tasks and vice versa. Especially the way they approach problems is very similar.Focus on the ProblemBoth invest time in thoroughly understanding — or even defining — a problem before they try to find a solution. They work together to define a value proposition that makes the users happy and also have a sustainable business model.Run ExperimentsBusiness and service designers frame assumptions that they carefully test. Both build MVPs (minimum viable products) to validate their hypothesis and run experiments before they spend more resources on a high definition product.ConclusionWe need Business Design and service design. Service designers should know about business and learn the basics, while Business Designers need to understand the importance of user experience. Compared to more traditional professions they spend more time on identifying the problem and validating assumptions. They have a bias to action over analysis.Of course, the two are part of the whole innovation triangle: we also need tech and execution to get our product into the market.Fig. 4: The innovation triangleShare your thougths and sign up to my newsletter on Business Design to stay updated.Why Designers Need to Learn about Business was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Colleges have a housing crisis. These designers have a plan to solve it

A few hundred feet from the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, a new kind of student housing is taking shape. Designed by architects at Mithun, the Gayley Towers project envisions transforming old apartments into collegiate cohousing where freshman through senior students would have private bedrooms with private food storage and share kitchen and living room areas. The idea is bonding and building community through food, says Brendan Connolly, a partner at Mithun, and creating a vertically integrated community.  It’s also a design that solves a vexing challenge on campuses today: affordability. The majority of the project’s 545 beds will rent for $600 per month, a steep discount from the standard found in this upscale pocket of northwest L.A. “Students will be more successful if they don’t have to worry about rent . . . as intensely as I think a lot of them do,” Paavo Monkkonen, a professor of urban planning and public policy, told the student paper. As new college students acclimate to campuses across the country this fall, they’re also adjusting to the burden of student dorms and apartments that have become substantially more expensive than in years past. In California, in particular, students are feeling the pinch. Coeds attending the University of California, Berkeley—in a town where exclusionary zoning was pioneered—have found options severely limited. With the school housing only one in four undergrads, many have scrambled to find something off campus, with potential apartments falling through right before the school year starts. It’s reflective of a national trend that’s making housing as costly as tuition (in some cases, even more so). Student housing costs shot up 14% more than inflation between 2010 and 2020, according to the College Board, with many in-state students spending more on a place to live than the institute of higher learning that brought them there in the first place.  California has become emblematic of the dual challenge of keeping college students housed and the experimentation happening as teams of architects, school administrators, and developers attempt to solve a crisis of access and affordability.  This has created an opportunity for architects to impact college dorm and student housing design in ways that can reduce the cost barriers of education, and also meet the myriad needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Design can’t solve budget problems, city zoning laws, or NIMBYism near campus. But an increasing fusion of student, cohousing, and affordable housing strategies are coalescing in creative ways, especially as more housing is built, and larger projects are greenlit, with a goal of maximizing beds per unit. Granville 1500 is a student-focused apartment complex in West Los Angeles. [Photo: Paul Vu for LOHA] The Campus Housing Challenge Tuition costs have quadrupled for the 10 University of California schools, and grown sixfold for the California State system. In recent years, the state has been rife with stories of students sleeping in cars or couch surfing. Nearly 20% of community college students in the state have experienced homelessness, and many schools have opened food pantries to help students make ends meet.  This affordability crisis in on-campus and adjacent housing—what’s sometimes called “campus edge” housing—is far from just a California, or West Coast, concern. It’s a nationwide problem, especially in the pandemic era, when the separation of students due to COVID-19 revealed striking mental and psychological strain. Roughly 8.6 million students struggle to find housing near school, with rent for student housing shooting up 6.7% last year alone. At the University of Texas, the school started offering housing scholarships last year. This kind of real estate is also big business in the $10 billion student housing investment market. But California, by dint of its meteoric housing costs, may be where both the problem, and some of the solutions, are most advanced. UCLA just announced a housing mandate in 2022, declaring it would guarantee four years of campus housing for every new student. And State Senate Bill 169, passed in 2022, provides hundreds of millions of dollars for conversions and building new student housing. The efforts are spurring a building boom.  