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- 90 Creative Coming Soon Page Designs and Resources
“If you planning to launch new online project or your new site then coming soon pages can be handy tools for you as under construction page proven to get most out of these early announcements.
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- Navigate Files Like a Pro with These Finder Tips and Tricks
“Finder isn’t the most exciting thing about OS X, but it’s the backbone for how you navigate the operating system. It’s your file browser, your search engine, and your management area, but few of us really dig into everything it can do. With th…
- The 7 Key Components of a Knockout Infographic
“I love me a good infographic – especially when it’s an infographic about infographics. So when I came across this awesome one from Socially Sorted, I had to give it some love.
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- Amazingly Realistic Scale Model Photographer Recreates Any Scene on the Cheap
“For over 25 years, he has been creating an imaginary world called “Elgin Park,” filled with scaled models of old cars. They’re 1/24th the size to be exact. He chooses appropriate surroundings for these models, and then uses his camera to capture the most realistic shot possible. The kind of shot that you have no idea is within a tiny world.”
- 7 Tips For Great Selfies
“Whether you’re reconceptualizing your self-image or just giving a visual shout-out to your friends, here’s how to look your best.
” - How The Most Productive People Master Nonstop Travel
“A six-year veteran of Yelp, Miriam Warren established the user-generated review company’s London outpost and oversaw its European expansion, most recently into France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Swed…
- Fine Print: Fonts Designed for Small Text
“Type designed specifically for use at small sizes attempts to solve the problem of too much to say in too little space. When conserving resources (ink, paper, etc.) comes at the cost of legibility, it’s best to plan your type palette around faces made to perform below conventional text sizes. How will you know which faces hold up small? Here are a few principles to consider:
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- Desktop Design Principles Don’t Work for Mobile. Stop Using Them.
“There are several old desktop principles we’ve adopted in mobile design, and it may be time to reconsider them. The key to great design is understanding how people use different devices — and then designing for that functionality.
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- Do You Have Gadget Sickness?
Apple’s initial release of iOS 7 caused a flurry of user complaints that the mobile operating system was making them queasy. (“Note to self: get Dramamine,” Mia Farrow tweeted.) It’s not the only tech-induced ailment; office drones and teen phone addicts alike are coming down with illnesses as trendy as the devices that inflict them. According to recent research, that hunchback you’re developing might really be your cell phone’s fault.
- 3 Quick Ways To Finally Organize Your Inbox
“Is your email inbox getting the best of you? You’re not alone. Follow these 3 easy steps to get a handle on your email once and for all.”
- Craft a Leathery Text Effect in Photoshop
“So today, we are going to create a hanging leather text effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process of creating this text effect by using some interesting techniques, patterns, and tools. Let’s get started.
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- Creative Scan-and-Draw Color-Changing Pen Design
“Any artist or designer who works with color knows that the best inspiration and perfect coloration can often be found in real-life objects all around us. What if you could take your trusty drawing pen and simply scan any color you want and the…
- 15 Popular Logo Redesigns and Makeovers in 2013
“While some got so much attention in the design industry because of proper direction and execution in redesigning their logos, some went viral because of the striking negative feedback they received.
A change in company logo is a major aspect t… - 10 Highly Creative Packaging Designs
“Creative packaging is regarded as one of the most commonly seen illustration of graphic design. Aside from showcasing relevant and essential product properties, details and facts, the packaging is now a fundamental sales instrument as most consumers choose a product with creative, eye-catching packaging design when deciding on which products to buy. Therefore, having a captivating and exceptional and unique package design will make it a major competitive edge for companies and suppliers. The colors, illustration, typography and how items are wrapped and presented are just a few elements that designers need to pay attention to come up with an effective packaging which can impress the customers through it creativity. Here 10 eye-catching and informative pet product package designs for your inspiration.
” - Mastering The Art Of Conversation: 7 Steps To Being Smooth
“In The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure, Catherine Blyth gives some great tips on handling the subtle nuances of polite interaction.
Here are seven of my favorite bits:” - Mastering The Art Of Conversation: 7 Steps To Being Smooth
“In The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure, Catherine Blyth gives some great tips on handling the subtle nuances of polite interaction.
Here are seven of my favorite bits:” - 25 Best Free Fonts for Print and Web
“A good designer knows that print design and web design are like apples and oranges-what works for one medium may not work for the other. Nowhere is this more apparent than with fonts. Due to the limitations of some imprint methods, there are c…
- Business Card Design Ideas That Will Impress Your Clients
“We collected lots of different examples of business cards, whether they be extraordinary or super minimal. some which are trying to give off a clean and minimalistic look and others which give out a superb first impression.”
