Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 June 2014

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

  • The New York Times’ Digital Editions are Crushing the Print Editions

    Most of The New York Times’ reach comes from its dig­i­tal audi­ence. Regardless of the met­ric, view­ers on desk­tops and mobile are crush­ing print readers.

  • Using Alternate Characters in Type Setting

    Swash char­ac­ters are vari­a­tions of the stan­dard, default char­ac­ters in a type­face. They are designed as options for cus­tomiz­ing the look and per­son­al­i­ty of both text and dis­play set­tings. More and more type­faces are designed with alter­nate char­ac­ters, thanks to the expand­ed char­ac­ter capac­i­ty of OpenType® technology.

  • Why We Need Infographics (and How to Make Them Great)

    Designer Thomas Porostocky, founder of cre­ative agency TOM, believes in the pow­er of info­graph­ics. When he talks about them, the enthu­si­asm in his voice is imme­di­ate­ly notice­able. He’s also real­ly good at cre­at­ing them. Having worked with Wired, the New York Times, Nike, IBM, and oth­ers, Porostocky is in great demand for his abil­i­ty to cre­ate beau­ti­ful visu­als that make com­plex infor­ma­tion and process­es easy to understand.

  • 30 Examples of Funny Ads for Your Ad Design Inspiration

    One approach for ad design­ers to cap­ture the atten­tion and inter­est of view­ers is to use humor. Most of us will stop and pay atten­tion to ads if they grab our atten­tion and make us laugh.

    In this post we’ll show­case 30 exam­ples of adver­tise­ments that user humor to make an impact on viewers.

  • 3 Things Every New Instructional Designer Needs to Know

    Many of you are tran­si­tion­ing from tra­di­tion­al class­room train­ing to devel­op­ing online train­ing. That means you need to learn new soft­ware and pro­duc­tion tech­niques, as well as new ways to design your courses.

    This tran­si­tion can be a bit con­fus­ing and a source of stress. So today I’ll share a few of the tips I share at my work­shops for new elearn­ing developers.

  • Getting vul­ner­a­ble about your pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness is like being naked. Here are some clothes.

    I think it is impor­tant to note that we all have free­dom in our busi­ness choic­es, what works for some may not for oth­ers but there are foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ples that apply across the board. So here are two main issues y’all men­tioned that I want­ed to address! Being vul­ner­a­ble about some­thing as pri­vate as run­ning our busi­ness is like being phys­i­cal­ly naked. So here are some arti­cles of cloth­ing (advice) to help you get cov­ered up some and move towards your goals!

  • Replacing Fixed Position, Always-Shown Top Nav Bar with the Scroll Up Bar in Web Design and UI

    An inter­est­ing way to solve the issue is to hide the bar when scrolling down, and show it when scrolling up. On mobile inter­faces, where space is pre­cious, this tech­nique is used to hide chrome, such as Web brows­er con­trols, but it’s also a good pat­tern to use on the Web. For exam­ple, Medium has just updat­ed their new nav­i­ga­tion bar. As you scroll down, the bar goes away, but it can be revealed at any time by scrolling up. Here’s what it looks like:

  • An Idea of a Typeface
    Aware that there is no such thing as total neu­tral­i­ty, Neutral type­face explores how the absence of styl­is­tic asso­ci­a­tions can help the read­er to engage with the con­tent of a text.

Curated by Pariah Burke