Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 24 June 2014

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  • 7 Ways to Communicate That Clients Should Not Haggle
    It can be quite dif­fi­cult to get out win­ning in a sit­u­a­tion where a client is try­ing to reduce your rate. You might think that it is obvi­ous that you should earn more, with­out know­ing exact­ly how to make a good argument.
  • 10 Best CSS Gradient Generators

    These gra­di­ent gen­er­a­tors will be handy when you’re try­ing to pro­duce more com­plex gra­di­ents or when you’re just start­ing to learn CSS3.

  • Six Iconic Logo Designers You Should Know

    Paul Rand said, “Visual com­mu­ni­ca­tions of any kind… should be seen as the embod­i­ment of form and func­tion: the inte­gra­tion of the beau­ti­ful and the use­ful.” It’s not only about how it looks, or how it works, but about how it looks and works togeth­er. Whether you’re a stu­dent or a prac­tic­ing design­er, it’s help­ful to occa­sion­al­ly look back at the work of icon­ic design­ers like Rand. I wrote Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design to high­light pio­neers of graph­ic design, from El Lissitzky to Paula Scher. Each of these fig­ures offers inspi­ra­tion and lessons for all design­ers. Here are a few that con­tributed to the rise of cor­po­rate iden­ti­ty design:

  • Here’s The Schedule Very Successful People Follow Every Day

    Let’s assem­ble the expert ideas and research we’ve cov­ered into a more cohe­sive sched­ule you can apply to your day.

    How do you do that? You may want to get your cal­en­dar out. We’ve got some changes to make.

  • 5 Ways Young Leaders Can Get Others To Take Them Seriously
    There’s tons of advice on how to man­age that cov­et­ed Millennial demo­graph­ic. But what about the twen­tysome­things who are already managers?
  • Iteration and the Feature/Refinement Balance
    If you approach work­ing on an appli­ca­tion like play­ing a tow­er defense game, find­ing prob­lems as users close accounts is def­i­nite­ly a last-ditch effort. We try to pay atten­tion to every feed­back chan­nel our users might express opin­ions or frust…
  • 5 Enterprising Tools for Boosting Freelance Business Communication
    So free­lancers need to use the right solu­tions for com­mu­ni­cat­ing with their clients, team mem­bers and oth­er indi­vid­u­als involved in projects. We are high­light­ing here some pret­ty use­ful online col­lab­o­ra­tion tools for enabling smoother and faste…
  • What the Internet is Doing to Young Minds… It’s Not What You Think
    87% of US teach­ers think the inter­net is cre­at­ing a dis­tract­ed gen­er­a­tion. Is it real­ly true?
  • Your iPad becomes a full fea­tured video pro­duc­tion device with new app, Padcaster
    Everyone from uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents to inde­pen­dent film­mak­ers to major news net­works are using the Padcaster as a tool to cap­ture, edit and dis­trib­ute their unique sto­ries. With the iPad Air, now the world’s most advanced and capa­ble tablet in te…
  • Branding Strategies for Multi-Product Categories
    The process of devel­op­ing brand archi­tec­ture is a strate­gic one, based on iden­ti­fy­ing threats and cre­at­ing strong cor­po­rate bonds amongst brands that work to mit­i­gate the risk of brand fail­ure. These risks can come from not only con­sumer prefer…