Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 21 January 2015

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

  • What’s Really Wrong With Facebook
    Facebook is chang­ing its pri­va­cy poli­cies at the begin­ning of the new year. As usu­al, every­one’s won­der­ing if they should be wor­ried about it.. When it comes to Facebook, the answer is usu­al­ly yes–but not for the rea­sons most peo­ple think.
  • 2015 Will be Defined as a ‘Human Era’ for Branding
    We’re enter­ing a new ‘Human Era’ for brand­ing – find out what that means and more…Tags: branding
  • Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries: How to Detect Image Manipulation

    Verifying and cer­ti­fy­ing pho­tographs as authen­tic is big busi­ness in the pho­tog­ra­phy indus­try, espe­cial­ly for pho­to­jour­nal­ists, media edi­tors, com­pe­ti­tion judges, police ser­vices, and courts. Online and cus­tom ser­vices ana­lyze an image’s meta­da­ta, using com­plex and evolved algo­rithms to detect changes. Pixels can also be mapped and fil­ters applied to images to reveal alter­ations. Another method known as “JPG ghost detec­tion” ana­lyzes a file to see if the image has been saved mul­ti­ple times at dif­fer­ent qual­i­ty set­tings — a sign that the image has like­ly been manipulated.

  • Making Audio Editing Visual and Intuitive for All with Adobe Sneak Peak Technology

    I want­ed to make it as easy as pos­si­ble. If you look at the apps that are avail­able today for pod­cast­ing they either behave like tape recorders — you can turn them on, you can turn them off, you can pause, you can fast for­ward or rewind. Or, you get a full audio edi­tor with a wave­form. There’s noth­ing that’s in between that’s capa­ble of pro­duc­ing a pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­ty broad­cast with­out hav­ing to take a course in dig­i­tal audio edit­ing. This [tech­nol­o­gy] fits right in that area.”

  • 4 Essential Layout Trends for 2015

    What you find here is an inter­est­ing blend of trends and unusu­al lay­outs that will hope­ful­ly inspire you to assess the fun­da­men­tal struc­tures your apply­ing to web design. Let’s dive in and take a look…

  • Dyecol, Beautiful Color Generator for Your Web Projects
    dyecol is a beau­ti­ful col­or gen­er­a­tor for your web projects. dyecol gen­er­ates col­ors at ran­dom and they’re beautiful.
  • Language study: Johnson: What is a for­eign lan­guage worth? | The Economist
    JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week’s pod­cast makes me won­der if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren’t…
  • The ghost of Steve Jobs is very angry at Apple over the rumored iPad sty­lus. Wait, what?
    Jobs’ thoughts brought to you by the peo­ple who under­stood him least.Tags: MacWorld
  • Notes on the first Italic typeface
    Whenever we think about the inven­tion of the ital­ic type­face we invari­ably think of the year 1501, when the ital­ic type, com­mis­sioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Griffo, was employed to set a new series of small pock­et books, first pub­lished in 1501.
  • Top 3 Design Questions about Navigation Menus
    The num­ber and order of nav­i­ga­tion cat­e­gories, and use of hov­er menus for touch­screens are fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions that arise when orga­niz­ing infor­ma­tion on a web­site or application.Tags: UI UX
  • Protect Your Work from Digital Thieves
    Media lawyer Asad Ali answers the five most fright­en­ing legal ques­tions to help you keep your work safe. 

    Protecting your intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty online can be a legal mine­field, so it’s impor­tant for any­one oper­at­ing or post­ing their work on the web to be aware of where they are most vul­ner­a­ble. As a part­ner solic­i­tor at Blacks Solicitors LLP in Leeds, spe­cial­is­ing in media, music and enter­tain­ment law, I reg­u­lar­ly work with clients in the web devel­op­ment, graph­ic and web design sectors.

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  • 50 awe­some lit­er­ary t‑shirts for book lovers
    A selec­tion of the coolest lit­er­ary t‑shirts that will help express how much you love books. Tees from Etsy, Zazzle, Threadless, Society6, CafePress, and Amazon.
  • Discover the emo­tion­al life of fonts [TED Video]
    Every type­face has a per­son­al­i­ty that influ­ences our inter­pre­ta­tion of the words we read by evok­ing our emo­tions and set­ting the scene.Tags: typography
  • Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right
    Lychee is the per­fect place to store all your pho­tos. No stor­age lim­it, no com­pres­sion, no loss in data. We even sup­port and dis­play your EXIF and IPTC Metadata. And if you want, you can make your pho­tos pub­lic for your audi­ence. With just one …
  • Social Media Image Size Cheat Sheet for 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
    Thankfully, help as it hand, via this quick and sim­ple social media image size cheat sheet, which has been updat­ed for 2015 and comes cour­tesy of Constant Contact.
  • Stop Believing TV’s Lies: The Real Truth About “Enhancing” Images

    You’ve seen it over and over. The FBI uses their advanced tech­nol­o­gy to “enhance” a blur­ry image, and find a villain’s face in the worst pos­si­ble footage. Well, How-To Geek is call­ing their bluff. Read on to see why.

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  • How to Leverage Pro Bono Work to Gain More Work

    Well, you can always go pro bono to build up your pro­fes­sion­al port­fo­lio first. Want to know how? I’ve put togeth­er a quick guide on how to lever­age pro bono work to gain more work.

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