CauseLabs Resources

Lessons & insights from our journey for positive impact.

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When Should We Redesign Our Company Website? It Depends… Here’s a Guide to Help

Is your company website still connecting with your audience?If you haven’t updated it in the past few years, the answer may be a resounding no. As user behaviors continue to shift, so too must your website. Here’s when and why you should consider a redesign. Understanding Your Audience: More Than Just Demographics It’s not enough […]

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Enhancing Color Blindness Accessibility: Using AI for Inclusive Data Visualization

Improving Color Blindness Accessibility with AI: Designing for All Vision Abilities There are so many times when I want to throw my phone across the room while working with AI. Things are going smoothly, and then, all of a sudden, it simply fails. There’s no backtracking to get it back on track; instead, it gets […]

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Technology has the power to transform our world on a scale that is unprecedented. How might we, as social good organizations, learn, adapt, and benefit from these shifts?

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MyPath & CauseLabs Collaborate on High-Touch, High-Tech Programming to Improve Financial Literacy

We’re collaborating with MyPath, a national nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA, to continue delivering financial products for low-income individuals. Backed by a sponsorship from JPMorgan Chase, we’ve joined forces to uncover the next iteration of MyPath Money, both on the Savings and Credit programs.

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Doing Good Business, A New World Wide Web

When the success of a business relies on more than just passion, how do we hold true to our values and why we started our business?

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The Power of Clickable Prototypes

A clickable prototype links multiple screens together via hotspots that are interacted with via click or tap. The result is a testable, easy-to-update solution to a design problem that users can experience.

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Advanced REST API Design

In our previous post, we covered the basics of designing a REST API: defining endpoints, using HTTP verbs and performing common read-write operations on data. In this chapter, we’re going to introduce some advanced use and edge cases you may want to consider in order to give your REST API a sound and long-lasting design.

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What you need to know about REST.

If you are a developer and you’ve worked in any modern web application, I’m sure this term rings a bell for you. REST stands for Representational State Transfer. If you’re already familiar with the basics, hop over to our look at Advanced REST API design. If you’re in need of an intro, lets dive in and you’ll see why this architectural style has become a de-facto industry standard for back-end APIs.

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