Gayley Towers at UCLA will feature vertical integration of freshman through senior students. [Photo: Courtesy of Mithun] Mithun, a national architecture practice with a large student housing focus, is currently working on projects in California totaling 10,000 beds. Firm partner Brendan Connolly estimates there might be 150,000 in the works statewide, where an estimated 417,000 students lack stable housing.  “The numbers are enormous because they realize this magnitude problem is so much bigger,” Connolly says. “Buildings used to be 300 or 400 beds, and now they’re 2,000 or 3,000. The affordable housing world and the student housing world are definitely mixing in this very brackish way right now.” Every square foot matters The crisis, especially in California, results from a number of factors: What was once a promised, no-cost, or low-cost college education has become another rapidly rising consumer good, according to an analysis by CalMatters. In addition, many campuses tend to be in expensive urban areas of California, where rent will run $2,000 or more a month.  Two national news stories in recent years highlighted the stakes and scope of the issue, in terms of dorm building and design. In Berkeley, a now-defeated lawsuit stalled new student housing, arguing that under the state’s environmental review laws, coeds represent some form of noise pollution. The suit highlights the power antidevelopment forces have in neighborhoods surrounding schools, where many colleges and universities need to build new housing. In Santa Barbara, news of the proposed and now killed Munger dorm, a massive windowless cube lacking natural light in its living quarters, spoke to the blunt and uncomfortable value-engineered solutions to the issue some had proposed.  The bottom line will always be key in discussions of college living, says Lorcan O’Herlihy, founder of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA). The firm currently has six such close-to-campus projects in the works, and has already completed student-focused apartments, such as Granville1500 in West Los Angeles. But that just means universities and colleges should tap designers and architects with the ability to make more functional, cost-effective, and comfortable buildings. O’Herlihy says his firm’s affordable housing history made it a great choice for student work.  Granville1500 is a 10-minute drive from the UCLA campus in Westwood. [Photo: Paul Vu for LOHA] “When you are in a way in the trenches, developing projects where you have pared-down budgets, that kind of lends itself towards how do you make something ordinary extraordinary?” he says. Amid the rapid ramp-up of new dorms in the Golden State, many different strategies are being deployed to design more efficient, affordable dorms. In many cases, the campus itself has been fully built out, leading to more development and experimentation in nearby neighborhoods and cities. The projects tend to borrow from affordable housing design. In addition, colleges plan to own, run, and operate this housing, in many cases for decades, allowing more long-term thinking and sustainability in the design process, since longtime owners can afford a longer payback period for energy-efficient dorms.  Barrington1503 in West L.A. utilizes a cohousing model with four- and five-bedroom units built around an open courtyard. [Illustration: LOHA] The big focus remains getting the most beds into the least amount of space, but doing so without cramming students into dark, featureless rooms. It’s akin to the evolution of workspace design in an era of hybrid work: fewer and smaller individual spaces but more expansive, better-designed areas for collaboration and community.  “We’re seeing a lot of downward pressure on square feet per room, tight living spaces, almost like little sailboats in that they need to optimize flexibility,” Connolly says. “So we’re focused on putting more space in the community spaces. Every square foot matters.” Design solutions One Mithun project, on the campus of Ventura College, seeks to create prefabricated, cross-laminated timber housing, part of a larger movement to build out modular student housing that can easily and cheaply be replicated and repeated. The warmth of wood, and the biophilic benefits of showcasing the material, mean less need for cladding. For example, showing a “naked”  interior wood joint or support that looks good, as opposed to exposing a steel I beam in the middle of a dorm bedroom, and also lower floor heights. It’s also the first housing project on the community college campus, about 80 miles up the coast from Los Angeles.   Rendering of Barrington1503 [Illustration: LOHA] “There’s a huge fascination in the UC system around prefabrication, and not just for structural work but for bathroom pods and cladding systems,” Connolly says. “It makes a lot of sense, since college housing is such a repetitive project.” Lynn McBride, another architect and partner at Mithun, adds, “There’s also a lot of conversation at colleges about equity. Universities like to have similar living systems across campus.” For O’Herlihy, it’s important for design to prioritize livability. Granville1500, a 153-unit UCLA housing project on the site of a former car dealership, does so with a focus on the exterior space. A series of wedged-shaped buildings wrap around a courtyard, creating an interior and outer edge lined with windows and gathering spaces to give students exposure to natural light. The firm also utilized metal for the facade to avoid the maintenance costs of cracking stucco and to utilize a recyclable exterior.  Granville1500’s architectural design aims to maximize its student-tenants’ exposure to natural light. [Photo: Paul Vu for LOHA] There are also subtle ways to give spaces multiple uses, says McBride. This means setting up gathering areas and seating in dorm hallways for meeting and collaboration, slightly taller ceilings to make bunking easier and more spacious, and clever use of cohousing tropes, such as shared kitchen spaces. Many projects seek to provide individual accommodation for different types of students such as transfers or graduate students; this requires even more focus on tight, microunits with added flexibility.  