Creative Community Bulletin 3 January 2014

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

• The Difference Between High Achievers and the Unsuccessful Is Grit

  “Perhaps even more than talent or sheer luck, “grit” is the one quality that sets high achievers apart from everyone else. And there are ways we can cultivate it in ourselves.”

• Value Engineering For Designers, Keeping Clients Coming Back

  “While those are all tactics that are common to help bring in customers and get the excited about your work, excitement will only last for so long. One thing that will last and keep clients coming back is if you practice the concept of value en…

• 4 Ways Digital Technology Boosts Innovation…And 4 Ways It Hinders

  “AND FOUR WAYS IT HINDERS IT. HERE, WE CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE ON BOTH SIDES.”

• Eye Tracking 101: How Your Eyes Move on a Website

  “Knowing how the viewers of your site really see it can help to shine light on new and/or missed opportunities within your current design. It may also bring out the need for new elements or changes.

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• The One Thing That Truly Motivates Creative Talent–And How To Foster It

  “Intrinsic motivation is the mojo that breathes life into curiosity and lifelong learning, into building new and better skills, into making individually defined talent level bloom into something of value to the whole. It pushes us to go beyond …

• Facebook Tracks When You Don’t Publish a Status or Comment, Doesn’t Like You Self-Censoring

  “So Facebook considers your thoughtful discretion about what to post as bad, because it withholds value from Facebook and from other users. Facebook monitors those unposted thoughts to better understand them, in order to build a system that minimizes this deliberate behavior. This feels dangerously close to “ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN,” a motto of the eponymous dystopian Internet company in Dave Eggers’ recent novel The Circle.”

• Hyperrealistic Pastel Drawings of Greenland

  “Greenland is an absolutely beautiful place to visit as you can see from this collection of artwork. The only thing is you’re not actually looking at pictures from a camera, but rather some of the most photorealistic drawings you will ever see!

  Check out these amazing lifelike Greenland illustrations created by artist Zaria Forman below:”

• The Year the Book Became a Luxury Object

  “As e-books strip down and physical books class up, there’s one reason left to buy the paper kind: beauty”

• Seven Clever Ways to Use Your Phone’s Camera for More Than Just Photos

  “Smartphone cameras keep getting better and better, but they can do more than just take beautiful photos. They can turn your smartphone into a translator, product price matcher, a scanner, and more. You just need to know how to use it.” …

• The Surprising Reason We Have a 40-Hour Work Week (and Why We Should Re-Think It)

  “Surprisingly, Ford didn’t do it for scientific reasons (or solely for the health of his employees). Rather, one of the main reasons he came up with the idea to reduce the working hours of his staff was so employees would have enough free time to go out and realize they needed to buy stuff.”

Curated by Pariah Burke