Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 26 November 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • Battle for the promised land in cus­tomer experience

    Content mar­ket­ing is where it’s at, with 300 per­cent more leads and 600–700 per­cent more con­ver­sions. But where are things going from here? The answer is cus­tomer expe­ri­ence. We are on the bleed­ing edge of a new era, and it’s a bat­tle­field out there!

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  • How To Create an Instagram Style Vintage Photo Filter in Photoshop
    This tuto­r­i­al will guide you through the process of cre­at­ing Instagram-esque vin­tage pho­to fil­ters in Photoshop, by learn­ing these sim­ple steps you will be able to craft your own unique effects with unlim­it­ed possibilities.Tags: Photoshop
  • Aim to Be the Rock Star While Interning or Working Entry Level Jobs

    By the last day of your intern­ship, your boss should be beg­ging for you to stay. She should be say­ing things like, “What are we going to do with­out you?” That is a last­ing impres­sion. That is a ref­er­ence nailed.

  • The Emotional Power of Color

    Colors can have a tremen­dous impact on a consumer’s deci­sion to pur­chase. With today’s three sec­onds to con­vince vis­i­tors to con­vert kind of world, it’s impor­tant to use col­ors, images and mes­sag­ing the best way we can.

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  • How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator
    I’ve always been fas­ci­nat­ed by smoke, and have exper­i­ment­ed a lot with it. So in this tuto­r­i­al, I explain how to cre­ate real­is­tic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vec­tor cig­a­rettes and get start­ed smokin’!Tags: Vecto…
  • How to beat cre­ative block using Corel Painter
    Lacking inspi­ra­tion? Painter’s Mirror Painting tools can help, says Don Seegmiller.
  • 10 (More) CSS Tricks You Probably Overlooked
    There are plen­ty of CSS snip­pets that web devel­op­ers can use to achieve cer­tain results, and then there are CSS tricks that you can use for things like align­ing and…Tags: CSS Design