Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 3 February 2015

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

  • How To Run The Best Virtual Meeting Ever

    My col­league Ken Perlman shares his tricks for run­ning incred­i­bly effec­tive and enjoy­able meet­ings – from 3,000 miles away.

  • 10 Ways Smart Freelancers Prepare for Taxes

    Becoming a free­lancer doesn’t just change the way you work; it also changes the way you man­age your mon­ey. One area that requires spe­cial atten­tion when you’re self-employed is your tax filing.

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  • 10 Ways Smart Freelancers Prepare for Taxes

    Becoming a free­lancer doesn’t just change the way you work; it also changes the way you man­age your mon­ey. One area that requires spe­cial atten­tion when you’re self-employed is your tax filing.

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  • 20 Free One-Page PSD Website Templates
    If you need to design a one-page web­site for a client, then these high-quality free one-page PSD web­site tem­plates will sure­ly come in handy!Tags: Photoshop WebDesign
  • 10 guer­ril­la mar­ket­ing tac­tics for photographers
    Get your cam­eras ready because today we’re going to be cov­er­ing guer­ril­la mar­ket­ing tac­tics for the pho­tog­ra­phers out there. No mat­ter if you free­lance as a…Tags: photography
  • Gestalt Theory in Typography & Design Principles
    Designers are influ­enced by the visu­al per­cep­tu­al aspect of this, par­tic­u­lar­ly the the­o­ry that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The mind copes with the visu­al con­fu­sion of our every­day world by con­sol­i­dat­ing objects into groups in order…
  • How Editors (and Savvy Writers) Automate Editing and Increase Accuracy in MS Word

    Word also works well with some pret­ty pow­er­ful add-ins/ macros–tiny soft­ware pro­grams that exe­cute spe­cif­ic tasks and auto­mate a vari­ety of edit­ing tasks. But it’s not just about automa­tion, its about accu­ra­cy, too. These tools can help edi­tors catch things they’d oth­er­wise miss.

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  • The Need for Product Management in Media
    Unless media com­pa­nies step it up and total­ly change their view and abil­i­ties on prod­uct man­age­ment, they will be eat­en by tech and new play­ers. Only those that ful­ly embrace that prod­uct man­age­ment in media is the inter­sec­tion between jour­nal­ism, use…
  • Mood Boards (Or How to Bottle Your Inspiration)
    Often inspi­ra­tion is seen as a rare and mys­te­ri­ous com­mod­i­ty. Mood boards is a great way to put some process into an act that some­times appears miraculous.