Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 19 August 2014

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

  • Designing for Wearable Technology

    Wearable tech­nol­o­gy is more than just crap on your wrist, and more than the typ­i­cal rec­tan­gu­lar screen. We are obsessed with the visu­al, but wear­able tech­nol­o­gy is so much more than what you see. How do we design these objects, chal­leng­ing the norms while still keep­ing the end user in mind? We’re start­ing to mash up user expe­ri­ence and indus­tri­al design to cre­ate new skill sets for this boom­ing tech movement.

  • Stop Complaining and Roll Up Your Sleeves (and Other Little-Known Leadership Lessons)

    During my four decades in lead­er­ship roles at Deloitte, I’ve learned a great num­ber of lessons about what it takes to lead a team, or an office, or a com­pa­ny. Here are three of the most impor­tant (and yet, least talked about in man­age­ment books):

  • 10 Must-have iPhone Apps for Designers

    This time I’m com­ing back to bring 10 more to help fel­low and inspir­ing design­ers make the most out of both their time and work. The apps here cov­er a range of things that will help you stay pro­duc­tive which will include actu­al appli­ca­tions geared to draw­ing, note tak­ing, typog­ra­phy and even image correction.

  • Guidelines for using the American flag in pho­tog­ra­phy (and for han­dling the flag respect­ful­ly in general).
    The American flag is a beau­ti­ful sym­bol of the United States and is so pow­er­ful in pho­tographs. It is impor­tant to remem­ber the stan­dards of eti­quette that accom­pa­ny the hon­or of hav­ing such an amaz­ing symbol.
  • What the Right YouTube Video Can Do For your Business

    “YouTube is an old warhorse, tried-and-true. MySpace and Napster and Friendster fad­ed away, but one of the grand­dad­dies of New Media is still as strong as ever. Other post-your-video sites have lived peace­ful­ly aside YouTube, get­ting plen­ty of traf­fic but not sup­plant­i­ng it. YouTube remains a potent tool for small busi­ness own­ers and entre­pre­neurs. If you’re still a hold­out, con­sid­er how the right YouTube video can help you mar­ket your business.”

  • What it Means to be a Modern Designer
    Micheal Bierut of Pentagram Design shares his views on design and design­ing today.
  • 30 Brilliant Photos of People Posing As If They Have Just Fallen Down

    There are many ways to attack pho­tog­ra­phy and some are much more expen­sive than oth­ers, Here we are talk­ing about cre­ative pho­tog­ra­phy of peo­ple who look like they’ve just fall­en down ter­ri­bly, sur­round­ed by all their mate­r­i­al belongings.

  • 8 Types Of Email Titles That Often Get Ignored

    “See, the sub­ject line tells you, at a glance, whether the sender’s mes­sage – or, more accu­rate­ly, the sender’s pur­pose – is worth your atten­tion. As a sender, you can either write the sub­ject line right, or you can do one of the fol­low­ing things, which will def­i­nite­ly get your email pushed aside.”

  • A cre­ative direc­tor on design education’s unre­al­is­tic goals and set­ting grad­u­ates up for failure

    Here’s the thing: pro­fes­sors pass along their val­ues to stu­dents. What they care about, what they’re pas­sion­ate about, is often what stu­dents get pas­sion­ate about. Professors who look down on “pix­el push­ing” (as though that was easy — it’s not and if you don’t believe me, try it some­time) and the day-to-day, tac­ti­cal work of prod­uct design will pass that atti­tude along to their stu­dents, who’ll see the most strategic/thinking aspects of design as some­how more valu­able than the doing/making aspects of design. 

  • Business tips from 4 cre­ative pros who are crush­ing it
    From hir­ing employ­ees to over­com­ing self-doubt, here are bits of the won­der­ful infor­ma­tion from four amaz­ing vet­er­an freelancers.

Curated by Pariah Burke