The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Ways To Sell Your Writing Without Selling Out
If you have a sneaky hunch that trying to sell your writing and writing talent is somehow tacky, you’re wrong. Find out why in this article.Tags: Writing AmWriting
- Five Principles of Writing for Users
Effective writing for UX projects often requires copy that guides users discretely and then disappears into the background—here are five guidelines to get you there.
Tags: UI UX copywriting
- Five Principles of Writing for Users
Effective writing for UX projects often requires copy that guides users discretely and then disappears into the background—here are five guidelines to get you there.
Tags: UI UX copywriting
- Followup on Starred Mail Reminder Digest
If you use Google Apps Mail, as I do, or GMail, starring messages is a great way to mark them as important or for later followup. Get busy, however, and you could forget to about those starred messages. I created the following IFTTT recipe to send me a daily email digest of starred messages to help me remember to followup.
Tags: Productivity email inboxzero
- A Designer’s Checklist For Designing Awesome Multi-Page Layouts: 15 Must Know Tips
Before you even think about beginning your design, these handy tips will make sure you’re equipped to create perfect pamphlets, beautiful booklets and mind-blowing magazines.
- What Killed The Infographic?
If you’ve seen fewer experimental data visualizations lately, it’s only because the medium has grown up and gotten a job.Tags: Infographic
- Do parents prefer print or digital books for their children and young adults?
- Google’s Guide To Designing With Empathy
Designers can reach over 1 billion people just by keeping accessibility in mind, says Google’s Astrid Weber and Jen Devins.
- Interesting read. Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? – NYTimes
“Why aren’t the poor storming the barricades?” asks The�Economist. “Why don’t voters demand more redistribution?”�wonders David Samuels, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. The headline on an April 7�National Catholic Reporter�article reads: “Why aren’t Americans doing more to protest inequality?”
There are legitimate grounds for grievance. For those in the bottom quintile,�household income in inflation-adjusted dollars�has dropped sharply, from $13,787 in 2000 to $11,651 in 2013. According to the�Census Bureau, 64 million Americans currently live in the bottom quintile.
- The Argument Against Work-Life Balance
He says that the problem is not that we don’t have a balance – the problem is that workis our life, and we are trying to incorrectly define the “life” portion as this separate thing for which we have to make time:
- 10 Cool Things HTML Tags Can Do
At the moment there are a total of 142 HTML elements standardized by W3C excluding the ones in the initial phases of standardization and those that wentTags: Web design