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We settled on creating 3 categories of emails:</p>\n<p>1 - Transactional: purchase related emails such as the busbud tickets and payment confirmation.</p>\n<p>2 - Promotional: Promotions geared around your purchases and data points on the users</p>\n<p>3 - Content: Emails around travel stories and tips.</p>\n<p>After weeks of iterations and testing there one was clear conclusion, the output needed to be kept dead simple.\nEach email was designed to follow a simple pattern:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light illustration to set the tone of the email and at a glance, give an idea of what it was about.</li>\n<li>A very large, straight to the point title to grab the attention.</li>\n<li>A short and descriptive</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This way, it remains appealing, compatible with all clients and fully responsive.</p>\n<p>Here is a few of the emails:</p>\n\n  <a class="gatsby-resp-image-link" href="/static/survey-cd9ef707dc5a4b4a9ccb62c1474a8225-a276a.png" style="display: block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">\n  \n  <span class="gatsby-resp-image-wrapper" style="position: relative; 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