Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 21 July 2014

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

  • 5 Great Sites for Downloading Free Icons

    As a design­er, you can nev­er have enough icons. However, there’s an innu­mer­able amount of top-notch free icons on the Web to help you build your per­son­al col­lec­tion, so there’s def­i­nite­ly no short­age of supply.

    Here are five sites that will help you dis­cov­er free icons to download.

  • Google Drops Real Name Requirements from Google+

    If using your real name was the thing stop­ping you from sign­ing up for Google+, or Google pushed you to use your real name on Google+ or YouTube when you pre­fer a pseu­do­nym or nick­name, you can relax: Google has dropped all real name require­ments from the ser­vice and apol­o­gized for them in the first place. 

  • Google Drops Real Name Requirements from Google+

    If using your real name was the thing stop­ping you from sign­ing up for Google+, or Google pushed you to use your real name on Google+ or YouTube when you pre­fer a pseu­do­nym or nick­name, you can relax: Google has dropped all real name require­ments from the ser­vice and apol­o­gized for them in the first place. 

  • 3 big finance myths suc­cess­ful cre­atives don’t fall for
    So as you can imag­ine, start­ing my busi­ness 11 years ago with a hatred for finance made for inter­est­ing times.
  • Twixl Publisher Facts for DPS
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    Why pay more to cre­ate unnec­ces­sary multi-issue apps? Prepare an InDesign file with alter­nate lay­outs. Then in the Twixl Publisher app, one click is enough to build a single-issue iOS app, a single-issue Google app, and a single-issue Amazon…
  • 10 Reasons Why People Still Use Facebook [We Ask You Results]
    We all know Facebook is phe­nom­e­nal­ly suc­cess­ful, but why, in light of con­cerns over pri­va­cy, the sell­ing off of user data, con­stant changes to the default set­tings, and exper­i­ments on unsus­pect­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic, does any­one car­ry on usi…
  • The 10,000 Hours Myth: Practice Predicts Only 12% of Performance

    It’s become known as the 10,000 hour rule: that being an esti­mate of how long it takes to become an expert.

    But now, new research ques­tions the strong case that’s been made for practice.

  • Want To Change Your Life and Business Habits? Change Your Password
    It’s a dose of self-improvement in few­er char­ac­ters than a tweet. It’s an addi­tion to the pre-work rit­u­al, the kind that rock­star chef Anthony Bourdain celebrates.
  • How To Use HTML5 Element To Achieve Responsive Image

    The ide­al con­sen­sus among web devel­op­ers is that the actu­al dimen­sion should be respon­sive too. The brows­er should be able to load small­er or larg­er images in accor­dance to the view­port size. That way we can direct and deliv­er the best image pro­por­tion rather than the shrunk­en image (as shown).

    This is where the HTML5 pic­ture ele­ment comes in. The pic­ture allows us to pro­vide mul­ti­ple image sources and con­trol the deliv­ery through Media Queries. Though there isn’t any brows­er that imple­ment this ele­ment yet, we can use a poly­fill called Picturefill to do this. Let’s see how it’s done, shall we?

  • Hypocrite, Party of One Social Media Marketing Automation

    Audience engage­ment through social media is total­ly pos­si­ble. In fact, it’s lit­er­al­ly the rea­son behind each of these sites. As B2B mar­keters, it’s more dif­fi­cult to get our read­ers and fol­low­ers to engage with our con­tent by favorit­ing, com­ment­ing on, or shar­ing our posts, than our broth­ers and sis­ters in the B2C world.

    Try these tips to increase your audi­ence engage­ment and even get hyp­ocrites like me to inter­act with your inbound content:

  • How Much Should You Charge Graphic Design Clients?

    One of the biggest ques­tions graph­ic design­ers have is how much to charge their clients for their ser­vices. How do you charge for graph­ic design work? How do you deter­mine your pric­ing? There are sev­er­al things that you should con­sid­er when deter­min­ing what you’re going to charge your graph­ic design clients.