Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 1 February 2017

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

• 5 Strategies for Completing a Novel First Draft
  S.K. Lamont com­plet­ed four first draft nov­els in 2015. In this post, she shares strate­gies for com­plet­ing a nov­el first draft with oth­er writ­ers who want to get it done.Tags: Writing AmWriting
• Best Times To Post On Social Media According To 16 Studies
• 25 Best Photo Effect Tutorials with Photoshop |
• Forget The “Praise Sandwich”: Five Better Ways To Give Good Feedback
• The Best Free WordPress Plugins for Contact Forms
  Discover three easy ways to cre­ate WordPress con­tact forms.
• Great Jobs for Older Tech Pros
• Self-help author Tim Ferriss says social media is mak­ing us miserable
• Adobe Just Stopped Selling Creative Suite 6 Entirely – Here’s Why
  But with the CS6 soft­ware EOL (end-of-life) and end of sup­port, there were no fur­ther updates, no bug fix­es, and no guar­an­tees it will run on the lat­est or future oper­at­ing sys­tems. So final­ly, ear­li­er this month, Adobe ceased any remain­ing sales of CS…
• The 3 tenets of applied ethnography
• The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
• Incredible new graph­ic design app now includes pho­to­re­al­is­tic rendering
• Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
• The cre­ative part of UI design: Adding char­ac­ters and style

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