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Matt S. Smith, MBA

Color Trends: “Battleship”

October 17, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Later in the blog, I want to illustrate a completely unexpected color trend of today, but first let’s dispose of this idea that 1) color trends are constant and that 2) color trends are predictable. They are not. It was easy to point to color trends in previous decades of American culture: turquoise in the […]

Filed Under: Design

5 Things Nobody Tells You About Work / Life Balance

October 9, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

A constant storyline in your life and within our society is figuring out how to reconcile work and life. How can we be successful and live a good life? If getting crazy rich isn’t an option, how do we have a good work/life balance? Although there are many answers, I am convinced that most of what we’ve been told is insufficient. Even worse, it undermines our ability to enjoy life.

Filed Under: Worky Worky

The World Agrees: Emojis are the Best / Worst Thing Ever

October 2, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Happy and Mad Emoji Faces

Today we are overwhelmed with the written word. Websites! Social media! Emails! Apps! Messaging! I’m going to guess an average adult reads 40,000 words each day. All this flying across multiple screens through each minute of the day. This is unlike anything in human history. Because it is impossible to comprehend such a volume of words, we need a new visual language to enhance what we already have. Emojis allow us to quickly grab attention and communicate emotion in a way that we never could before.

Filed Under: Design

10 Fundamental Differences Between Design Gurus and Legit Designers

September 26, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

October 2014 Lebron 12 Shoe

To become legit at anything takes time, passion, and humility. It means caring about something long after everyone around you has lost interest. It may not bring quick fame or fortune, but your gifts have tremendous potential to mend a society and culture that has battered by greed and vanity.

Filed Under: Branding, Design

2020 C8 Corvette, a Harvard Case Study without an Ending

September 23, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

I really didn’t want to write a blog about a Corvette. As a designer, I respect the Corvette’s beginnings, back at the 1950s and 1960s when we were flying into Outer Space and flying down the roads in Space Age cars. But, I came of age in the 1990s, and by then, the Corvette didn’t […]

Filed Under: Design, Technology and Culture

For Social Networks to Survive, They Must Solve the Problems that They Created

September 18, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Screen Addiction, Social Media Addiction

It’s easy to argue that the future of social media will be a linear progression–that we will get more engrossed in social media. This is a probable outcome, but only if you ignore the problems that social media has already caused, and you assume that these problems will not get worse.

Let me highlight three problems that we can can clearly see around us today:

1) The Validation of Vanity
2) Undeniable Addiction
3) Artificial Division

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology and Culture

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