It’s important that amid these larger projects, especially off campus, the community remains a focus, notes Connolly. It’s vital for these larger dorms that remain a distance from the campus quad that the college experience isn’t similarly distant. That means building in social spaces, academic and health support spaces, outdoor community and gathering areas. McBride adds that California’s climate allows for the advantageous strategy of optimizing the outdoors for social gathering areas, whether it’s rooftops, atriums, or space for barbecue grills and dining.   UCLA Gayley Towers [Photo: Courtesy of Mithun] Many buildings, like the Gayley project, include new types of community spaces to meet a diversifying student body. Instead of simply a study lounge, these dorms have private study spaces, Zoom rooms, counseling spaces for mental health services, and prayer rooms. Demographically, the college enrollment population peaked a few years ago. But because of the need for more affordable accommodations, the aging of existing facilities, and the undersupply of housing, firms like LOHA and Mithun will likely remain busy for many years to come.  “You want a healthy environment, and we pitch that to clients,” O’Herlihy says. “They recognize that design does make a difference and it’s valuable. These are young, vibrant kids who are really pushing themselves [and] elevating their abilities in terms of thinking and [learning] how to learn. What’s the best environment to learn?”

The 8 Essential Tools That You Need for Solid Business Design Work

How to become a Business Designer (3/3) — the tools“Find out what could be the business model behind this.” — it was my first appointment as a Business Designer. And I just stared at the blank page. Where should I start?If this horror vacui feels familiar, our Business Design tools are your cure.The Power of ToolsSome years ago you needed to be an expert in your field to know where to start this kind of analysis. Today, the internet has democratized access — if you know where to look! In the all-sharing entrepreneurship scene, several frameworks are available that help and guide you through this process. There is a body of knowledge engrained in tools that are openly available and waiting for you to apply them: while each project is new, the underlying questions are not.These Tools Get You Started With Business DesignAlthough this is the final article in our series on How to become a Business Designer, don’t worry if you have not fully developed the mindset and mastered all the skills just yet.As a beginner, I used these tools to approach the field and got familiar with the mindset over time. As with any skill, reading is the first step but to learn it you must practice!This article outlines the tools which are the bread and butter of a Business Designer across the four phases of the innovation cycle. You can use it together with the innovation cycle as a manual for your next Business Design venture.Fig. 1 — The innovation cycle guides the Business Design process and groups 8 tools in 4 phases: (1) research, (2) synthesis, (3) concept and (4) prototype. However, the process is not linear but also iterates among phases.1. Research — Gain Knowledge from Reports and ExpertsStart with thorough desk research to get an idea of your topic, market, and customer. Find articles, studies, reports, books, and conferences on your topic to get a good overview over the industry. Set an alert on google to follow the news about your topic and sign up to newsletters. As you want to build quantitative models watch out for statistical data and check local or regional statistics. I start every project with a deep dive into the industry and connect with experts: complement your desk research with primary customer voices, stakeholder requirements, and expert knowledge. Asking questions and interviewing users is an art in itself. For recruiting experts use directories like LinkedIn or dedicated networks. Meetups provide access to local knowledge. Organize your research with mindmaps and searchable archives. Once you have a good overview of the market, you are ready to move into the synthesis step.2. Synthesis — Understand the Business, Market and Value CreationThe next step is to make sense of your findings about the market, the prevailing business models, your competitors, and the customer.Calculate the size of your available and target market to see if it is worth the effort and analyze your competition to check the market potential of your offering. You can start by mapping your competitors on a 2x2 matrix — the hard thing is to find meaningful axes. I use iterations with different axes to understand the market from different angles. The BCG matrix is a classic for product portfolios that compares based on market size and growth. Learn about your competitors by benchmarking their numbers. Find them in their annual reports, public registrars, press articles, and interviews from (trade) press.If you want to quickly get an understanding of a business model, a value network or ecosystem map helps to understand an industry and to analyze the flows of values among stakeholders. It is also a good tool to evaluate the robustness of an economic system. An alternative is the classic value chain analysis of cost drivers and profit centers.To synthesize the outcome of your primary and user research, use frameworks from design thinking: create personas to get an understanding of your target customer, map