Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 29 May 2014

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  • The 5 best sty­lus­es for paint­ing, sketch­ing & draw­ing on iPad
    mprove your iPad art­work using these five iPad sty­lus­es designed for sketch­ing, draw­ing and painting.
  • Helvetica: How did one type­face con­quer the world? BBC News
    Mike Parker who helped pop­u­larise Helvetica died this week. You won’t find a graph­ic design­er who isn’t famil­iar with the type­face (released in 1957 under its orig­i­nal name Neue Haas Grotesk). But Helvetica is one of the most well known typefac…
  • 4 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Site Launch

    Today, I’m shar­ing the five most com­mon mis­takes that ruin web­sites and how to counter them to guar­an­tee you a suc­cess­ful site launch.

  • Training Your Coworkers to Understand Design

    If you’re like most in-house design­ers, you fol­low a water­fall process where project assets are gen­er­at­ed and shared, mov­ing from one per­son to anoth­er in a sequen­tial order. Now it’s time to see about how agile method­olo­gies can help you work smarter, not harder.

  • Why Female Entrepreneurs Should Stop Procrastinating and Make Their Ideas Happen Now
    Let’s face it: The start­up field is still a boys’ club. From founders and CEOs to investors and acquir­ers, we often see men in lead­er­ship posi­tions. Women start few­er com­pa­nies and raise far less in ven­ture cap­i­tal, but some of that is starting…
  • Ideas Behind Responsive Emails
    In this arti­cle, I’m just going to poke at some ideas around respon­sive email. These are not robust, production-ready ideas, I just thought it was fun to think about. It was inspired by lis­ten­ing to Fabio Carneiro speak recent­ly. Fabio works fo…
  • Here’s Your Future – Striking Photos Provide A Close-Up Look At 100-Year-Old Models
    Like many com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phers, Anastasia Pottinger spends much of her time doc­u­ment­ing the ear­ly stages of life: babies, lit­tle kids, and young fam­i­lies. But then a 101-year-old woman offered to sit nude for Pottinger’s cam­era. The result …
  • 25 Useful Sponge Textures for Design and Photoshop
    So the sponge tex­tures have become quite pop­u­lar among the web designers.
  • 44 Color Scheme Tools for Picking the Perfect Print Palette

    Since choos­ing col­or is such an impor­tant aspect of design, there’s no shame in seek­ing out­side assis­tance. We’ve select­ed some of the best col­or scheme tools on the web to help you do every­thing from gen­er­at­ing palettes to sam­pling a col­or from an image or web­site. As always, we’ve catered our selec­tions towards print media, but no mat­ter your medi­um, these col­or scheme tools can be a big help.

  • 10 Free Project Management Applications

    How do you tack­le your project man­age­ment? Do you write a to-do list down for each project and each client? Do you use spread­sheets for every­thing? What about your team mem­bers? Do they email you their updates on a project’s sta­tus? Are they wait­ing to hear from you about dead­lines and impor­tant tasks?