Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 14 March 2016

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

  • An Introduction To Material Design
    Your guide and intro­duc­tion to Material Design and all you need to know about it.Tags: Ui UX design graph­icde­sign webdesign
  • 50 Sites That Pay You To Write Or Blog
    If you love to write and have always had a dream to see your work pub­lished, but don’t want to start or man­age a blog to fea­ture all your writ­ings, why notTags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
  • Want to Be a Successful Writer? Ten Ways to GO PRO!
    But say­ing we want to go PRO is eas­i­er than know­ing what one actu­al­ly looks like. To be blunt, there are far more peo­ple “play­ing writer” than “going pro.” Even those of us who write for a liv­ing? It is an every­day bat­tle against entropy. It’s real­ly easy to wake up one day and realize…

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  • That All-Important First Line of Your Book

    Let’s talk about the open­ing line of your book. The first thing to know about “first lines” is that they are not going to make or break you. Sure, it’s a lot of fun com­ing up with great ones. But as long as the first line makes some­one want to read the sec­ond line, and that line makes you want to read the third… you’re on the right track.

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  • Digital Technology Is Changing Shopping Experience [Infographic]

    Retail shop­pers are rely­ing more on dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy than ever before. It affects every­thing from where they shop to what they buy to how they pay. Check out the info­graph­ic below to learn more about how dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy is trans­form­ing the in-store shop­ping landscape. 

  • Don’t Design What Users Want
    Too many prod­uct design­ers are in the pat­tern of sim­ply tak­ing user feed­back and imple­ment­ing it imme­di­ate­ly with lim­it­ed research, ques­tion­ing, or thought.Tags: Design Business