Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 21 November 2014

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

  • Drop the E” to Take Quicker Handwritten Notes

    This is an easy form of short­hand that will still allow you to eas­i­ly read your notes when review­ing, Blain says. The let­ter “e” is the most com­mon in the English lan­guage, so it could save you a good amount of time to not use it. Don’t wor­ry, you won’t miss it much—bcaus th con­txt and sur­round­ing lttrs will hlp you undr­stand th txt.” 

  • One Fundamental Thing You Need to Know About Your Illustration Business
    No mat­ter what kind of cre­ative awe­some­ness you bring to the world, be it illus­tra­tion or dinky lit­tle vinyl toys, the fol­low­ing one thing is real­ly impor­tant if you want to active­ly engage poten­tial buy­ers and clients. I will deliv­er it in que…
  • 5 more ways how not to get cheat­ed by your design clients

    So instead of fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle, let’s focus on the kind of sit­u­a­tions that can be pre­vent­ed – sit­u­a­tions that hap­pen when good peo­ple go bad all of a sud­den. Let’s try to fig­ure out what habits we can build when work­ing with clients so we don’t get burned on the job.

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  • Give Each Workday a Theme for Productive Momentum
    Distractions at work can make you lose focus on the things you should be doing. To stay on task, use Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s method: Give each work day a “theme” so you always know what to focus on that day, and what to return to when you…
  • 10 Instagram Tools For Business

    In fact, some are so good at it that there is now a new form of adver­tis­ing on Instagram where you don’t adver­tise (if that makes sense). Even if you don’t have a phys­i­cal prod­uct, your busi­ness can ben­e­fit by show­ing behind-the-scene snap­shots or by show­cas­ing your work­ers’ office space. Whatever your rea­son for using the app, we hope that these 10 tools will help you make the most out Instagram for your business.