- 18 Tech Tools To Make You More Efficient At Work
“From scheduling and accounting to mobile payments and e‑commerce, here’s how to use the latest tech to help increase revenues and decrease headaches.
” - Opening Multiple Files from Lightroom as Smart Objects in One Photoshop Document
The ability to open multiple files from Lightroom into Photoshop as Smart Objects – and place them into a single document a significant amount of time when compositing. The only restriction is that you must first open a document in Photoshop. Since I typically work with a blank canvas to begin with, this requirement doesn’t bother me. Once you have your Photoshop document open, select the images in Lightroom (yes, you will have to be in Normal screen mode in Lightroom to do this) and drag and drop them on top of the open Photoshop document. Each image will be placed one at a time – displaying transformation handles for resizing to the desired size upon placement.
- ‘Preferred’ Pronouns Gain Traction at US Colleges
““Because I go to an all-women’s college, a lot of people are like, ‘If you don’t identify as a woman, how did you get in?’ ” said sophomore Skylar Crownover, 19, who is president of Mouthing Off! and prefers to be mentioned as a singular they, …
- ‘Preferred’ Pronouns Gain Traction at US Colleges
““Because I go to an all-women’s college, a lot of people are like, ‘If you don’t identify as a woman, how did you get in?’ ” said sophomore Skylar Crownover, 19, who is president of Mouthing Off! and prefers to be mentioned as a singular they, …
- Get A Raise: 10 Steps For Getting Your Boss To Think You’re The Best
“People always want to know how to ask for a raise. 99% of whether you get a raise has nothing to do with wording.
” - Blinkist Summarizes Important Parts of Books for Quick Learnings
“If you can’t find the time to read the whole book, Blinkist takes you through the most important parts of non-fiction writing. The app is entirely human-powered, summarizing learnings from the book in simple language, shortened for a quick rea…
- 9 Tips for a Better Company Culture
“We spoke with nine entrepreneurs to get their tips for building a great team and retaining the talent. Have any more tips? Let us know in the comments below.
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- How to Become a Reliable Person
“These seem like common sense principles, but if you stretch them out, you can see how they end up affecting your money and your life. Reliable people in general tend to build stronger relationships and find more secure employment (there are always exceptions, of course). When you actually look around your community and see which people have built a strong and sustainable life for themselves, you’re generally seeing reliable people.”
- Corgi on a Carousel Is the Only Video You Need to Watch
“If there is one video on the entire Internet that you desperately need in your life right now, it’s the one of a five-year-old Corgi named Meatball merrily scampering around a homemade merry-go-round.”
- Check the Newspaper Before Meetings for Better Body Language
“If you have a big meeting or job interview coming up, sit back and read a newspaper instead of checking out your smartphone or laptop. The change in posture alone can help you be more confident in your interaction, Forbes says.”
- Digital Magazine Startup Magzter Raises $10M To Fuel Global Growth #dps
New York-based Magzter, a startup founded in 2011 to help magazine publishers get their pubs in the hands of digital readers, regardless of which platform they choose to use to read. In two years of operation, the company has managed to rack up over 900 publisher partners and put out over 2,850 issues of magazines, the company says, all powered by its proprietary web-based simple publishing tool, which pushes out editions to iOS, Google Play, Windows 8, the web and both Amazon and Huawei’s dedicated app stores all at once.
- 10 Strange Ways You’re Making Everyone Hate You
“Ever since the kid in the grade above us kicked the ball right in our face for no damn reason, most of us have understood that humans love to hate. Throughout history, anything from having the wrong color of skin to the wrong kind of hair has been enough to get you attacked, enslaved, or outright murdered. While we in the present may be less likely to murder someone over a trivial difference, we’re still pretty good at that whole “hate” thing, as seen by our apparent desire to loathe people for these ridiculously minor reasons.”
- 24 Flat Designs with Compelling Color Palettes
“From iOS7 to websites, there’s evidence everywhere we look that flat isn’t going anywhere. However, flat doesn’t mean there’s no dimension. In fact, a number of these 24 sites have a lot of depth and layers. And flat designs definitely have fantastic color palettes that include both bold & muted tones.”
- Why Teleconference Technology Is Still In The Middle Ages
“Have you ever considered how archaic it is to use a phone number in 2013? One company predicts we’ll soon be using screen names even on the phone.
