The Week in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 9 May 2014

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

  • Why Motivating Others Starts With Using The Right Language

    The sev­en mem­bers of the offers team gath­ered for their week­ly standup at the New York-based tech­nol­o­gy start­up. There had been mis­con­nects the pre­vi­ous week with the email mar­ket­ing team and the design team result­ing in an incon­sis­tent mes­sage that didn’t show­case some of the best offers the group had worked to secure.

  • How To Get People To Help You Succeed
    “Give peo­ple what they want and they will give you what you want. That state­ment has been word­ed hun­dreds of dif­fer­ent ways, but they all mean the same thing:
  • Using Appropriatism to Shape Your Work

    On his blog, illus­tra­tor and writer Frank Chimero explores the notion of “Appropriatism,” the con­cept of adding and remov­ing just the right amount of things from your work envi­ron­ment in order to dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve your effi­cien­cy and cre­ativ­i­ty. It’s not min­i­miz­ing and it’s not max­i­miz­ing, it’s some­where in-between. Frank shares the five ideals of Appropriatism and how they help cre­ate a worth­while work­ing environment:

  • How To Work Towards Becoming Your Own Boss
    “Here are the steps you need to take to become your own boss.
  • How do web experts man­age cross-platform test­ing workflows?
    “How do you go about test­ing your respon­sive designs? We ask our pan­el of experts to reveal their workflows.

  • How to Leverage Client Appreciation Events as Part of Your Marketing Strategy

    One day it occurred to me that I should use these events as oppor­tu­ni­ties to meet some of their friends and clients.
    So I start­ed invit­ing just one client, but offer­ing the client the oth­er two tick­ets as well so they could invite some of their friends. I call this “The 3 for 1” and it works out like this:”

  • Celebrating the Beauty of Letterpress

    It’s no sur­prise that design­ers of all walks are enam­ored by let­ter­press print­ing. There’s the tac­til­i­ty, pre­ci­sion, depth and dimen­sion­al­i­ty that comes with the hand­i­work that begs you to take a clos­er look.
    There’s no doubt about it—letterpress is beautiful.”

  • Parlez-vous free­lance? Unleashing your inner polyglot

    By branch­ing out lin­guis­ti­cal­ly you’re make an invest­ment with both time and mon­ey. Remember that even though English might be one of the most preva­lent lan­guages in the world, it isn’t the most pop­u­lar. Mandarin is way ahead of English in terms of total speak­ers. When it comes to native ones Spanish is as well. That’s a lot of peo­ple you can’t talk to.

  • Typographic Entanglements and Letterform Design
    “A rel­e­vant exam­ple of a design medi­um that has under­gone a host of typo­graph­ic exper­i­ments is the info­graph­ic. A care­ful­ly craft­ed let­ter­form design can do won­ders for info­graph­ics, par­tic­u­lar­ly the ones cre­at­ed to make dry sta­tis­tics on dull …