Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 18 June 2015

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

• Etsy Eases Into Crowdfunding Today
  Etsy enthu­si­asts may see a pilot pro­gram launch that will allow sell­ers to raise mon­ey on the company’s web­site to fund the man­u­fac­tur­ing of new products.

  Tags: Crowdfunding

• Countering the Inside View and Making Better Decisions
  “You can reduce the num­ber of mis­takes you make by think­ing about prob­lems more clearly.“Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
• The Surprising Persuasiveness of a Sticky Note – HBR
  Research shows a per­son­al touch matters.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
• Breaking: Apple Facing ‘Massive Withdrawal’ from Independent Artists, Labels… Some blame Mike Monteiro
  Apple is now fac­ing the prospect of  a ‘mas­sive with­draw­al’ from a ‘very large group of indie’ artists and labels from Apple Music, accord­ing to mul­ti­ple sources speak­ing with Digital Music News this week­end.  That includes some of the largest inde­pen­dent artists on the plan­et, includ­ing Adele, The National, Alabama Shakes, and quite pos­si­bly, Radiohead, already a vocal oppo­nent of stream­ing roy­al­ty pay­ments (or lack thereof).
• Top Five New fea­tures of Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release) – YouTube
  Adobe Certified Instructor and Learn by Video pre­sen­ter Kelly McCathran shares her top 5 fea­tures of the just announced Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release). Sh…Tags: Photoshop
• The Remote Worker’s Guide to Office Etiquette
  Working from home, whether it’s once in a while or every day, doesn’t make you immune to the social weird­ness that comes with oth­er peo­ple. In fact, being phys­i­cal­ly removed from your cowork­ers can make com­mu­ni­cat­ing that much stranger. Here’s what you need to know to avoid awk­ward silences in chat rooms, flat jokes on con­fer­ence calls, or just feel­ing iso­lat­ed from the rest of your colleagues.
• The 13 Best Yahoo Pipes Alternatives You Should Look at Today
  Yahoo has final­ly giv­en up on Yahoo Pipes. So, for all of us who relied on Yahoo Pipes to clean up dodgy RSS feeds, we need an alter­na­tive. And fast.Tags: Pipes RSS
• Mastering the Home-Office Balancing Act
  From CPA to small-business own­er, Complete Business Solutions founder Carrie Kahn has grown her com­pa­ny to $500,000 in rev­enue by learn­ing how to work – suc­cess­ful­ly – from home.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• Never Be Ashamed Of Your Side Hustle | The Financial Diet
  The truth, though, is that I wasn’t real­ly doing this obfus­cat­ing out of an oppor­tunis­tic desire to squeeze the most mon­ey out of my writ­ing jobs. I was most­ly doing it because I was embar­rassed, ashamed to have to sup­ple­ment what I con­sid­ered to be my “real” job with side work that nev­er felt like some­thing I “should” have been doing.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

• Never Be Ashamed Of Your Side Hustle | The Financial Diet
  The truth, though, is that I wasn’t real­ly doing this obfus­cat­ing out of an oppor­tunis­tic desire to squeeze the most mon­ey out of my writ­ing jobs. I was most­ly doing it because I was embar­rassed, ashamed to have to sup­ple­ment what I con­sid­ered to be my “real” job with side work that nev­er felt like some­thing I “should” have been doing.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

• Facial-recognition talks col­lapse over pri­va­cy issues – BBC News
  Privacy cam­paign­ers walk out of talks aimed at cre­at­ing a code of con­duct for com­pa­nies keen to use facial-recognition technology.Tags: Privacy
• Why does a col­lege degree cost so much?
  With stu­dent debt out­stand­ing top­ping 1.2 tril­lion, par­ents, stu­dents and researchers are ask­ing: Why does col­lege cost so much? Here are some reasons.

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