How To Make Your Productivity Systems More Efficient

Creativity is like a muscle. You have to use it to keep it strong.

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - Three Levels of Pain Points in Customer Experience

Here's what I learned from reading this article:

1. Pain points are problems that occur at the different levels of the customer experience: interaction level, customer-journey level, or relationship level.

2. Pain points can cost the user in a few ways: time, interaction costs, cognitive load, loss of trust.

3. Pain points should be prioritized over random feature requests where feasible as they are more important for the customer.

Link To Article: Three Levels of Pain Points in Customer Experience

🔨 Tool - Neumorphism.io

• Source: adamgiebl.io

• Neumorphism.io is a free tool that allows you to generate the CSS behind Neumorphic box shadows. This is a useful tool to bookmark as achieving a Neumorphic design in CSS can be quite tricky.

• Neumorphism.io

🔨 Resource - Smashing Magazine

• Source: @smashingmag

• Smashing Magazine is a super helpful online magazine for designers and web developers. There are so many categories on the website but I recommend focusing on the Design category for starters.

• Smashing Magazine

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🎨 2 Design Tips

Use clear table headings

Don't assume the user knows that TKT means Ticket ID or Add means address.

Design Tip - Use clear table headings

Use consistent button styles

It improves speed and accuracy and will avoid errors.

For most websites, you'll want 1 primary + 1 secondary button style.

Design Tip - Use consistent button styles

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📃 1 Article I Wrote

How To Make Your Productivity Systems More Efficient

How we live our lives and the systems we use to keep on top of things are always changing.

As we find new helpful nuggets of advice, we adopt those into our systems to try and be more productive, less busy, or happier.

With that said, it can be challenging enough to define the areas we are struggling with, never mind coming up with an effective solution and implementing it.

I’m writing this article to share with you the process of how I identified my “productivity bottlenecks”, determined an effective solution, and implemented that solution so that I could work more effectively.

Read The Article

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

Michelle The Creative 💎 @MishaCreatrix

I love the idea that creativity is like a muscle. When you run or lift weights, your muscles break down then build back up to become stronger. The same can be said of creativity.

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In case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

1. Poet.so

2. Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity

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