The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Content Creators Face Mounting Pressure in Era of ‘Third Screen’
- Creating Accessible PDFs with Acrobat DC
Make your content readable to everyone! Learn how to create valid, accessible PDFs that can be read by screen readers and users of other assistive technology, using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, and Acrobat DC.Tags: PDF eform Acrobat DocumentClou…
- You don’t get to play the gender card to promote piss-poor writing
When you use “People are only attacking me because I’m a woman” as a marketing tool, you hurt every other female professional out there on the Internet. A tweet today got me irrationally, stupidly, Peter Cohen-levels of angry. Namely, this tweet by Qu…
- The essentials of GTD (Getting Things Done) in 2 minutes, 22 seconds
Our friends over at Epipheo made a great video capturing the essentials of GTD. Well worth watching!
Tags: Productivity Leadership GTD
- Do I need people to run a Digital Asset Management solution within my organization?
Technology does not function alone. It works with and for people. The short answer is Yes. Read on to find out why it is critical to the success of your DAM and your organization.
This is not an IT function. If the DAM “works as designed” and it often does, IT often does not care.
You need people (at least one) who are close to the actual users who are using the system. This is where you position them.
Tags: DAM Assets liability IP
- Nine surprisingly lengthy tips for cutting and editing your copy
Probably the most common copywriting issue that people want to address on our courses is how to cut copy.
‘We have so much we want to say but our content’s way too long and clunky already.’
‘How we can say what we need to say in half as many words?’
Reducing wordcount matters because the online space is a tough reading environment.
Here’s a quote from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think:
Tags: Copywriting
- Portland, I Love You but You’re Forcing Me Out – Willamette Week
Today, Portland feels like a theme-park version of itself.Tags: PDX
- Twitter Rolls Out Twitter Polls
Now it’s possible for everyone to create polls on Twitter.
- Apple, Dropbox, Twitter, Wikimedia, Google, Facebook, Yahoo Oppose Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Days Before Vote
The companies are joining a chorus of tech firms arrayed against the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.Tags: CISA
- Reframes, rethinks: 16 speakers share ideas at TEDGlobal>London
At TEDGlobal>London, insights on the issues that matter most in the world right now: the refugee crisis, poverty and ethical science.
- The 7 Best Drag-and-Drop Page Builder Plugins Reviewed
We take a look at seven of the best WordPress drag-and-drop page builder plugins – Reviewed with pros and cons compared…
Tags: WordPress
- Designing WordPress Themes for Printing
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how WordPress users and theme developers can design their WordPress themes for printing by using some basic CSS.Tags: WordPress
- But who cares? | Google Makes Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still Under Competitor’s Contract
To acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that’s a huge shot across Microsoft’s bow. The company says that it will..Tags: Google GooglePlus
- But who cares? | Google Makes Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still Under Competitor’s Contract
To acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that’s a huge shot across Microsoft’s bow. The company says that it will..Tags: Google GooglePlus