Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 15 October 2014

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

  • 3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)

    In this arti­cle, I thought we’d focus on three oth­er very com­mon 2014 UX pat­terns. Each one is so preva­lent and hum­drum that we may not even think twice when we employ them.

  • 4 ways mag­a­zines are mak­ing video work

    Magazine pub­lish­ers have plowed mon­ey and resources into video. The rea­son is obvi­ous: Video adver­tis­ing is a boom­ing mar­ket, with plump ad prices that dwarf the CPMs dis­play ads fetch.

    But the dev­il is in the details or, more pre­cise­ly, in the exe­cu­tion. There are inter­nal chal­lenges to orga­niz­ing to cre­ate video — just ask Condé Nast – in addi­tion to prob­lems around gen­er­at­ing a view­er­ship of suf­fi­cient scale and putting togeth­er attrac­tive ad packages.

  • Twitter Engagement Rates: Which Post Times Are Best?

    What’s the best time of day, day of the week, and month of the year to tweet? ExactTarget has some answers in a new report [down­load page] based off more than 3.6 mil­lion tweets sent through its plat­form by com­pa­nies in 15 indus­tries. The analy­sis looks at post engage­ment rates (organ­ic and paid) in the aggre­gate and across var­i­ous indus­tries, arriv­ing at some inter­est­ing conclusions.

  • Adobe brings “stream­ing” Photoshop to Chrome OS
    It’s just a beta for now; open only to US-based edu­ca­tion customers.

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