Design Business Links 28 April 2014

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

  • Wikipedia Redesign Concept by George Kvasnikov

    Wikipedia is one of the most vis­it­ed web­sites in the world. It hasn’t been changed or rede­fined dur­ing the last 10 years. The web and its tech­nolo­gies has devel­oped fur­ther and so his users.”

  • New ways to take Adobe Illustrator CC art­work to any screen by Terry White
    “Terry White does a HOW DesignCast on using Adobe Illustrator CC to cre­ate graph­ics for web, mobile and print design. Learn how to cre­ate CSS from Illustrator, use Symbols to stream­line your work­flow and NEW fea­tures intro­duced in Illustrator C…
  • Why People Believe Weird Things and 8 Ways to Change Their Minds

    Correcting mis­in­for­ma­tion is cog­ni­tive­ly indis­tin­guish­able from mis­in­form­ing peo­ple to replace their pre­ex­ist­ing cor­rect beliefs. It fol­lows that it is impor­tant for the gen­er­al pub­lic to have a basic under­stand­ing of mis­in­for­ma­tion effects… Widespread aware­ness of the fact that peo­ple may “throw mud” because they know it will “stick”…will con­tribute to a well-informed populace.”

  • Best hand­writ­ing note apps for iPad: Notability, Penultimate, Noteshelf, and more!
    “The iPad paired with a sty­lus can make a great not-taking alter­na­tive to tra­di­tion­al pen and paper. From writ­ing out math prob­lems to scrib­bling down ideas to tak­ing notes, some­times hand­writ­ing is just so much more nat­ur­al and effi­cient than …
  • So What’s the Big Deal with Horizontal & Vertical Bezier Handles Anyway? #Illustrator

    Have you ever seen Illustrator progress shots from your favourite design­ers and won­dered how and why their bezi­er han­dles are so obses­sive­ly arranged? We’re hop­ing to shed a lit­tle light on this seem­ing­ly unnec­es­sary process. Note: this tuto­r­i­al assumes a sol­id grasp of Illustrator & the pen tool.”

  • Letter to a Junior Designer from a Veteran Designer

    But for now, I can cling to my sole advan­tage, the one thing that makes me more valu­able: I get results. I can put a dent in cast-iron CEO argu­ments. I can spot risks and com­pli­ca­tions months in advance. In the wager that is design, I usu­al­ly bet on the right col­or. People trust me with their stake.

    So, if you’ll humor me, maybe I can offer a few sug­ges­tions to speed you toward the inevitable.

  • The Future of Facebook May Not Say ‘Facebook’. Zuck Talks About ‘Unbundling’ Facebook

    “What we’re doing with Creative Labs is basi­cal­ly unbundling the big blue app,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in a recent inter­view at the firm’s head­quar­ters in Menlo Park, Calif.”