Youtse Sung

About Youtse Sung

How Tinder has changed ecommerce

Through its fun, intuitive and frankly addictive user interface, Tinder’s simple “swipe right for yes, left for no” approach has earned it a place on mobile home-screens around the world – not to mention a valuation of $1.35bn. 

As the popularity (and controversy) of Tinder has grown, many brands have started to copy the brand’s simplistic yes-no interface for their own apps.

This has kicked off a UX and design phenomena rapidly becoming known as ‘Tinderisation’.

Why agile marketing must be about more than social media

Unfortunately, too many marketers have confused ad-hoc social media promotions with genuine agile marketing. 

While the original concept of ‘agile’ as a way of working was first popularised in the world of software development, it wasn’t until recently when applied to the realm of social media that we’ve started to talk about ‘agile marketing’.