Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 14 October 2014

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • Top 10 Ways to Find the Best Place to Live
    Where should you move to? Where will you feel at home? These are com­pli­cat­ed ques­tions with many vari­ables to con­sid­er, so today we’re tak­ing a look at tips on find­ing the right neigh­bor­hood (or city or state) for you, and maps and sta­tis­tics t…
  • Top 10 Tricks for Shopping at Amazon
    We love Amazon for its con­ve­nience, vari­ety, and prices. We also love tricks and tips that help us save mon­ey and reap more ben­e­fits when shop­ping the mega online store. Here are ten of our favorite Amazon tricks.
  • How to Fix LinkedIn’s Biggest Annoyances
    Love it or (most like­ly) hate it, LinkedIn is the lead­ing social net­work for your career, whether you’re look­ing for a job or just want to stay in touch with oth­ers on a pro­fes­sion­al lev­el. It’s also incred­i­bly frus­trat­ing to many of us. Here’s…
  • This Graphic Shows How to Remove Embarrassing Photos from Social Media
    Even if you think you’re shar­ing or stor­ing pho­tos pri­vate­ly online, there’s always a chance that your pic­tures could inad­ver­tent­ly get into the wrong hands. Here’s how to com­plete­ly remove pho­tos you don’t want shared from Facebook, Google, In…
  • Is Smarter Technology Dumbing Down the Human Race?

    As a child, you mem­o­rized your friend’s phone num­bers; now you just add them to your phone. You used to mem­o­rize direc­tions; now you just use your GPS. Are humans becom­ing stupid?

    It depends what you mean. You could argue we’re becom­ing less good at mem­o­riz­ing things, includ­ing phone num­bers and direc­tions. But does that mean we’re less intelligent?

    Not nec­es­sar­i­ly. Intelligence is more than rote mem­o­riza­tion, of course. But is not using our brains to mem­o­rize things mak­ing us less intel­li­gent, due to lack of prac­tice? And are the many dis­trac­tions the dig­i­tal world offers keep­ing us from learn­ing new things, or think­ing deeply?

    It might be an impos­si­ble ques­tion to answer, but many have tried, Let’s take a look at just a few of the promi­nent thoughts out there.

  • An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon

    I’ll demon­strate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first I’ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros and cons. Then, we’ll exam­ine two pop­u­lar icon fonts and we’ll see dif­fer­ent exam­ples show­ing how we can use them in our projects.

  • 3 things you didn’t know you could do with InDesign

    Adobe InDesign is well-known for its pub­lish­ing capa­bil­i­ties. With this pow­er­ful tool, you can cre­ate books, mag­a­zines, posters, brochures, fly­ers – more or less any­thing you can think of when it comes to print design. But did you known that InDesign has some oth­er cool features?

  • 3 things you didn’t know you could do with InDesign

    Adobe InDesign is well-known for its pub­lish­ing capa­bil­i­ties. With this pow­er­ful tool, you can cre­ate books, mag­a­zines, posters, brochures, fly­ers – more or less any­thing you can think of when it comes to print design. But did you known that InDesign has some oth­er cool features?

  • 18 Mac Hacks That Will Make You A MacBook Pro
    Did some­one say EMOJI KEYBOARD?!
  • 4 Creative Photoshop Artists Who Cleverly Manipulate Landscapes [PHOTOS]
    A lot of artists have dif­fer­ent tools that they use to cre­ate a par­tic­u­lar form of work. Some peo­ple use paper as a medi­um whilst oth­ers pre­fer a more dig­i­tal art form. Then there are those who uti­lize Photoshop as a tool in order to make somet…
  • Prioritize Your Goals with Warren Buffett’s Two-List System
    Warren Buffett might best be known for his finan­cial advice (which is usu­al­ly very sim­ple), but we might also learn a few things from him about pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and achiev­ing our goals.
  • How to be a cre­ative director
    What qual­i­ties do you need to become a cre­ative direc­tor and how do you become one? Leading cre­ative direc­tors offer their views.
  • 6 Reasons Why Perfectionism Kills Your Productivity
    Perfectionism sounds like a first world prob­lem, but it sti­fles cre­ative minds.
  • 7 Amazing Color Scheme Tools for Designers or Anyone

    Colors are tricky. It might seem easy enough to pick a hand­ful of col­ors that look good togeth­er, but as any design­er who has spent hours tweak­ing shade after shade to no sat­is­fac­tion can tell you: it’s tricky.

  • Does this sur­re­al ani­ma­tion spark your creativity?
    Portals is a visu­al treat set in a bio­lu­mi­nes­cent world. Director Simeon Sokerov and con­cept artist Viktor Mazhlekov say its aim is to spark the imagination.
  • 7 Steps To Getting A Business Loan – Forbes
    While it is not as easy as it once was before the Great Recession, all banks and oth­er lenders still need to loan mon­ey to small busi­ness. The key is to know how to do it and get the best terms. Here is a sim­ple 7 step process: