Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 18 August 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • How Open Source Companies Stay Profitable

    While it’s true that there are many open source solu­tions that both com­pa­nies and indi­vid­u­als can acquire and use at no cost, the notion that the phrase “open source” equates with the word “free” is sim­ply not true.

  • Price Your Product to Capture the Value You Create

    In their book titled Smart Pricing, Raju and Zhang say that most com­pa­nies do not think strate­gi­cal­ly about pric­ing. Instead, pric­ing is an after­thought, often set to achieve a cer­tain lev­el of prof­its bases on total costs incurred, or based on the market-leading prod­ucts’ prices.

  • The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect

    Invoke the word auto­cor­rect and most peo­ple will think imme­di­ate­ly of its hiccups—the sort of hys­ter­i­cal, impos­si­ble errors one finds col­lect­ed on sites like Damn You Autocorrect. But despite the inad­ver­tent hilar­i­ty, the real mar­vel of our mobile text-correction sys­tems is how astound­ing­ly good they are. It’s not too much of an exag­ger­a­tion to call auto­cor­rect the over­looked under­writer of our era of mobile prolixity.

  • 33 Productivity Tips In 140 Characters or Less

    I’ve found that the best way to improve my pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is to keep things sim­ple. With that, I’d like to share this awe­some list of 33 pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips from Ethos3. And to keep things sim­ple, they’re all with­in 14 characters.

  • 9 Lessons You Need to Learn to Not Get In Trouble Sending Email to Canadians Under New, Strict Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation

    Since this is prob­a­bly the strictest spam law ever, mar­keters are grow­ing con­cerned. Because mar­keters aren’t lawyers, many are also con­fused about what they actu­al­ly have to do.

    I’ve spent the past few weeks glean­ing insights from experts in the field, and here’s what I’ve learned so far.

  • 6 Basic Yet Significant WordPress Hacks for Your Blogs You Can’t Miss!
    You may often find some real­ly cap­ti­vat­ing WordPress blogs enriched with fea­tures, and just start think­ing of how to get those fea­tures in your WP pow­ered blog as well. This is some­thing that most of the blog­gers appar­ent­ly would have experienc…
  • Download Free Seamless Fabric Textures

    Fabrics have been around for so long that it was said to be used way back dur­ing the pre­his­toric times. Today, thanks to the never-ending inno­va­tion that we enjoy a very wide array of fab­rics with var­i­ous styles and tex­tiles. That’s also true in the world of web and graph­ic design. Fabrics are one of the wide­ly used resources by graph­ic design­ers that they apply to their designs as back­grounds and textures. 

  • How to Run Acrobat XI Actions in 1‑click Instead of 3
    This post is deals with the annoy­ance of hav­ing the click three times to run an action in Acrobat XI. I stum­bled across this solu­tion when I noticed that run­ning some of my actions requires three clicks, while oth­ers only require one click. I r…
  • 19 things not to say to a graph­ic designer–ready for poster print­ing or com­put­er wallpaper
    Have you had a client from hell? Then you might recog­nise some of these quotes.
  • 2 Years Later, Many Still Haven’t Gotten the Message – 15 Things People Absolutely Hate About Your Website
    So we com­piled a list of the 15 most annoy­ing things we’ve seen on web­sites to act as a sort of guide for what not to do when design­ing your web­site. Take a look at the worst offenders!