The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Amazon to screw, I mean pay self-published Kindle authors only for pages read.
Amazon’s new system will cut the royalties for self-published authors who fail
to hold a reader’s attention until the final pageTags: Writing Am writing selfpub ePub - Theresa Jackson Comments on Photoshop PDF for Print Output
If Photoshop is your only option, or you have a completed Photoshop design standing ready to print, Photoshop PDF is your solution. It is the only output option that retains layers, vector content and fonts.Tags: Photoshop print PDF
- Why Users Miss Form Buttons Placed in the Action Bar
- Unfavinator Unfavorites Tweets in Bulk
If you use the favorite function on Twitter to save the best tweets, you may have found you’ve overdone it to the point it’s useless. To go back and unfavorite tweets on Twitter takes a lot of time, but Unfavinator speeds up the process.
Tags: SocialMedia
- Suffering from Social Media Mania? Use These Tools To Manage All Your Accounts from One Place
Well, now the task of keeping all your connections compacted into a single source just got a whole lot easier manage, thanks to a few key apps and websites that streamline the process of staying social, and make sure you’re always one step ahead of what’s happening in the loop.
Tags: SocialMedia
- Design-Driven Companies Outperform S&P by 228% Over Ten Years – The ‘DMI Design Value Index’
The most innovative companies in the world* share one thing in common. They use design as an integrative resource to innovate more efficiently and successfully. Yet many businesses don’t make it a priority to invest in design – often because the value of design is hard to measure and define as a business strategy. The DMI Design Value Index has taken the mystery out of measurement, demonstrating that an unequivocal financial advantage is attributable to those that do dare to make design a priority.
- 6 Myths About Millennials and the Media
Digitally native, the millennial generation is often thought to be abandoning traditional media for digital, and especially social, alternatives. But what do we really know about them?Tags: publishing print epublishing
- 6 Myths About Millennials and the Media
Digitally native, the millennial generation is often thought to be abandoning traditional media for digital, and especially social, alternatives. But what do we really know about them?Tags: publishing print epublishing
- 6 Myths About Millennials and the Media
Digitally native, the millennial generation is often thought to be abandoning traditional media for digital, and especially social, alternatives. But what do we really know about them?Tags: publishing print epublishing
- How to write copy that sells your creative services like crazy
The bad news: If you’re like the hundreds of other freelancers whose marketing I’ve glanced over, you’re probably not doing it right.
- Experiencing Blogging Block? Then You Need These 6 Tips and Tools
Suffering blogging block? How are you supposed to continue blogging and still keep your posts interesting, relevant, and high quality? Here are some tipsTags: Writing Blogging
- The Undeniable Benefits of Being Weird
The weird shall inherit the Earth.
All my life I’ve heard the same refrain, “Why can’t you be… Normal?” But, everything in life has its risks including (and especially) being ‘Normal.’ Most of us understand there’s risk when taking the chance and aspiring to something more. But even more are ignorant of the cost of Normal, the cost of not taking chances, and the risk of complacency.