” - 10 Life Lessons You Can Learn From The Smartest Older People
“Before the 50th reunion of Harvard Business School’s class of 1963 they asked them what lessons they would pass on to younger people.
” - How to Code OpenType Features in CSS Code
“OpenType layout features are typographic extras built into fonts, involving substituting different glyphs or repositioning glyphs to achieve better typography. OpenType features include things such as kerning, ligatures, small caps, oldstyle figures, and many more things. Support for such goodies is part of CSS 3. However, support for these CSS 3 features has been uneven in web browsers until recently—notably lacking is IE 9 and earlier. CanIUse.com has the latest gory details. As of this writing:
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- From Having Sex to Banana Peeling – 10 Everyday Things We’re Doing Completely Incorrectly
“Let’s face it—life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. For most of us, each day is an attempt to get from one end to the other without messing up too badly or, at the least, getting noticed doing so. So it’s understandable that while we get the majority of it right, there are some common activities we’re still just trying to do our best at. The following list is a handy guide to those parts of life where the way we’ve always done it may not be the best.”
- Brilliant, DIY Minimal Business Cards on the Go Tool
“The ever-clever Mikey Burton has come up with a fun idea that I just may try out. He was asked to participate in the “Designer Challenge” for the October issue of Computer Arts Projects and was tasked to put a new spin on traditional business cards. So his idea was to pare down a card to the absolute essentials: name, website and possibly a stylized bear illustration, and print it in a unique way.
” - WordPress 3.8 – What’s New and Why It Matters
“This week’s release of WordPress 3.8 named “Parker” after jazz legend Charlie Parker shows that the platform (and its developers) take this responsibility seriously and aim to further simplify web publishing for everyone. You can download it right now from WordPress.org or upgrade your existing WordPress site directly from the dashboard.
Let’s dive in and take a closer look at the WordPress 3.8 release:”
- WordPress 3.8 – What’s New and Why It Matters
“This week’s release of WordPress 3.8 named “Parker” after jazz legend Charlie Parker shows that the platform (and its developers) take this responsibility seriously and aim to further simplify web publishing for everyone. You can download it right now from WordPress.org or upgrade your existing WordPress site directly from the dashboard.
Let’s dive in and take a closer look at the WordPress 3.8 release:”
- Google Wants To Make Your Passwords Obsolete
“If Google has its way, however, the very notion of typing in a password may soon be obsolete. In 2014, the Internet giant plans to release an ultra-secure and easy to use identity verification platform that eliminates the need for long, user-generated passwords.…if someone wanted to login surreptitiously to your account, he or she would need to know your username and PIN while simultaneously having physical possession of that specific YubiKey Neo.”
- You’ll Make More Money If You Can Code
“Adda Birnir noticed a gender divide between a media company’s business and technical side (read: men) versus the editorial side (read: women). She created online tech education platform Skillcrush to give women a way to learn marketable skills…
- What is Creative Cloud for teams? [Video]
“If you’ve heard about Adobe Creative Cloud for teams, but aren’t so sure what’s it all about, then take a look at this animation to learn more.”
- 5 Creative Ways to Market Yourself as a Designer
“But not to worry. Marketing doesn’t have to mean countless hours spent pitching yourself at one boring business networking group after another. In fact, there are plenty of ways to market that just might get those creative juices flowing in unexpected ways. You might actually enjoy yourself—I know!. Let’s take a look a number of interesting and stimulating ways to get your work to your potential customers.
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- Latest DPS Stats Show Rapid Growth in Circulation and Readership
“This growth in circulation, readership and engagement are clear indicators that digital magazines are creating opportunities for magazine publishers to transform their business by generating readership around the world and attracting high valu…
- 40 Awesome Vintage Inspired Designs
“This showcase is made up of a great mix of vintage-themed designs that will get you creatively inspired.
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- Pinterest and Its Public API
“And the company says this is just the beginning for outside apps that interface directly with its social network.
” - How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, And Rose Again
“HTML5 was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But that doesn’t mean it won’t.
” - ‘Plastic Bodies’ Photo Series By Sheila Pree Bright Will Make You Think Differently About Beauty
“We’ve seen what a Barbie doll would look like if modeled after the average 19-year-old woman. But when you juxtapose a doll’s facial features with a real woman’s, the results are startling.
That’s what photographer Sheila Pree Bright did in h…
- 7 Bootstrapping Tips for the Resourceful Small Business
“Small businesses must be resourceful to stay afloat. With smaller budgets, big ideas need to be as proactive as they are cost-efficient, taking into account everything from consistent industry changes, cash flow, customer needs and the unexpec…