How often do you use things that match, things that look good together even if matching has no real functional benefit?

Even when forced, we can’t do things just for the sake of vanity. Yes, it makes sense to put good-looking things together like your wallpaper and furniture but that shouldn’t lead you to choose the obscure design. Instead of following what you’re told or what trends, you can design your own wallpaper. Design what grows, in life and at work. That will be your winning set.

Here’s an exert from Seth Godin’s blog –

It turns out that acute angles, rough edges and the imperfect matches of diversity actually make things work better. Especially when we’re dealing with humans.

Onto the #WeeklyWrap

We know how important it is to load a website faster, we compress images, get better servers and smart coders but really improving UX is about priority hints. WEBDEV shares exactly how. The article shows real proof of how prioritising helps the website load faster.

Meta (Facebook) has definitely gone through many changes in the past year. Media planners, business owners and marketers wonder if pixel is even relevant to them and how to use its data. PixelYourSite’s videos answer these questions.

If you don’t have an Instagram strategy you don’t have one at all. Story and highlights play a key role in engaging with your audience. GrowthHackers Community shares tips you need to execute right now to improve your engagement. Making your stories fun with music, green screen content, and polls is just the tip of the iceberg covered in this article.

More and more businesses today are working on a subscription model. It’s a successful model for many FMCG businesses, not just software and streaming. so an interesting question pops up in Growth tactics’ Twitter thread. Would you take a free trial for a product? what about a low priced trial? turns out, the latter works better and gets you more customers.

Mail Bakey has created a series of articles that can make your email marketing efforts a success. Be it design, content, execution hacks, or predictions, the article has it all. Depending on your strategy for the year you can choose to use all these tips in phases for the best return on your investment. My only tip – track everything and personalise emails for audience sets.