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- How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business
Why Designers Need to ‘Become the Patient’ to Build Better Products
Gebbia’s experience with upgrading photographs proved that code alone can’t solve every problem that customers have. While computers are powerful, there’s only so much that software alone can achieve. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs tend to become comfortable in their roles as keyboard jockeys. However, going out to meet customers in the real world is almost always the best way to wrangle their problems and come up with clever solutions.
- Free Extension Integrates Dribbble Directly Into Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (CS5, CS6, CC)
Bounce is a free extension that integrates and connects the Dribbble design community into the Adobe design applications you love to build with everyday.
Keeping up with the game has never been easier as it’s now possible to check out the late…
- More on the Amazon Letter and its impact – Untangling the Amazon/Hachette Dispute
More broadly, Amazon’s erratic response ignores most of the realities of publishing. The publishers in question, and most publishers, continue to print books as well as issue them in ebook editions. TidBITS Publishing, with its Take Control series, is one of a relatively small number of publishers (across fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, and more) that delivers books solely in electronic form.
- The Notification is the Interface #UI #UX
I’ve always been a big fan of minimal interfaces, and notifications as the interface are probably the ultimate frontier in terms of simplicity and surface size. They are consistent and constraining in design, but still very powerful.
- The Top 5 Metrics Every Publisher Should Care About [Infographic]
While the mantra of the publishing industry was once “content, content, content,” today’s refrain might as well be “data, data, data.” Sophisticated analytics programs have provided unprecedented amounts of information about readers and their habits across different websites, providing publishers new insights and opportunities to innovate.
- Photoshop-Like Blend Modes Come to the Web with CSS Blend Modes
Bennett Feely has been doing a good job of showing people the glory of CSS blend modes. There are lots of designerly effects that we’re used to seeing in static designs (thanks to Photoshop) that we don’t see on the web much, with dynamic conte…
- How To Cope With Lack Of Support For Your Freelancing Career
However, this doesn’t mean that unfortunate stereotypes about freelancers have abated. According to a survey conducted by Crunch Accounting , 75 percent of freelancers claim that they aren’t taken as seriously as larger businesses, because of misconceptions like “freelancers spend all of their time in their pajamas”, “freelancing is for people who can’t find full-time work”, “freelancing is a stop-gap to a full-time career”, and “freelancers aren’t as reliable as agencies/temps”.
- Roboto Rebooted: Why Google Updates Its Font Like The Rest Of Its Products
With its ambitious plan to create a single design language for all its products, Google had to update its main font to work on any screen.
- These Free Productivity Planners Help You Focus and Stay Organized
Productive Flourishing has made free planners for creative people and others who don’t fit the normal 8–5 model of work.
The site notes that not every planner is perfect for every type of job or person, so they have created different ones for …
- What web designers can learn from Disney. Interview with Rogie King
We speak to Twitter-ruling designer Rogie King about what he’s learned from the House of Mouse and more.