Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 13 June 2014

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

  • Free Creative Resume Template
    A min­i­mal well designed Resume tem­plate for free. If you are a design­er you know the impor­tance of a cre­ative resume, but it is a real­ly time con­sum­ing work. You can down­load the resume for free, the source file is in PSD for­mat and it is well …
  • Think Critically by Asking Why, What Else, and What If

    What is a sim­ple way to improve your crit­i­cal think­ing skills?

    Ask “Why?”, “What Else?”, and “What if?”

    It’s an easy way to probe issues and cur­rent thinking.

  • This is Online America – Cringeworthy Map Showing What Each State Googles the Most

    The great peo­ple over at Estately have com­piled an info­graph­ic that should hit close to home for any­one who lives in the U.S. Here’s a map show­ing what each state Googles the most, and, yeah, I don’t think there’s a lot of cause for region­al pride here. This is just weird all around, America.

  • TV Is About To Enjoy Its Biggest Renaissance in 50 Years

    These are uncom­fort­able days for net­work tele­vi­sion executives.

    After decades of reli­ably sched­ul­ing when audi­ences are to be enter­tained, informed or thrilled, the lin­ear broad­cast mod­el – and with it the exis­tence of TV chan­nels them­selves – seems to be at the cusp of hit­ting obso­les­cence, thanks to the irre­press­ible march of technology. 

  • 6 Free Social Media Guides All Business Owners Should Read
    The first reports are aimed at begin­ners, with the next ones grad­u­al­ly increas­ing in com­plex­i­ty and depth, so that peo­ple at all lev­els of social media flu­en­cy should be able to learn some­thing, and ben­e­fit from the infor­ma­tion in these documen…
  • How to Bounce Back From Burning Out

    I pon­der respond­ing to those ques­tions with the kind of answers I believe they deserve, but then I real­ize that I have to actu­al­ly main­tain rela­tion­ships with those people.

    It’s been weeks since I’ve been able to write or do any­thing that per­tains to my life ambi­tions. What am I sup­posed to do with that? How do you pick your­self up from the dol­drums when you have nowhere to go? There’s no foothold, noth­ing to firm­ly place your hand upon to hoist your­self up again.

    How does one recov­er from burnout?

    How do you start all over again?

  • How to Retain Users with Good Design
    Good design is key to any suc­cess­ful web­site for increas­ing user sat­is­fac­tion and engagement.
  • Assistant​.to App Takes the Hassle Out of Scheduling One-on-One Meetings

    Scheduling any kind of meeting—whether it’s with a friend for cof­fee or a one-on-one with your boss—can be a pain. Assistant​.to wants to take the back-and-forth out by mak­ing it a one-click affair. The ser­vice presents mul­ti­ple options to your recip­i­ent, they choose, and it’s instant­ly added to every­one’s calendar.

  • 10 Simple Steps To Staying Safe On Social Networks

    Social net­work isn’t quite as much fun as it used to be. Nearly ten years ago, you could safe­ly accept friend requests with­out hes­i­tat­ing. Today, you’d have to think twice before even shar­ing a pho­to. This is espe­cial­ly true for women, who are often stalked online. This sim­ple list of 10 safe­ty tips will help to make social net­work­ing a fun expe­ri­ence while being cautious.

  • How To Build A Professional Facebook Profile You Can Be Proud Of

    If you know you’ve got fol­low­ers who are main­ly of a pro­fes­sion­al ilk, it’s worth­while post­ing an occa­sion­al update or link that fits with your pro­fes­sion­al pro­file. Consider post­ing about things your com­pa­ny is doing or things rel­e­vant to your field. If you’re look­ing to change careers or prove your knowl­edge in a cer­tain area, use this as a way to show­case what you know and are inter­est­ed in by post­ing links about devel­op­ments in that field.

  • Make Your Own Shortcodes And More, With These 7 WordPress Hacks

    Plugins both­er me – see­ing a long list of them, each reg­is­ter­ing it’s own hooks and fil­ters and … eugh. Sometimes a sim­ple solu­tion can be found with just a few lines in your functions.php file. Here are 10 of our favourites.

  • Email Is For Setting Expectations

    Unread—or read but not replied to—email takes a toll on your hap­pi­ness and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at work. It’s hard to stay focused on your impor­tant long-term goals as the emails pile up, and you know in the back of your mind that you’ll have to get to them “one of these days.”

  • UX Dilemma: Red Button vs. Green Button

    In this test, two pages were used — the orig­i­nal page used a green but­ton col­or and a dupli­cate page used a red but­ton. They found that, inter­est­ing­ly, in this case the green had a much big­ger impact than red and drove con­ver­sions 21% higher.

    The test was car­ried out over a few days of traf­fic and the pages received around 2000 vis­its, with but­ton clicks being mea­sured by Performable. Every oth­er sin­gle aspect of the page was the same yet the results far exceed­ed what was expected.

  • Create an Infographic Using Snap.svg

    In short, the Snap library wraps all the great func­tion­al­i­ty of the SVG tech­nol­o­gy, allow­ing us to cre­ate all kind of resolution-independent vec­tor graph­ics – both sta­t­ic and inter­ac­tive – in an eas­i­er and straight­for­ward manner. 

  • 40 Ways to Stay Creative [Infographic]
    This is a guide for peo­ple who need a bit of inspi­ra­tion. In the form of a tasty info­graph­ic, we have come up with 40 Ways to Stay Creative, so that if you are ever lack­ing in the cre­ative depart­ment, you can always refer to this post or even p…
  • The Ultimate Guide to Solving 500 Internal Server Errors and Blank White Pages in WordPress

    The 500 Internal Server Error is the most unhelp­ful and non­de­script bane of web devel­op­ers every­where. It’s a catch-all error mes­sage that can lit­er­al­ly mean any­thing. Sometimes, your WordPress site gives no error at all and just shows a blank page. How on earth are you sup­posed to fig­ure out what’s wrong?

    It hap­pens to the best of us, but no need to pan­ic. Here’s my own debug process, in order of like­li­hood and with solutions.

  • Too Much Sleep Might Be as Bad for Your Brain as Too Little
    We’ve long talked about the impor­tance of sleep and get­ting enough of it, but what if you tend to sleep more than the often rec­om­mend­ed 7–8 hours? A new study sug­gests that might also neg­a­tive­ly affect your mem­o­ry and thinking.
  • Why We Hate Car Shopping Reveals How We Can Improve All Business Interactions
    , a good por­tion of the pop­u­la­tion would rather give up sex or do all kinds of unpleas­ant things rather than nego­ti­ate with deal­er­ships to buy a car. With this type of aver­sion to the auto pur­chas­ing process it is no won­der Tesla’s direct sales…