Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 September 2014

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

  • Save to Behance from Inside Photoshop CC

    In Photoshop choos­ing File > Share to Behance allows you to upload the cur­rent­ly select­ed doc­u­ment as a Work in Progress to share with (and gath­er feed­back from), your social media chan­nels includ­ing Twitter and Facebook. The key ben­e­fit is that you don’t have to flat­ten or resize the image – the plug-in takes care of it for you so that you can con­tin­ue working!

  • 3 Ways To Redesign Breaking News
    weak­ing the UX of our social media tools could help read­ers bet­ter under­stand fast-moving news.

    Tags:

    UX

    UI

  • The Science of Side Projects: How Creative Hobbies Improve Our Performance at Everything

    The good news: You don’t have to cre­ate a million-dollar com­pa­ny to get your time’s worth from a side project or cre­ative hobby.

    Spending your time in this way can make you hap­pi­er, health­i­er, and more productive.”

  • Why Wireframing and Prototyping Matter To You

    Take a sec­ond and think about your inter­net usage. How much time do you spend online a day? How many emails do you receive a day? How many web­sites do you vis­it? If you’re any­thing like the typ­i­cal media con­sumer who spends most of their time online the num­bers might astound you. For me I can list the top sites and apps I spend the most time on – Facebook, Pinterest, Gmail, Feedly, CNN, BBC, WCPO, WLWT, Blackboard, and Amazon. I hit up each of these places at least once a day and often mul­ti­ple times a day & that’s not even includ­ing the links off of Facebook, Pinterest, Gmail, and Feedly. Between work, school, and play I aver­age over 100 dif­fer­ent web­sites a day and you’re prob­a­bly not as far behind as you think.

  • Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good
    Colors are impor­tant to mak­ing things look good, whether it’s the clothes you wear or the pre­sen­ta­tion you give at work. But not every­one instinc­tive­ly knows that orange and blue is a per­fect com­bi­na­tion. If you can’t trust your own judgement, …
  • Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good
    Colors are impor­tant to mak­ing things look good, whether it’s the clothes you wear or the pre­sen­ta­tion you give at work. But not every­one instinc­tive­ly knows that orange and blue is a per­fect com­bi­na­tion. If you can’t trust your own judgement, …
  • How To Come Back To Work After A Vacation Without Being Miserable
    Work after a long vaca­tion is like Monday on steroids. Here’s how to tack­le the work that’s piled up–even your over­flow­ing inbox.
  • 10 Safety Hacks Every Woman Who Travels Alone Should Know
    You’re a woman trav­el­ing alone. Perhaps you’re trav­el­ing on busi­ness or you’re just find­ing your­self. Keep your wits about you and you could have an adven­ture worth telling. Here are some dos and don’ts to help you nav­i­gate your way through …
  • Free! Exclusive! Multimedia Designer Icon Set in PSD, AI, EPS from Pariah Burke

    Courtesy of our friends over at Vecteezy, IAmPariah​.com is giv­ing away an exclu­sive set of 36 mul­ti­me­dia icons free for per­sonal and com­mer­cial use. The icons them­selves are a styl­ized retro stick­er motif that stand out well from usu­al icon sets. 

  • There’s A Style Guide for That (Writers)

    Authors who spe­cial­ize in one field of knowl­edge are some­times unaware of style guides used in oth­er areas. In writ­ing for DWT, I most­ly rely on these three style guides: The Chicago Manual of Style The AP Stylebook Penguin Writer’s Manual Chicago is direct­ed at a broad audi­ence that includes both schol­ars and entre­pre­neurs. AP is tar­get­ed specif­i­cal­ly to jour­nal­ists. CMOS and AP rec­om­men­da­tions don’t often dif­fer, but when they do, the dif­fer­ences some­times reflect an inter­est­ing divide between schol­ar­ly and pop­u­lar usage. I trust the Penguin ref­er­ence guides to point me to dif­fer­ences between American and British usage. … 

  • A (Proven) Freelancer’s Guide to Growing Your Business

    When it’s laid out like that, you can see the obvi­ous­ly flaws. And yet, this is how a lot of free­lancers try to start work­ing for them­selves. They think that sim­ply being good at what they do is enough to have clients knock­ing down their door.

    There’s a bet­ter way:”

  • How to Use Neuroscience Findings to Improve Conversions

    Neuroscience is basi­cal­ly a sci­en­tif­ic study of the human brain and ner­vous sys­tem. It explains how our brain works and how it reacts to dif­fer­ent stim­uli. Obviously mar­ket­ing peo­ple were the first to take advan­tage of these find­ings and that’s how neu­ro­mar­ket­ing was born.

