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- Community-Run Conferences: The Most Bang for Your Conference Buck
Community-run conferences are a much better opportunity for many people than many other types of events. Don’t get me wrong; there’s plenty of value to be had at mega-conferences and other types of events, as well. But considering the lower prices associated with community-run conferences, I always come away feeling like I’ve gotten so much for my money. Here’s why.
- 10 Awesome Freebies for Photoshop
Freebies for Photoshop always prove useful. They allow you to save tons of time by doing all the hard work for you.
For example, how long would it take you to create watercolor textures for a design. Probably hours, and that’s a conservative estimate. To save you this time, I have compiled a collection of great freebies for Photoshop.
- Alternatives to Paypal: Wepay
Wepay is designed to work to facilitate payments with platform-based enterprises such as crowdfunding, small business software, and online marketplaces. Wepay believes that these platforms cause important connections in society and it wants to…
- 10 Types of Designers You Want to Avoid
Those are just some of the most cringe worthy things you’ll hear from clients. But what about horrible designer stories from a client’s point-of-view?
We believe that there are designers with terrible characteristics and behaviors. They may have bad habits seen on their working styles, personalities, or thought processes. Each and every designer offers a different approach to the same project. In this article, we listed down some types of designers you want to avoid for your next design project as a client. If you’re a designer, you also may as well read through them and try not to be fit into any one or more types.
- Scribble: an innovative pen with (almost) no limit
Scribble pen is an innovative pen with almost no limit in the color. It is the first coloring device that lets you draw in 16 million different colors. With scribble, you can take the world of color around you and transfer it directly to either…
- Op-Ed: Why You Should Pursue Your Dreams Instead of College
Are you sold out to spending half a decade pursuing someone else’s dream? Are you willing to pay thousands of dollars learning things you may never apply? If your answer is “no” to both accounts, then here’s how pursuing your dreams, instead of going to college, can work:
- Op-Ed: Why You Should Pursue Your Dreams Instead of College
Are you sold out to spending half a decade pursuing someone else’s dream? Are you willing to pay thousands of dollars learning things you may never apply? If your answer is “no” to both accounts, then here’s how pursuing your dreams, instead of going to college, can work:
- How to Manage a Poor Career Move
Be it for economic reasons or a conflict of professional values, the decision to change roles out of necessity not desire is an important one, many times magnified when it is a successive move in short order. As some stability returns to the market many people are facing up to a stark reality; was the move I made in the down turn the right long term choice? Here are a few perspectives on how to ensure the mark of a bad move doesn’t indelibly stain your career:
- Kindle Unlimited and Ebook Sales
There’s actually no way of knowing right now. Authors had the same questions when KDP Select launched in December 2011, and I remember estimates ranging from $0.30 to $2. In the time since, borrow payouts have averaged $2.19. It seemed like Amazon was always keen to keep the rate around $2, adding and subtracting money from the fixed pool each month to keep things at that level.
- Retina Optimization: Not just for Apple users anymore!
Luckily, incorporating retina optimized graphics into your current web design isn’t super difficult. While you could simply double the size of the images on your website, this also means that you are more than doubling the file size of the imag…
- A Lesson to Designers of Menus and Other Price Lists – Using a $ Sign Effects Purchases
This study examines how customers reacted to menus’ price formatting in terms of actual sales, as measured by check totals for lunch at St. Andrew’s, the restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, New York.