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		<title>Re:Designing Your Online Finances (Part 7)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over these past few weeks, we’ve taken a quick look at:
(1) the core value proposition behind money management
(2) a market landscape analysis of online personal finance services, and
(3) opportunities to improve the user experience and engage users in social networking (using Wesabe.com as our candidate for redesign).
Some of the most interesting findings have been in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Our Favorite Interactive Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following websites seem to have bottled the “magic” surprise factors of curiosity, intimacy, humor or shock. They are some of our favorite examples of how strong an impact you can have on your customers by paying close attention to how you design their experience with your website. Surprise is one of the hardest components [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Re:Designing Your Online Finances (Part 6)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3Strand’s Concept Features for Wesabe:
Support Groups and Scorecard
Trying to get your finances under control can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming process. Throw in the worst economic downturn Generation Y has ever faced, and you’ve got a whole generation crying out for something to offer them a sense of control and stability.
Wesabe has a key [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>The Sound of Uranus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, the amount of bad jokes I&#8217;m holding back from right now.
About a week ago I saw a post of the sound the Voyager Satellite has been picking up as it passes through our universe. There is no sound in space but the radio frequencies are picked up by the satellite and then turned into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Designing Politics, 1 Poster at a time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the US presidential election has come and gone, after seeing the recent Obama “Hope” posters become such a fad, we became curious about how past presidents portrayed themselves through the graphic design of their posters.
After tracking down campaign posters for every president since 1900, we found a few things that surprised us:
– Wow, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Re:Designing Your Online Finances (Part 5)</title>
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This week we’re continuing with our redesign of Wesabe.com, a money management/social networking site. Shown below is our redesign concept for Wesabe’s member homepage. Catering to Generation Y’s needs, our design approach is to make the homepage feel simple, fresh and a bit playful. 
3Strand Concept Member Homepage Design for Wesabe.com
For the first level of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Re:Designing Your Online Finances (Part 4)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These past few weeks, we have pretty much been living and breathing money management in our quest to find ways to improve the design of the user experience. Now it’s time to choose the lucky website to be redesigned. Quicken? Mint? Yodlee?
And the winner is…WESABE!

Wesabe is a relative rookie (started late 2005), but is also the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=107</link>
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		<title>The Best Desserts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who makes the coolest desserts ever?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=104</link>
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		<title>ReDesigning Your Online Finances (Part 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

This week we’re reviewing three more money management websites: Finicity/Mvelopes, Quicken and PNC Virtual Wallet.
Finicity/Mvelopes

Overview: This company is okay at everything but not special in any way. It charges you $13.20 per month (which is a shocker, seeing as it is the only service in this field that charges anything). On the whole, Mvelopes, recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=102</link>
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		<title>Designing Social Entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social entrepreneurship is a topic that is close to our hearts because we believe that this is an area where effective interaction between design, business and technology is most needed. As many people are mindful of their finances this year, the market is showing trends of customers mixing gift-giving with philanthropy. Here are some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandinnovation.com/blog/?p=98</link>
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