Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 5 September 2014

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

  • Workspace Design Trends To Increase Your Productivity
    Your office needs more nooks, less sit­ting. Give your employ­ees a space they look for­ward to com­ing to.
  • Dear Web Font Providers…
    We need more than access to thou­sands of Web fonts. Frankly, we need access to high-quality, appro­pri­ate Web fonts. And we need to be able to find them.
  • Precrastinating” And Why It’s Just As Bad As Procrastinating
    A precrastinator–one who com­pletes tasks in advance–may think they’re beat­ing pro­cras­ti­na­tors at their own game, but that’s not true.
  • Adobe InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out
    Here are some tips I wish I had known when start­ing out, as well as some answers to ques­tions that oth­ers often ask me. This is not intend­ed to be a man­u­al; some good ones are already out there (although I per­son­al­ly learned by doing). Hopefull…
  • Adobe InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out
    Here are some tips I wish I had known when start­ing out, as well as some answers to ques­tions that oth­ers often ask me. This is not intend­ed to be a man­u­al; some good ones are already out there (although I per­son­al­ly learned by doing). Hopefull…
  • 21 of the Best Lessons for Your Creative Career
    While some of the lessons Wyndowe gives us are undoubt­ed­ly time­less (and wide­ly, reg­u­lar­ly shared), some are def­i­nite­ly great reminders of what mat­ters most for us in our cre­ative careers. Wyndowe reminds us of this fact with the final tid­bit o…
  • Breaking! WordPress 4.0 Just Released!
    On September 4, 2014, WordPress Version 4.0, named for jazz musi­cian Benny Goodman, was released to the pub­lic. For more infor­ma­tion on this enhance­ment and bug-fix release, read the WordPress Blog, and see the Changelog for 4.0.

    For Version 4…

  • Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Cards Break Down Creative Blocks

    The deck is the brain­child of musi­cian and artist Brian Eno—most read­i­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Roxy Music, David Bowie, and Talking Heads. Devised in con­junc­tion with artist Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies’ aim is to encour­age lat­er­al think­ing. For exam­ple “Try fak­ing it!”, “What to increase? What to reduce?”, and “Don’t be afraid of things because they’re easy to do”.

  • How to Use Typographic Vertical Rhythm to Your Advantage
    Typography is a big part of any design, espe­cial­ly web or app design. Vertical rhythm is the align­ment of lines of text in terms of text size and the spac­ing between the lines. It is often used to orga­nize text and make it more leg­i­ble; in turn…
  • Why don’t authors com­pete? A quick les­son in build­ing trust and com­mu­ni­ty for your brand from Seth Godin.
    Yet, not only do authors get along, they spend time and ener­gy blurb­ing each oth­er’s books. Authors don’t try to elim­i­nate oth­ers from the shelf, in fact, they seek out the most crowd­ed shelves they can find to place their books. They eager­ly p…
  • Improve Your Email Workflow With Modular Design

    Whether you’re in a Fortune 500 com­pa­ny or part a two-person team launch­ing your first web app, email is one of the most impor­tant tools for reach­ing your cus­tomer base. But with the ever-growing num­ber of emails to send, get­ting them all out the door can seem a lit­tle over­whelm­ing. By putting in place a sol­id email design work­flow, you’ll be able to reg­u­lar­ly ship engag­ing and mobile-friendly emails with ease.

  • The 4 Most Ridiculous Emails in Your Inbox—and How to Answer Them

    Every now and again, I’ll receive one of those emails that makes me say: “Huh?” My face con­torts into an expres­sion of mas­sive con­fu­sion, and I’m left not quite sure what to respond. I can tell from the length or the con­tent of the email that a response is need­ed, but some­thing about the mes­sage has made even get­ting start­ed on a response a huge headache.

    For those days where you’re faced with a sim­i­lar conun­drum, here’s my advice: Do not engage the non-sensical email, and throw it back in the oth­er person’s court instead.

    To help you out, I’ve com­piled my sug­gest­ed respons­es to the four most com­mon types of con­fus­ing emails I receive. 

  • Get Stolen Naked Photos Off the Web
    Why should it be easy to take down Guardians of the Galaxy and impos­si­ble to delete stolen nude pho­tos of Jennifer Lawrence? Congress needs to change the law to force Reddit and 4Chan to do the right thing.