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- How to Brand Mind Maps to Make Them Stand Out | Designers: Another Service You Can offer!
How to use graphic design to convey a professional image and clearly communicate your brand – featuring advice from brilliant mind mapper Roger C. Parker.
- 5 Quick Photoshop Fixes for Bad Portrait Photos
That’s why it is important to know a few quick-fire retouching tricks that can make a big impact without a lot of effort.
- 4 ‘About Us’ Page Myths
With that said, there are certainly some general policies to follow—and some blunders to avoid. Unfortunately, not all ‘About Us’ pages are written with these best practices in mind. In fact, there are some pieces of conventional ‘About Us’ wisdom that may actually hurt your brand identity more than they help it—and we’ve rounded up four of them, below.
- 4 ‘About Us’ Page Myths
With that said, there are certainly some general policies to follow—and some blunders to avoid. Unfortunately, not all ‘About Us’ pages are written with these best practices in mind. In fact, there are some pieces of conventional ‘About Us’ wisdom that may actually hurt your brand identity more than they help it—and we’ve rounded up four of them, below.
- Search Twitter More Efficiently with These Search Operators
There is a lot of information on Twitter. Use these search operators to help weed out the useful posts from the posts about what someone is having for dinner.
- Breaking Down E‑book Theft
You might have inadvertently supported e‑book piracy. With more and more books turning up in electronic format, it welcomed piracy with open arms. How much have authors and publishers lost from piracy, and what can we do about it?
- Using Evernote for Fashion Design
Annching also uses Evernote to take screenshots of the various stages of her designs in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. This creates a visual timeline that also acts as an archive of works-in-progress for future reference. “Now I don’t have a gazillion files on my computer in folders I often never look at again. [Evernote] has made me feel a lot more confident and relaxed about my research process, which in turn, boosts my creative process. In the end, it’s all about fusing inspiration and knowledge with practical use.”
- Amazon Appeals Directly to Hachette’s Authors
In the letter accompanying the proposal Amazon said its goal was to “take authors out of the middle” of the dispute. If Hachette would sign off on the idea of giving authors 100% of e‑book revenue, Amazon would then return to “normal levels of on-hand print inventory, return to normal pricing in all formats, and for books that haven’t gone on sale yet, reinstate preorders.”
- Americans Can’t Even Focus On Television Anymore
Now it appears that watching television, itself a diversion, requires more focus than we can muster.
Forbes reports that a new study from the consulting group TNS found that 56% of Americans engage in another digital activity (playing with …
- Reflector Arrives for Android
Reflector for Android is an AirPlay receiver that runs on most Android devices. It allows your Android tablet, phone or entertainment system to receive AirPlay and AirPlay mirroring signals.
Reflector for Android is available in the Google Play Store for an introductory price of $6.99. Reflector is coming to Kindle Fire tablets and Fire TV soon!
- 5 Superstitions in Which Design Clients Believe
This, of course, also extends to design. However, as designers, we have the ability to help people make sense of their lives and make wise decisions as consumers.