Forum One

APRIL 13, 2023

As we finish our three-blog series, we hope you have a better understanding of what service design is and why it’s important for the social sector. There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Here’s the method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I even facilitated design labs to help with the research for my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Are visitors getting a good user experience? It should come as no great surprise that pages that receive the most traffic and attention are those that provide great user experience. Leave it to Google to come up with the industry-leading site testing app. Are your pages loading quickly?

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. They also provide a list of commonly used keyboard shortcuts to incorporate into testing. .

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sandy Marsico, Founder and CEO of Sandstorm Design, described the challenge of balancing risk with growth like this: “You need the courage to take chances and the stomach to handle anxiety. These funds are designated for experimentation. It’s a frenemy they’ve learned how to manage. You have to believe in yourself,” she advises.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How does fashion design relate to digital design? On a basic level, all designers gather inspiration from a range of sources and many design principles are consistent across different disciplines. Designers from around the world presented work inspired by issues in their community and the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Like everything else, though, pop-up technology has evolved considerably, allowing you to segment, test, and optimize. Test out the options. Just as we test landing pages and emails, test the layout of your pop-ups too. Test different CTAs, different value propositions, timing, etc. Use p op-ups only on desktop.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Maybe you’ve already experimented using generative AI to create content such as outlines, agendas, or even articles. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. Check Bing out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

This seemed reasonable enough to everyone, so as an experiment we decided to try making all our summer programming free to members in order to increase attendance. Of course, it wasn''t a complete loss as we did learn several valuable lessons in how not to design a data driven experiment.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Algorithms can be designed to be objective and unbiased, reducing the risk of human error and judgment in decision-making. Take a Test Drive You might think the combination of AI and data is a superpower reserved for corporate behemoths. Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

I conducted my own little experiment. Initially Bard, the underdog who I was rooting for, failed this test miserably. Conversational Abilities: ChatGPT is specifically designed for conversational interactions with users. The C-Bot is the clear winner of this test. Conduct your own experiments. So, keep me posted.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 26, 2021

So, I thought I’d share some specific ways we work closely with Salesforce and with our customers to give our customers a great experience with Nimble AMS. Salesforce made a change in their Lightning design system to refer to CSS syntax with one dash instead of two. They value their customers’ success. Collaborating with Salesforce.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Step 1: Build the top of your funnel SImply put, building the top of the funnel means participating in activities designed to create awareness about your association. Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Every piece of software has a software development lifecycle (SDLC) that typically involves discovery, requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Test in a Safe Environment Low-code development can be incredibly fast. The reasons? Could be the right app but at the wrong time.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. Brandon has crafted user experiences and conducted user research in the nonprofit space for 12+ years. Then you create testing tasks which answer your questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. That is not design thinking.

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CauseVox

JULY 26, 2023

Whether you’re a nonprofit professional, a fundraiser, or a passionate supporter, this webinar is designed to provide valuable insights and practical tips to enhance your fundraising efforts. Responsive design, streamlined navigation, fast loading times, and clear calls-to-action, and how they contribute to a seamless user experience.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

One form this input takes at Candid is User Experience Research (also known as UX research). When done well, UX research allows us to design in anticipation of our users’ needs rather than reactively correcting issues as they emerge.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

This results in potentially messy and inconvenient hybrid meeting experiences for hosts and participants alike. Schedule meetings thoughtfully Having experience working on opposite ends of the in-person to virtual conference room spectrum, it’s easy to underestimate the preparation and forethought that’s required to run a hybrid meeting.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While not every nonprofit organization utilizes annual appeal letters, it has been my experience that most do. Your annual appeal mailing isn’t the time to try out that velvet printing paper you’ve always wanted to use or to test out a new premium to include with the letter.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

And don’t forget to test, test, test before launching. As we mentioned earlier, the biggest advantage of building your own system is that you can custom design your product. With evolving product enhancements, your system is regularly improving for a better user experience. People can be adverse to change.

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CauseVox

JUNE 30, 2023

Whether you’re a nonprofit professional, a fundraiser, or a passionate supporter, this webinar is designed to provide valuable insights and practical tips to enhance your fundraising efforts. Responsive design, streamlined navigation, fast loading times, and clear calls-to-action, and how they contribute to a seamless user experience.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Kindful offers a beautifully designed, intuitive, fully integrated online fundraising CRM. Write tests & make sure they pass. You may be writing components or features from scratch, refactoring code, adding incremental improvements, writing and maintaining technical documentation, writing tests, and fixing bugs.

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sgEngage

JULY 13, 2021

Website design has changed a lot over the last decade, largely due to the vast availability of low-cost, templated designs that look quite stunning. Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of a website. IA defines the navigation of the site and the layout of all the key design elements.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Having a strong, engaging online presence requires having an a ccessib le , professionally designed website. Of course, designing, programming, and migrating your content to a new website is a long-term investment. Finalize visual design. After receiving feedback on the wireframe, your developer will create a final design.

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Whole Whale

MAY 31, 2023

Making your email marketing strategy more accessible involves ensuring that your email content and design are inclusive and usable by people with a wide range of abilities, including those with disabilities. Incorporate good design practices to provide a great user experience and bring positive awareness to your brand.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

We are emphasizing digital and communications strategies that center the communities and individuals served, and build emotional connections through storytelling and experiences. This flexibility, in turn, allows space to prioritize creative, visually interesting, and attention-grabbing designs at a much faster pace.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

Visit the USPS store to choose a design that matches your mission. Optimize Your Design Your design doesn’t need to be fancy. At a minimum, make sure your designer: Uses 1-inch margins and 14-point type in the body text. Uses USPS address placement standards and ensures your letter set complies with the tap test.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2023

Thank you phone calls have the effect of closing the loop, helping to keep alive the warm glow people experience when making a gift. development or major gift director, or the director of a program for which their gift was designated. Alas, I left the organization before the test was completed.) Think about what you could test.

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Forum One

MARCH 2, 2023

The home of animation and development by designers. The designers are taking over the development chair. Forum One designers have enjoyed creating animated websites that fit in small budgets, as we can now test design ideas ourselves. Welcome to Webflow! You read that right.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This is the fourth part in my series about learning how to test the usability of your online donation form and website with real donors. Part one discussed why to usability test , part two outlined crafting your test , and part three gave best practices for recruiting participants. Today, we gear up for your big test day!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fundraising IQ is a collection of AI, machine learning, and data science tools designed to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to maximize their impact by simplifying day-to-day tasks. This automated security measure has resulted in a 97% drop in card testing on Qgiv forms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The book, What a Unicorn Knows , offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Be sure to Interviews, Toolkits and Checkpoints – all designed to enrich your learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Most charities had used the same tried-and-tested methods for decades (namely, galas and sponsored endeavors), but with new health and safety guidelines to contend with, this was no longer possible. More than ever, people want to get out there and have real social experiences with other people. 2) Virtual fundraisers.

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