    Needless to say, user expe­ri­ence is very close­ly relat­ed to mar­ket­ing dis­ci­pline and we can even refer to it as the “cus­tomer expe­ri­ence on the web”. While most of neu­ro­mar­ket­ing and neu­ro­science find­ings can be applied to UX, there is also plen­ty of user behav­ior data from advanced usabil­i­ty studies.

  • Simple But Powerful Free Handwritten Fonts
    We have done the hard work and hand­picked Simple But Powerful Free Handwritten Fonts for your fun and per­son­al­ized designs. With these addi­tion­al resources, you can gain more flex­i­bil­i­ty in your designs. They are all free to down­load so have fu…
  • 5 Facebook Threats That Can Infect Your Computer, And How They Work

    Do you remem­ber how life was with­out Facebook? Probably not. The site has per­vad­ed our lives and it is no sur­prise that Facebook is now prime hunt­ing ground for any­one with nefar­i­ous intentions.

    They employ stealth and cun­ning, like a preda­tor stalk­ing its prey, look­ing for the slight­est weak­ness to pounce on you. By sim­ply vis­it­ing Facebook, you poten­tial­ly expose your­self to virus­es and mal­ware. Criminals can make you take some unin­tend­ed action, steal your data, spy on you or “enslave” your PC for their own ille­gal ends such as launch­ing DDOS attacks.

    We take you through some of these Facebook threats and out­line the pre­cau­tions you should take to avoid becom­ing anoth­er sta­tis­tic of cyber crime.

  • Everything You Need To Know About Responsive Design – The Theoretical Side
    The con­cept of respon­sive design has been around for quite a few years but it is in the past two years, respon­sive design has real­ly become the talk of the town. Almost every­where you see design­ers and web­site own­ers are talk­ing about responsiv…
  • Why Having a Blog is so Important for Freelance Designers

    With com­pe­ti­tion ris­ing among design­ers, using social media is more impor­tant than ever, espe­cial­ly hav­ing your own blog to help spot­light your tal­ent and abil­i­ties. A blog can not only show your work but your thought process, knowl­edge and pro­fes­sion­al demeanor… if it’s done correctly!

  • Download Free Master Client Logo Sheet Template
    I have set­tled on this style of Client Logo Sheet for pro­vid­ing, and pre­sent­ing, my own clients with the fin­ished logo files. Each one has a few bits of use­ful infor­ma­tion, such as: the colour mode used in Illustrator, either RGB or CMYK and li…
  • Inspiration – 30 Web Designs Featuring Pop Out Navigation Menus

    Once upon a time nav­i­ga­tion menus were con­stant­ly anchored in place along the top or side of a web design, but nowa­days as Javascript and CSS ani­ma­tions are becom­ing more pop­u­lar, we’re start­ing to see dif­fer­ent UI approach­es when it comes to direct­ing your users to where they want to go. The “ham­burg­er” icon has become the recog­nised metaphor for menu, which allows design­ers to hide away their links until they’re need­ed. Today’s post fea­tures 30+ mod­ern web­site designs which make use of pop out nav­i­ga­tion, these sites clev­er­ly bring the menu into view using slide-in or over­lay effects.

  • Dedesign the Web – Wireframe & Website Design Trivia Game
    Dedesign the Web is a quick and fun game where you guess a web­site by look­ing at its wire­frame below.
  • Noto, a Font Family Designed to Support All the World’s Languages (from Google)

    Noto is Google’s font fam­i­ly that aims to sup­port all the world’s lan­guages. Its design goal is to achieve visu­al har­mo­niza­tion across lan­guages. Noto fonts are under Apache License 2.0.

  • Getting Started With Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    Why would you need an email ser­vice though? Well, with many host­ing providers, send­ing a lot of emails (per­haps you have a great deal of cus­tomers using your web shop) can be an issue as hosts tend to have lim­i­ta­tions. The stan­dard alternative …
  • Foreground Lighting Photoshop Tutorial
    Improve your por­traits with this easy and effec­tive fore­ground light­ing effect. In this Photoshop tuto­r­i­al, you will learn how to dim the back­ground to add focus to the sub­ject. This effect may sound sim­ple, but it does an excep­tion­al job fixin…
  • The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup

    Slack’s chat func­tion is a tro­jan horse for big­ger ideas. It wants to over­see all your oth­er busi­ness software.

  • Labor Day: Created in Six Days From Collective Guilt and a Stubborn Landlord
    Labor Day was cre­at­ed to sup­pos­ed­ly hon­or the American work­er but was passed in record time in 1887 by a Congress and pres­i­dent with a guilty-conscience.