Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 23 September 2014

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  • 50 Tips for Starting Your Own Company

    Starting your own busi­ness isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s stress­ful and pret­ty much demands your com­plete focus. On the plus side, it can also be a ful­fill­ing expe­ri­ence pro­fes­sion­al­ly and personally.

    Here are 50 tips on how to make your busi­ness come to life:

  • 100 Things I Know About Photography

    I’ve spent the last half of my 20′s as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er. I’ve nev­er tak­en a class or pre­tend to know every­thing about pho­tog­ra­phy but spend­ing so much time with it and obsess­ing over my work has left me with a few insights that I thought I might share with all of you.

  • 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials at Digital Arts UK
    Learn tech­niques for Photoshop across art, illus­tra­tion, graph­ics and pho­tog­ra­phy in these tuto­ri­als from the world’s best practitioners.
  • Keep Conference Calls On Target With the Pound Key
    We’ve all been on a long con­fer­ence call that veers off top­ic. Try using the # or oth­er key on your phone to sig­nal it’s time to get back on track.

    Keeping the con­fer­ence call focused helps the call end quick­ly. Entrepreneur has a handy tip to…

  • The Case Against “Doing What You Love”

    I don’t like advice like “Do what you love and the mon­ey will fol­low.” Not because it isn’t true, but because it’s a monkey’s paw: it’s true under the right cir­cum­stances with the right peo­ple, and for every­one else, it’s just bad advice.

  • The new way to use Photoshop on your iPad
    Discover how to per­form mask­ing, com­posit­ing and selec­tions in Photoshop CC while you’re on the move with Photoshop Mix.
  • Why You Should Take a Week-Long Break From All Screens | PsyBlog
    Children who spend five days away from their smart­phones, tele­vi­sions and oth­er screens were sub­stan­tial­ly bet­ter at read­ing facial emo­tions after­wards, a new study has found.
  • Ditched Your Laptop for an iPad? This Guy Did with a Few Apps and Accessories
    If you have been think­ing about using your iPad as your pri­ma­ry com­put­ing device, you’re not alone. Tablet com­put­ers have become so pow­er­ful and prac­ti­cal that you can almost ditch your desk­top and go iPad-only for day-to-day tasks, and with a …
  • 5 Ways To Spot A Bad Boss In An Interview | Forbes
    A boss can lit­er­al­ly, make or break your career. Here are five ways to spot the bad ones before they become yours.
  • Explaining The Global Tablet Market Slowdown (In Deference to the Hyperbole of Best Buy’s CEO)
    What’s dri­ving the great tablet slowdown? 

    BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s pre­mi­um research ser­vice, fore­casts that glob­al tablet ship­ments will grow at just a 9% com­pound annu­al rate over the next five years, an unex­pect­ed­ly quick decele…

  • 5 Things Your Brand Must Have Besides A Logo

    Lots of peo­ple, many design­ers includ­ed, think a “brand” is just a nice look­ing logo. Wrong. So, so wrong, design­ers. A brand is about a lot more than sim­ply a logo, or a sta­tionery set, a cool t‑shirt, etc. As a brand­ing cre­ative direc­tor, I’ve accu­mu­lat­ed a bit of knowl­edge about what, exact­ly, goes into a suc­cess­ful brand that users tru­ly con­nect with.