customer journeys to immerse into their life, and identify jobs to be done to inspire ideas how to solve their needs.As soon as you are sure of the customer need you progress into concept phase. But beware: the innovation cycle is not a linear process. Sometimes it is best to build a value network and use the findings to inform another round of research.3. Concept — Design a New Business ModelNow the preparations are done, and you are ready to get creative and design the new business model! Draw information from your research and your synthesis and add a spark of inspiration: you can use the following frameworks to guide and document your design process.There are many ways to spark the creative process: you can get inspiration from collections of business model patterns and examples of revenue streams, or get your thinking started with innovation cards like the spark cards, brainstorm cards, or innovation types. These inspiration tools open your perspective and encourage divergent thinking.Once you have a few ideas, business model frameworks are a great method to communicate them, get feedback, and discuss different alternatives. The Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas help you to structure a business model and make you think about its components. Blue Ocean Strategy helps to find a new market for your offering instead of competing in red water, and a service blueprint shows the players and steps involved in the value creation and makes the idea more tangible.Now that you have an idea of the problem solution fit, your assumptions need to be tested and validated with a prototype4. Prototype — Test Your (Financial) AssumptionsNext you develop a prototype to test your most critical assumptions. You build a minimum viable product (or RAT) to maximize learning and iterate on the critical components of your business model: I once stopped a very early project after we did initial prototyping and found out that our pricing was far from realistic and we would never make enough revenue to be viable.In Business Design your main prototyping tool is the financial plan — a spreadsheet that provides an overview and forecast for your business idea (it can get very elaborate). Use it as the basis for a hypothesis driven approach. Figure out what are the most important key performance indicators (KPIs) — e.g. with a sensitivity analysis — and which ones you should verify first. Use some “quick and dirty” methods to build a fact base on which you can test critical financial metrics: for example, I approximate customer acquisition costs with a marketing campaign to a landing page or do customer research to find out about the usage frequency of a service.Good performance management and well-defined, actionable KPIs help measure the progress of your venture, informing decision making and strategy. Discovery Driven Planning provides a set of tools to evaluate a business idea early on and decide on the effort of strategic initiatives.This process of identifying critical assumptions and meticulous validating them through testing helps you to continuously learn with an efficient use of your resources. If you falsify one of your assumptions you can easily go back to a previous phase. If your assumptions hold true you take a further step towards executing your business idea.Bonus: Support Tools — How to Communicate and Work in TeamsNext to these Business Design tools there are some skills that always come in handy: a big part of your job will be to communicate your ideas and persuade others to follow your guidance. Whether it is a classic presentation or a pitch — both need storytelling and clear communication of your findings. If you display quantitative data, think through how to best visualize it.Business Design is an intersectional discipline and you co-create a lot of ideas. To design and facilitate co-creation workshops is an art in itself which requires a certain mindset: balancing structure and creativity. Make sure to prepare an agenda and set the format while also being open to new ideas and discussions you have not scheduled for. If done right, workshops are a very efficient way to ideate, communicate, and iterate concepts.Since businesses are composed of people, good stakeholder management is a key skill for a Business Designer. It keeps stakeholders aligned and makes sure that politics do not get in the way of great ideas. Besides empathy and relationship building, more formal tools will help as well. Make sure to do structured project planning to get everyone on the same page and clarify roles. I found pre-mortems to be a great tool to identify project risks and do after action reviews to facilitate learning.ConclusionThere are hundreds of tools and frameworks even beyond what I have linked here that can help you with your Business Design projects. Follow the innovation cycle as a guideline and apply the appropriate tool for the appropriate problem. If they fit your purpose, go with them, if not, try something else. Over time and with practice, you will build up a portfolio of tools for each situation, strengthen your skills, and learn the mindset. You will become faster in evaluating new tools, and eventually you will come up with your own frameworks.I am costantly learning from my colleagues in the field, who are coming up with new tools and frameworks that inform my work and make me a better Business Designer. Now that you have completed my series on How to become a Business Designer, I hope you are ready to join us in the Business Design community!Tell us about your favorite tool and your experiences in the comments!Thanks to Christoph and Suhayl for feedback on early drafts.The 8 Essential Tools That You Need for Solid Business Design Work was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.