Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 1 July 2014

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

  • 5 Fast ways to boost cred­i­bil­i­ty with clients (and get more business)

    Sure, we know we’re pro­fes­sion­als, but since we don’t have to phys­i­cal­ly enter the pro­fes­sion­al realm on a day-to-day basis, some­times we slip — a lit­tle lax on our orga­ni­za­tion, a lot freer with our dress code, and far less rigid on our day-to-day routine.

    These lit­tle slips can mean a big difference:

  • A Password Isn’t Enough: Security Measures for the Post-Heartbleed Era
    The Heartbleed bug that shook the tech world has thrust small busi­ness­es into a new era of uncertainty.
  • Facebook apol­o­gizes after secret psy­cho­log­i­cal exper­i­ments caused out­rage among users

    During a brief peri­od two years ago, Facebook altered the con­tent that showed up on cer­tain users’ news feed to con­trol the por­tion of posts that con­tained words with pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive­ly charged emo­tions. By look­ing at a week’s worth of data, researchers at Facebook found that “emo­tions expressed by friends, via online social net­works, influ­ence our own moods, con­sti­tut­ing, to our knowl­edge, the first exper­i­men­tal evi­dence for massive-scale emo­tion­al con­ta­gion via social net­works, and pro­vid­ing sup­port for pre­vi­ous­ly con­test­ed claims that emo­tions spread via con­ta­gion through a network.”

  • How to Talk to a Lawyer (and When You Need One)
    Regardless of what you think about lawyers, when you need one, they’re your best friend. A good lawyer works with you, helps you under­stand the sit­u­a­tion, and guides you to the best pos­si­ble result. To do that, they need a client they can work …
  • 10 Free 3D Software You Can Download

    CAD soft­ware is a must-have tool to have in most enter­pris­es to reduce fatal flaws in design that may show up dur­ing pro­duc­tion. If you’re in the indus­try that relies a lot on CAD tools, you prob­a­bly already know that get­ting a good CAD soft­ware can be quite cost­ly. And if you are a stu­dent who is just start­ing to dip your toes into CAD soft­ware, this will def­i­nite­ly be a problem.

  • Designing Transitional Interfaces

    Designers love to sweat the details. Much time is spent pixel-fucking but­tons, form styles, set­ting type, & get­ting those icons as sharp as a tack. A+, great job, don’t stop you guys.

    …but there’s lit­tle con­sid­er­a­tion about how it all fits togeth­er out­side of a sta­t­ic comp. You tap a but­ton and the form just …appears? You swipe to delete an item and it just van­ish­es? That’s super weird and un-natural. Nearly noth­ing in the real world does any­thing as jar­ring­ly as just swap­ping states. It would feel like a glitch.

  • Adobe Readiness Toolkit, an Example of DPS + CRM Integration

    The Readiness Toolkit also includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) inte­gra­tion, recent­ly launched with v31 of DPS. Team mem­bers can record data about arti­cles shown from the app dur­ing a sales vis­it – includ­ing con­tent viewed, inter­ac­tiv­i­ty used and oth­er ana­lyt­ics infor­ma­tion – and upload that data, along with cus­tom notes about a sales prospect, direct­ly to a sales oppor­tu­ni­ty record. Marketing and sales man­agers can then cor­re­late con­tent con­sump­tion with rev­enue impact. Marketers can then retool and refine con­tent for max­i­mum per­for­mance, while sales man­age­ment can iden­ti­fy top per­form­ers and dri­ve sell­ing best prac­tices across their organization.

  • US PUBLISHING INDUSTRY ANNUAL SURVEY REPORTS $27 BILLION IN NET REVENUE, 2.6 BILLION UNITS FOR 2013

    As report­ed in BookStats, the Trade sec­tor — cov­er­ing gen­er­al con­sumer fic­tion and non-fiction — gen­er­at­ed $14.63 bil­lion in net rev­enue and 2.32 bil­lion in volume.

  • The Law of Drone Photography

    rones dis­cus­sions seem to abound nowa­days across the Internet, espe­cial­ly regard­ing their uses in pho­tog­ra­phy. Today, for around $1600 any­one can buy a drone like the Turbo Ace X830‑D, attach a Go Pro Hero 3 Black edi­tion cam­era, and have an aer­i­al stu­dio which can fly around for 25 min­utes, tak­ing either 12 megapix­el stills or 4K video. Compare that cost to rent­ing a heli­copter, the only way a pho­tog­ra­ph­er could get that aer­i­al shot of the new­ly ren­o­vat­ed water­front man­sion recent­ly put on the mar­ket for $8 mil­lion, or the video fly­over of a sail­boat teem­ing with beau­ti­ful mod­els wear­ing Ralph Lauren’s newest cloth­ing line.

  • The Law of Drone Photography

    rones dis­cus­sions seem to abound nowa­days across the Internet, espe­cial­ly regard­ing their uses in pho­tog­ra­phy. Today, for around $1600 any­one can buy a drone like the Turbo Ace X830‑D, attach a Go Pro Hero 3 Black edi­tion cam­era, and have an aer­i­al stu­dio which can fly around for 25 min­utes, tak­ing either 12 megapix­el stills or 4K video. Compare that cost to rent­ing a heli­copter, the only way a pho­tog­ra­ph­er could get that aer­i­al shot of the new­ly ren­o­vat­ed water­front man­sion recent­ly put on the mar­ket for $8 mil­lion, or the video fly­over of a sail­boat teem­ing with beau­ti­ful mod­els wear­ing Ralph Lauren’s newest cloth­ing line.

  • This Graphic Explains All the Health Hazards of Sitting for Too Long
    By now, you already know that pro­longed sit­ting is bad for your body. But what exact­ly goes on when you sit for hours every day? This graph­ic from the Washington Post explains.
  • Freelance-friendly late pay­ment plan ‘should go further’
    A recruit­ment body whose mem­ber firms place free­lance work­ers has wel­comed a plan to require large com­pa­nies to pub­lish infor­ma­tion about their pay­ment practices.

    The Association of Recruitment Consultancies said the pro­pos­al from Vince Cable,…

Curated by Pariah Burke