![]() Q: What, exactly, is the Uber Frugal Month Challenge? ![]() Humor and photos of your frugal hacks (and pets!!!) are welcome and encouraged! And Now For My World-Famous* FAQs Section! It’s also a “Frugalwoods-y” group, which means no rudeness, judgement, self-promotion, or mean comments tolerated. It’s a private group, which means the posts are confidential to the group. If you’d like to join the group, you’ll receive instructions after you sign-up for the UFM. If you’re already a member of the group, you just keep on keeping on. You do not have to join the private Facebook group in order to participate in the Challenge–it’s an added bonus and a way to connect with the broader, worldwide Frugalwoods community. ![]() This chicken: does not have a Facebook acocunt I rarely comment because the group members are rocking it and have created a wonderful community! I LOVE the supportive, helpful, friendly, funny and frugal conversations in that group. #Unsubscribe joinme free#Plus, it’s free so there’s nothing to lose! The Private Facebook Group Lives OnĪctually, the private Facebook group never stopped after I created it a few years ago. I invite you to join me this month for an accessible, easy-to-understand journey to financial health. The Uber Frugal Month is a chance to spend quality time with your money and understand it in a guilt-free environment devoid of financial jargon and shaming. Saving money is great, but until we understand our money–and our reactions to it–we can’t make lasting changes to facilitate a healthy, long-term relationship. It’s about a holistic restructuring and examination of our relationship with one of the most divisive, fear-inducing, anxiety-provoking, divorce-causing, emotional things in our lives: OUR MONEY. Admit that you’re being difficult and don’t want to give me an out.While the name implies this Challenge is only about saving money, it is not. I mean, it would honestly be better, in my opinion, to just tell me I can’t unsubscribe. It’s that last point that really hones in on the lack of ethics some marketers & designers have come to adhere to. Some Emails Require You To Send An Unsubscribe Request.Some Emails Don’t Have an Unsubscribe Link.outlines a few in his piece on Noteworthy: There are several issues with the level of ethics adhered to by many design teams. UX and UI teams are really, really good at exhausting the user who is looking to unsubscribe from their mailing list or newsletter. Right? But here’s where the real evil-genius-design comes into play. Okay, so you may say that opting in isn’t that big of a deal because you can just opt-out. #Unsubscribe joinme full#Pretty shameful right? Unfortunately, stuff like this isn’t uncommon, and it results in users (like me) having their mailboxes so full that often times using that mailbox almost becomes tedious. Check out the example below identified by Ben Davis at, the user has to hit the ‘More info’ dropdown to uncheck the pre-checked box that’s opted them into the email marketing scheme. UX teams have gotten pretty shifty with their ‘dark pattern’ tactics and it’s almost become difficult to NOT opt into email marketing on a lot of websites. You know what I’m talking about - you go to a website, buy something, and think all is well. What’s amazing is that I actually have opted in, I just didn’t realize I was doing it at the time. ![]() I’ve lost track of how many companies send me marketing material that I’ve ‘opted in’ to. So, I decided to take a little bit of a closer look - maybe you’ll tell me I deserve to be frustrated at the end of this piece, or maybe you’ll join me in sharing that frustration. Coincidentally, I’ve also just read about the importance of usability, accessibility & ethics in my UX Bootcamp and I couldn’t help but feel a sense of frustration realizing all the tricks I’ve been falling for. Lately, I’ve been on a wild ‘unsubscribe’ kick from all the marketing content cluttering my Gmail inbox. The ethics behind marketing email design, or lack thereof ![]()
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