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- 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.