The Week in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 8 May 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos
    “The prin­ci­ples with­in Stoicism are, per­haps, the most rel­e­vant and prac­ti­cal sets of rules for entre­pre­neurs, writ­ers, and artists of all kinds. The Stoics focus on two things:

  • A Simplified Business Plan for the Real World

    Talk about your busi­ness. Try answer­ing these ques­tions to a friend. Make note of the ques­tions they ask and the sug­ges­tions they make.Try to get all the answers on one page, two at the most. 

  • Ask for Storys. Why You Need To Master The Lost Art Of Small Talk In The Gchat Era
    “THIS SKILL CAN HELP YOU DO BETTER IN WORK, LOVE, AND LIFE. SO STEP AWAY FROM THE LAPTOP, AND GET GABBING.
  • Average Is Over: Why The Skills Required For Great Jobs Are Changing
    “This max­im will apply to the qual­i­ty of your job, to your earn­ings, to where you live, to your edu­ca­tion and to the edu­ca­tion of your chil­dren, and maybe even to your most inti­mate rela­tion­ships. Marriages, fam­i­lies, busi­ness­es, coun­tries, cit…
  • 4 Tips to Find Meaningful Work
    “Young peo­ple today want to do work with pur­pose. If you’re hav­ing a hard time find­ing that, these lessons can help.”
  • Guide To Adapt Your WordPress Theme For Different Devices

    According to a sur­vey, most of the peo­ple nowa­days spend near­ly 40% of their time online via a mobile device. Therefore, for any web­site own­er it could be a scary sit­u­a­tion as they need to make a lot addi­tion­al efforts before releas­ing any new web­site – as they also need to test – how their site will respond when accessed via mobile devices? Especially, for younger gen­er­a­tion using smart­phone is the best way to access the Internet. Thus, it will be suf­ficed to say that if your web­site isn’t per­form­ing on a cer­tain device means los­ing your poten­tial traf­fic. If you’ve a WordPress themed web­site that you want to adapt for dif­fer­ent devices, a viable option is to con­duct server-side device and brows­er detection.

  • app​.itize​.us – “a painstak­ing­ly curat­ed pre­sen­ta­tion of the most well designed apps
    “a painstak­ing­ly curat­ed pre­sen­ta­tion of the most well designed apps”
  • Famous Graphic Novelists Discuss Inspiration, Education, and Digitization

    When a pan­el of four esteemed graph­ic nov­el­ists have only an hour to address an audi­to­ri­um packed with eager fans, it’s unlike­ly they can cov­er very much in very great depth. And thus it was when Ben Katchor, Mimi Pond, Anders Nilsen, and Vanessa Davis gath­ered at USC for “Illustrating the Point” at the L.A. Times Festival of Books a few weeks ago. Among the top ques­tions they’d light­ly touched upon: What oth­er car­toon­ists have inspired you? What’s the val­ue of high­er edu­ca­tion for comics artists? And what’s up with the future of dig­i­tal comics? So here’s my post-event follow-up, in which each of them dive into the details.”

  • Run Your Meeting Like a Boss: Lessons from Mayer, Musk, and Jobs

    eet­ings are such a fix­ture in our work lives that we con­stant­ly hear the same advice: have an agen­da, keep it short, don’t invite too many peo­ple. However, despite the com­mon­al­i­ty of this well-meaning advice, research from Harvard sug­gests that half of all meet­ings are unproductive.

  • Why The Color Red Revs You Up (But Lowers Your IQ)
    “SEVEN STUDIES FOR DESIGNERS AND MARKETERS ABOUT THE COMPLEX AND BIZARRE SCIENCE OF THE COLOR RED.”