Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 26 August 2014

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

  • The Three Qualities of People I Most Enjoy Working With
    Several weeks ago, I shared the above Venn dia­gram in a sta­tus update. With 20k+ likes and com­ments on LinkedIn and over 2.2k retweets and favorites on Twitter, it’s become the most viral update I’ve shared to date. As a result, thought it migh…
  • 12 Free Tools For Text To Speech Voice Conversion
    At times, you need to con­vert text into speech voice whether in order to save your time or you like to lis­ten the arti­cle rather than read­ing it. This is the time when online tools and ser­vices for text to speech voice con­ver­sion come into play…
  • Calibre 2.0 Adds an Editor, Book Comparison, and More

    The big new addi­tion here is the edi­tor. You can now edit ebooks in a ton of ways and export them to EPUB and AZW3 for­mats. Also new is the abil­i­ty to com­pare two books so you can look at edits side-by-side. A few oth­er small improve­ments are in this update as well. For instance, if you’re an Android user who’s also on OS X, Calibre final­ly works for you, and a num­ber of improve­ments to the library orga­ni­za­tion make it a bit eas­i­er to use overall. 

  • The Process of Designing the ‘Amperheart’ Love Ampersand Logo

    The Love Ampersand or Amperheart logo was the result of a few hours of pro­cras­ti­nat­ing one Saturday morn­ing. I had plen­ty of ‘prop­er work’ to be get­ting on with, but drift­ed towards ‘play­ing’ instead. Something I am racked with guilt over.

    However, pleased that the pro­cras­ti­na­tion devel­oped into some­thing rea­son­ably use­ful, and not just wast­ed hours on da internat.

  • 4 Things Your Company Might Tell You That Simply Aren’t True
    The real­i­ty is that some­times your man­ag­er does­n’t always know the cor­rect information.
  • 10 Free Infographic Design Kits
    Below we have found for you some of the best info­graph­ic design kits. You can use these awe­some tools to design your own info­graph­ics to pro­mote your brand or product.
  • Moving Beyond the Responsive Web to the Adaptive Web

    This all leads us to what I believe is the next growth phase in web devel­op­ment: Adaptive Web Design (AWD).

    This con­cept has some­times been called RESS, but regard­less of labels, it involves mak­ing deci­sions on the serv­er that deter­mine what should and shouldn’t be sent to the user, so that noth­ing is sent that will not be used.

  • Evernote Tags – Create An Evernote CRM and Other Tag Uses

    Evernote tags are like manil­la fold­ers, click­ing on a tag in Evernote is sim­i­lar to open­ing your manil­la fold­er. Inside is every­thing you tagged or “put inside that fold­er.” Put it anoth­er way, use tags for the gran­u­lar seg­ments, the spe­cif­ic top­ics in your life that you would like to drill down to with the ease of 1 click.

  • Commune With Nature In These 6 Productivity-Boosting Offices
    Being in the midst of nature, even sep­a­rat­ed by a win­dow, can help your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and morale. These offices bridge the outside/inside divide.
  • Use Slack (App) for Project Management with these Simple Tips

    Recently I real­ized that with Slack’s clever set of fea­tures and well planned, distraction-free UI, the plat­form can dou­ble up as a project man­age­ment tool for many peo­ple. See if you’re one of those peo­ple and learn how you can go about set­ting up Slack to be your online per­son­al assistant.