Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 22 January 2015

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

  • On the top­ic of free­lance pric­ing: Things I hate: Cost-Plus Pricing

    Let’s be hon­est, every­one likes this mod­el. It’s easy to cal­cu­late (though amaz­ing­ly, most peo­ple use a func­tion of val­ue in cal­cu­lat­ing even this).

    They say some­thing like, “Well, it’s going to take 10 hours, at $150/hour, so that’s going to cost us $1500. And assum­ing we can get away with a 20% mar­gin, that means we’ll charge $1800.”

  • How to Create Stained Glass Art in Photoshop
    Using Adobe Photoshop as her tool, Sara Forlenza has cre­at­ed stained glass art wor­thy of any church.Tags: Photoshop
  • 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest
    Not ready to launch your site? Look pro­fes­sion­al with any of these 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest!
  • 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest
    Not ready to launch your site? Look pro­fes­sion­al with any of these 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest!
  • 11 Top Freelancers Answer: Starting Out, I Wish I Would Have Known…
    I’ve round­ed up a few of the top free­lancers out there and had them answer the ques­tion “What do you wish you would have known start­ing out as a free­lancer?”. Needless to say, this arti­cle is full of over 2 thou­sand words of wisdom.
  • Why You’ll Lose Friends When You Become an Art Director

    Everyone who wins the lot­tery all give oth­ers the same advice; the first thing you should do is change your phone num­ber because every rel­a­tive and long lost friend will sud­den­ly pop out of nowhere to ask you for mon­ey. The same can be said of attain­ing a posi­tion of power.

    Once you become an art direc­tor or cre­ative direc­tor, you will hear from every friend and acquain­tance, want­i­ng some­thing from you—usually against your bet­ter judge­ment. If you decide to hire peo­ple based on friend­ship, rather than tal­ent, you have soiled your­self as a pro­fes­sion­al, and some­times worse!

  • Marc Andreessen’s clas­sic post: The ONLY thing that mat­ters for new startups

    And so you start to won­der — what cor­re­lates the most to suc­cess — team, prod­uct, or mar­ket? Or, more blunt­ly, what caus­es suc­cess? And, for those of us who are stu­dents of start­up fail­ure — what’s most dan­ger­ous: a bad team, a weak prod­uct, or a poor market?

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  • How to Have Android Notify You Only of Certain Emails

    You don’t have to enable all noti­fi­ca­tions or com­pul­sive­ly check your phone when you’re wait­ing for an impor­tant email — just set up the appro­pri­ate fil­ters, labels, and noti­fi­ca­tion set­tings to tell Gmail what you care about.

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