Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 12 May 2014

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

  • UX Designer Vs UI Designer [Infographic]
    “UX and UI design­ers work in a pret­ty sim­i­lar envi­ron­ment. But their roles are quite dif­fer­ent from each oth­er. For instance, while a UX design­er will focus more on task flows and sce­nar­ios, a UI design­er will tend to think more about col­ors an…
  • Divvy App for Mac and Windows Splits Up and Organizes Windows to Maximize Productivity
    “Divvy’s use is explained in the screen­cast up top, but to sum­ma­rize, Divvy pro­vides a small, grid­ded win­dow in which you can arrange your open win­dows into neat order: side by side, half-and-half ver­ti­cal­ly or hor­i­zon­tal­ly, split up 5 windows …
  • 6 Memorable Methods of Self-Promotion
    “From offen­sive screen­prints to greet­ings cards, six cre­atives share the most stand­out self-promotional meth­ods they’ve come across.

  • US Patent Office Grants ‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent To Amazon #IP #TMFail
    “I am not real­ly sure how to tag this oth­er than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attor­neys. In a patent sim­ply called Studio arrange­ment Amazon took IP own­er­ship on what we all call shoot­ing against a seam­less white b…
  • You Can Get Student Loans Forgiven in Bankruptcy, but It’s Far From Easy – Businessweek
    “Conventional wis­dom once held that it was almost impos­si­ble for debtors to get off the hook for stu­dent loans, even after they declared bank­rupt­cy. That think­ing was chal­lenged by a 2012 paper in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that showed…
  • Layered Type from Type Worship
    “Over the last cou­ple of years, lay­ered type­faces have appeared in best­seller charts and found their way into a vari­ety of dec­o­rat­ed head­lines where more elab­o­rate or colour­ful typo­graph­ic styles are required. Each lay­er is gen­er­al­ly a separate…
  • Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups

    Some VCs say the FCC’s lat­est net neu­tral­i­ty pro­pos­al will raise costs for star­tups that need fast con­nec­tions or use a lot of bandwidth.”

  • Interaction Design Best Practices

    But, the past and the future are not of con­se­quence here. We’re going to briefly touch upon three best prac­tices when it comes to inter­ac­tion prin­ci­ples – right now.