Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 15 May 2014

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

  • Free Infographic-Style Resume Photoshop PSD Template
    A free­bie of a resume which is designed in an infor­graph­ic style, the resume is very attrac­tive and pro­fes­sion­al and gets the job done of adver­tis­ing your self. This info­graph­ic resume tem­plate is designed by Kevin Cdnc and avail­able for free t…
  • 5 Collaborative Business Tools for Geographically Dispersed Design Teams

    ” While work­ing from home has been hailed the future of work, there are chal­lenges attached to it – one being the absence of outside-of-work bond­ing time with oth­er employ­ees, which builds trust, and con­se­quent­ly, a cohe­sive team. But as we prob­a­bly can all agree on, a prob­lem isn’t a prob­lem with­out a solu­tion. There are test­ed and proven ways to make vir­tu­al col­lab­o­ra­tion work, one of which is lever­ag­ing the right technologies. ”

  • Should Self-Publishing Authors Hire Editors, Producers and Cover Designers? Team Publishing vs. DIY
    “Just under half of the self-published authors sur­veyed had hired some­one or con­tract­ed with a com­pa­ny to help them self-publish their last book. Among those who hired ser­vices, the medi­an expen­di­ture was in the range of $500- $999, and the med…
  • The Best Places to Find Free, High-Resolution Images

    The only prob­lem is that Google may not always sur­face the best con­tent that is free. Their algo­rithms, at least for image search, pre­fer pages from pre­mi­um stock pho­tog­ra­phy web­sites and the free list­ings thus lose out. If Google isn’t help­ing in your quest for images, here are some of the best web­sites where you may find high-quality pho­tos for free.

  • What are HTML5 Mobile Web Apps and Why Should You have One?

    ccord­ing to data from the app com­pa­ny Locket, peo­ple unlock and check their phones approx­i­mate­ly 110 times per day. The data is based on a sam­ple of 150,000 users and it shows that they are most active in using their smart­phones in the hours between 5 and 8 pm.

    This basi­cal­ly means that, nowa­days, any­one who wants to have a suc­cess­ful busi­ness should con­sid­er going mobile. But what is the best approach? Should you rely on the more tra­di­tion­al “native” mobile apps, or should you try the HTML5 mark-up lan­guage to build your app? Although HTML5 offers plen­ty of advan­tages over native apps, many devel­op­ers still pre­fer the lat­ter for many rea­sons: they are used to them, they like using the app store, they pre­fer to mon­e­tize through the app store, they pre­fer the native inter­face etc.

    However, the ques­tion regard­ing the best choice remains. Finding a solu­tion to this dilem­ma lies in ini­tial­ly answer­ing this essen­tial ques­tion: What do you want to do with your app?

  • Money Makes Us Lazy. The Unpredictable Consequences of Using Money as an Incentive
    “It seems like com­mon sense: a larg­er reward encour­ages a greater effort. So if you need to inspire a per­son or team to strive hard­er, an obvi­ous tac­tic is to offer more mon­ey. Reality, how­ev­er, is not that simple.”
  • Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool
    “Amongst the toolk­it is the Fetch as Google option, which also gives users an oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit their URL to the index. Surprisingly, this tool is often under-utilized by blog­gers, web­mas­ters, and SEO strate­gists. This is a con­ve­nient way t…
  • 5 Secrets to Growing Your Tribe (For Freelancers and Entrepreneurs)

    Every Friday, entre­pre­neurs get to know each oth­er, share some com­mon­al­i­ties, and grow their tribes. But that’s not how it got started.

  • Eight Most Common Editing Errors In Self-Published Books
    “A good edit and a lack of one can make all the dif­fer­ence to whether you sell your self-published book or not, so take a good look at my top eight errors as your starter guide.”
  • Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything

    If you want to be real­ly good at some­thing, it’s going to involve relent­less­ly push­ing past your com­fort zone, as well as frus­tra­tion, strug­gle, set­backs and fail­ures. That’s true as long as you want to con­tin­ue to improve, or even main­tain a high lev­el of excel­lence. The reward is that being real­ly good at some­thing you’ve earned through your own hard work can be immense­ly satisfying.”