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Transportation Mobile Apps: 10 Cool Features for a Better User Experience
A mobile app may not always make sense for your transportation project, but when it does, consider some of these great examples of how the right user experience can kick things up a notch.
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Monkee-Boy Launches Virtual Open House For Oak Hill Parkway Project
We have continued our successful partnership with CTRMA by creating a virtual open house website for the Oak Hill Parkway Project. The site was developed to collect comments and feedback from the public about Alternative A, the proposed solution to relieve US 290 and SH 71 intersection congestion.
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Eight Reasons Why Websites Are Retired Early
Some websites simply have to be "taken out to pasture" well before their time and, unfortunately, before ROI is achieved. Here are some of the most common reasons sites get redesigned early and ways to help yours avoid an early digital grave.
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Freebie Friday: Practice Hand Lettering Sheets
Creating a hand-lettered piece not only allows for unique layouts, but more flexibility between letterforms, and can evoke a very specific intention that can’t be easily replicated.
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Evolving the Digital Experience of Transportation -
A Manifesto
Digital is broken in the transportation industry and is working against its core goals of connecting people and communities. The following core principles are presented as a roadmap for achieving this mission of deeper connections and engagement.
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SXSW 2018 - Highlights From the Troop
Each year we send a group of Monkees to SXSW to keep a pulse on what the conference has to offer and what thought leaders are, well, thinking about. Here are some of the highlights.
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Transportation Project Must Haves: The Virtual Open House (VOH)
Need a way to expand engagement and exposure during your next transportation project? Drive into this post to learn about what a virtual open house (VOH) is and how it can help.
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Freebie Friday: iPad Procreate Brushes
Creating pieces on an iPad can significantly enhance the flow of a lettering piece. You can start your beginning sketches using a pencil textured brush and transition to the refinement and inking stages relatively quickly.
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