Design Business Links 18 February 2014

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

  • Show, Don’t Tell is the Mantra: The Triumph Of The Visual Web

    Prior to 2013, many folks con­sid­ered the Visual Web a fleet­ing trend that wouldn’t stick around. Here are some of the news­wor­thy moments that con­vinced the tech world otherwise.

  • Through a Face Scanner, Darkly : The New Yorker

    NameTag, an app built for Google Glass by a com­pa­ny called FacialNetwork​.com, offers a face scan­ner for encoun­ters with strangers. You see some­body on the side­walk and, slip­ping on your high-tech spec­ta­cles, select the app. Snap a pho­to of a passer­by, then wait a minute as the image is sent up to the company’s data­base and a match is hunt­ed down. The results load in front of your left eye, a selec­tion of per­son­al details that might include someone’s name, occu­pa­tion, Facebook and/or Twitter pro­file, and, con­ve­nient­ly, whether there’s a cor­re­spond­ing entry in the nation­al sex-offender registry.

  • 10 mag­i­cal­ly metic­u­lous design style guides
    “Draw inspi­ra­tion from these big-brand style guides – a logo and typog­ra­phy obses­sive’s dream!

  • Better Web Typography in 13 Simple Steps
    “Web typog­ra­phy on the web is not as daunt­ing as you may think. One can go a long way with a few basic tips.

  • How to get your first job in web design

    Whether you’re a stu­dent or recent grad­u­ate, a design­er or devel­op­er, it can be hard to break into the web indus­try. Rachel Shillcock shares her top tips on mak­ing your mark

  • Retailers Using Facial Recognition to Catch Shoplifters AND Track Frequent Shoppers
    “Facial recog­ni­tion tech­nol­o­gy, already employed by some retail stores to spot and thwart shoplifters, may soon be used to iden­ti­fy and track the freest spenders in the aisles.

  • What Machines Can’t Do – Affecting Writers, Designers, and Everyone Else

    In the news busi­ness, some of those skills are already evi­dent. Technology has reward­ed sprint­ers (peo­ple who can rec­og­nize and alert­ly post a mes­sage on Twitter about some inter­est­ing imme­di­ate event) and marathon­ers (peo­ple who can write large con­cep­tu­al sto­ries), but it has hurt middle-distance run­ners (peo­ple who write 800-word sum­maries of yesterday’s news con­fer­ence). Technology has reward­ed graph­ic artists who can visu­al­ize data, but it has pun­ished those who can’t turn writ­ten report­ing into video presentations.”

  • 10 com­mon Photoshop mis­takes (and how to avoid them)
    “We all like to think we’re Photoshop gurus, but is there room for improve­ment? We list the com­mon errors that pre­vent design­ers real­is­ing their cre­ative potential.

  • Design Your Own Business, Ep. 2: Finding and Keeping Clients [Video] #DYOB

    This episode is enti­tled “How to Find Clients and Build Client Relationships That Last,” dur­ing which host Pariah Burke and guests discuss…

    Not-so-obvious ways to find new clients.
    Making the most of the tried and true ways of find­ing new clients.
    Attracting new clients so that they find you.
    Keeping clients once you’ve got them.
    Building long-term, prof­itable client-vendor relationships.”

  • Design’s Next Big Frontier? Shaping Behavior In Real Time
    “IF CES PROVED ANYTHING, IT’S THAT DESIGNERS FINALLY HAVE THE TOOLS TO TRULY INFLUENCE BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS. WATCH OUT, WORLD.