Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 25 June 2014

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

  • Top 5 Benefits of Using A CMS to Power Your Website
    Learn the top 5 ben­e­fits to using a CMS for your web­site. A CMS is a pow­er­ful tool for run­ning any web­site because it keeps con­tent orga­nized & has options.
  • How to Make Abstract Typography Art with Illustrator

    For this begin­ner lev­el tuto­r­i­al, I will show you how to cre­ate a type design I like to call “Sauce.” The design will be done in Illustrator and will be a vec­tor so that we can scale the design up or down depend­ing on where you want to use it, com­ing out with a vec­tor image that will allow you to apply the design any­where you’d like.

  • Sherlock Holmes lives in pub­lic domain, US court rules #IP #Copyright
    Judgement clos­es copy­right loop­hole in US lim­it­ing right to bring detec­tive back to life
  • The UX Newsletter Delivers Design Tips Straight to Your Inbox

    The UX Newsletter shares sto­ries and tips about research, design and devel­op­ment writ­ten by MailChimp’s User Experience team. For exam­ple, Issue 9, titled “Patterns”, is about the impor­tance and ben­e­fits of using pat­tern libraries.

  • Successful Startups Founded by Designers

    Success in design and entre­pre­neur­ship require a lot of the same qual­i­ties such as cre­ativ­i­ty, inno­v­a­tive­ness, and problem-solving abilities.

    It’s these shared traits that make design­ers excel­lent entrepreneurs.

    Here are some well-known Internet star­tups found­ed or co-founded by designers. 

  • How to Take Notes You Will Remember
    Laptop ver­sus hand-written notes: what the dif­fer­ence reveals about memory.
  • Your Name Could Influence How Believable People Think You Are
    In a series of exper­i­ments, researchers had par­tic­i­pants rate names for things like risk­i­ness or eval­u­ate infor­ma­tion (triv­ia facts or false­hoods, like “Giraffes are the only mam­mals that can’t jump”) from pairs of names, one eas­i­ly pronounced …
  • Engaging At Events: What It Takes

    Events are one of the best times to engage with your cus­tomer com­mu­ni­ty. You’ve got any­where from a few hun­dred to many thou­sands of your most pas­sion­ate cus­tomers in one place at one time – what

  • Thoughts on Design Pricing from Leading Designers

    In the long run, to be the cheap­est is a refuge for peo­ple who don’t have the flair to design some­thing worth pay­ing for, who don’t have the guts to point to their prod­uct or their ser­vice and say, ‘this isn’t the cheap­est, but it’s worth it.’”
    — Seth Godin

  • The Guiding Principle That Help Dropbox (or You) Move Teams and Projects Forward
    Getting to know your team’s per­son­al­i­ties and pas­sions can do more than fos­ter morale–it can direct­ly lead to bet­ter products.