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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 …