Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 6 February 2015

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

  • 7 Reasons why you should NOT use Hootsuite

    Hootsuite* is one of the most pop­u­lar and com­pre­hen­sive social media tools out there. cYes, there are oth­ers such as TweetDeck and SproutSocial, but Hootsuite is con­sid­ered by many as the “crème de la crème” of the Social Media Tools World. I have used it for many years and I still occa­sion­al­ly rec­om­mend for my clients. HootSuite is a ser­vice referred to as a “Social Media Management Tool”. A Social Media Management System or Tool (SMMS/SMMT) can help you man­age your many social chan­nels by mon­i­tor­ing, post­ing and del­e­gat­ing tasks with­in a team.

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  • Accepting Bitcoin Payments with WordPress
    We review accept­ing Bitcoin pay­ments on your WordPress sites as pay­ment for goods and ser­vices, and why it can be a great option for busi­ness­es to consider.
  • Pond5 launch­es free stock-footage archives with 10k clips, 65k pho­tos, and more
    The first phase of the Public Domain Project includes 10,000 video clips, 65,000 pho­tos, thou­sands of sound record­ings and hun­dreds of 3‑D models.Tags: stock
  • Experience Rot – The More Features You Add to Your Design, the More it Hurts
    Welcome to the effects of Experience Rot. As you add fea­tures, you’re adding com­plex­i­ty to the design, and decreas­ing the qual­i­ty of the experience.

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  • Top 10 Valentine’s Day cards from inde­pen­dent artists and designers

    If you’re start­ing to pon­der over what to pur­chase for your loved one this year, then take a look at our top 10 Valentine’s Day cards from inde­pen­dent artists and design­ers. Because let’s face it, a supermarket-bought card will nev­er quite cut it.

  • Top Resources to Learn Design Thinking Online
    Companies such as Apple, Toyota, Virgin and oth­ers pro­vide proof that apply­ing design think­ing in the inno­va­tion process can make changes not only by cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties, but also by build­ing a bet­ter future for peo­ple by dai­ly problems.
  • Customizing the OS X Menu Bar

    In this tuto­r­i­al, we’ll go through the process of cus­tomiz­ing and remov­ing third-party and Mac OS X sys­tem menu bar icons, look at how to replace appli­ca­tion and sys­tem menu bar icons with your own and try out a cou­ple of third-party appli­ca­tions for man­ag­ing your menu bar. If you don’t like the Apple menu icon, we’ll even take a swing at hid­ing that, too.

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  • How to Run a Pinterest Contest Without Breaking the Rules

    After many busi­ness­es mis­used the relaxed for­mat, Pinterest revised its con­test rules. They now require con­tests be easy to enter, spam-free and in align­ment with Pinterest brand­ing guidelines.

    In this arti­cle I’ll explain what you need to know to run suc­cess­ful and com­pli­ant Pinterest con­tests.

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  • 45 Free Popup, Alert Window, Notification, Photoshop Designs
    In this round up, you will find 45 free noti­fi­ca­tion, pop­up and alert win­dows PSD files that will be use­ful in your design project.Tags: Photoshop Templates
  • Color Scheme Tool Accounts For Color Blindness

    After choos­ing your col­ors, Color Scheme by Pixy let’s you pre­view the col­ors as if through the eyes of peo­ple with var­i­ous types of color-blindnessprotanopy (which affects 1% of men), deuter­a­nopy (anoth­er 1% of men), deuter­a­nom­aly (which affects 5% of men and 0.4% of women), as well as five oth­er types of color-blindness.

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