Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 15 January 2015

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

  • Feds Struggle to Keep Up With Digital Access Demand
    The explo­sion in the use of mobile devices in the U.S. is pos­ing a major chal­lenge for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to pro­vide pub­lic access to agen­cies via wire­less chan­nels. In an effort to keep pace with tech­nol­o­gy, the U.S. gov­ern­ment launched the Digit…
  • Why we dumped Basecamp and what’s the alternative

    Whilst each new app is great in its sim­plic­i­ty (just like Basecamp), none of the tools quite do the job either. Combining them togeth­er (whilst pay­ing 3 times) almost gets you there but the inte­gra­tion between Basecamp, Campfire and Highrise is far from per­fect and you are left still lack­ing in key functionality. 

  • The Rise of the Digital and Mobile Consumer [INFOGRAPHIC]
    Our increas­ing trust in the mobile medi­um is begin­ning to reshape how we buy things, with mobile fast becom­ing the go-to option for con­sumer research and pur­chase deci­sion. To stay com­pet­i­tive in this mobile-centric con­sumer envi­ron­ment, all businesse…
  • How to Predict What You Will Earn from Your Creative Business Each Month

    If you have no idea how much you might earn from your skills this month, run­ning the busi­ness becomes a source of stress. And we don’t want that. We want to be work­ing on engag­ing projects that we know will pay us well beyond our expenses.

    You can get in control.

    Imagine you could pre­dict, and know with a high amount of con­fi­dence that you will bring in $10,000 next month with your cre­ative craft?

    Here’s how you can gain con­trol, and be in a posi­tion to pre­dict what you earn each month: