Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 16 July 2014

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  • Airplane Seats Are About to Get Smaller and Even More Uncomfortable
    In the next 20 years, Boeing expects air trav­el to dou­ble. Increasing the num­ber of seats along with the num­ber of planes makes sense, even if some (a lot of?) com­fort is lost.

    Even schol­ars are try­ing to fig­ure out how to put more peo­ple on p…

  • The Most Powerful Man In Advertising Says Creativity Is Dying In Europe And The United States

    This state­ment comes at a time when oth­ers in the indus­try are also ques­tion­ing the future of cre­ativ­i­ty in adver­tis­ing. BBH co-founder Sir John Hegarty spoke at Thinkbox’s Big Think event in London and expressed his con­cern for cre­ativ­i­ty say­ing, “In our indus­try we’ve become obsessed with tech­nol­o­gy. In doing so, it has lost faith a lit­tle bit in the val­ue of that big idea and putting it on TV, the val­ue of broad­cast,” The Drum reports. 

  • 11 Tiny Design Features That Show Apple’s Insane Attention To Detail
    Apple prod­ucts have always been known for their qual­i­ty design and atten­tion to detail.

    Many of these details go unno­ticed by the aver­age Apple user, or are only use­ful to a rel­a­tive hand­ful of peo­ple using the product.

    Some fea­tures are hand…

  • This Site Will Give You Endless Design Inspiration

    Getting inspired by see­ing the work of oth­ers is part of every designer’s work­flow. Inspiration is so key to design­ers that there’s a huge indus­try of sites that aim to sat­is­fy our cre­ative desires to look at great work.

    Niice is one such site. It’s a taste­ful­ly curat­ed show­case of visu­al inspi­ra­tion sourced from all over the Web.

  • Practical Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
    Many WordPress own­ers fail to under­stand that site speed is among the top fac­tors which play an impor­tant role when it comes to deter­min­ing con­ver­sion rate. Recent research has indi­cat­ed that if your site takes more than four sec­onds to load, a…
  • 5 Ways To Get Productive With Microsoft OneNote

    Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “A place for every­thing and every­thing in its place.” With that thought in mind, may I intro­duce you to – Microsoft OneNote.