Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 27 April 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

• Give up the ghost (writ­ing)
• Infographic: How To Motivate Employees With Different Personality Types
• Structuring design teams to max­i­mize cross-team collaboration
• How Creatives Can Beat the Torturously-Slow Payment Process
• 3 Signs you should quit work­ing for some­one else right now
• 3 Questions you should ask your­self before cre­at­ing tons of con­tent for your business
• Good Leadership Qualities: How to Improve Your Leadership IQ
• Designing in a War Room
• 6 things I learned in my first year after quit­ting my job & free­lanc­ing full-time
• 16 Free ways to find leads for your free­lance business
• 5 Things No One Tells You About Going Full-Time Again
• Top 10 Ways to Brainstorm New Ideas

  Ideas make the world go round, but com­ing up with great ones isn’t always easy. Here are ten ways you can prompt your brain to get those ideas flowing.

• An Entrepreneur’s List of 17 Techniques for Handling ‘Haters’
• Flora Borsi: Discovering one’s self in the art of pho­tog­ra­phy and Photoshop
• Conversation With a Tech Support Scammer
• Here’s A Toolkit for Creating a Loyal Instagram Following
  These brands were built on Instagram. They share their strate­gies for cre­at­ing a loy­al fol­low­ing and dri­ving sales on the platform.Tags: Instagram startup
• 60 Free Serif Fonts to Give Your Designs a Traditional Touch
• Why Rage Might Be Good for Your Writing Career
  After near­ly two decades of rejec­tion by big-time pub­lish­ers, author Theresa Ragan chan­neled her frus­tra­tions, leapt into the world of self-publishing, and hit it big.Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub
• What Your Teen Doesn’t Want You To Know They Use Their Phone For
• What your port­fo­lio says about you as a free­lance designer
• The Pros, Cons, and Future of Flat Design
• Google Wins Copyright Battle Over Books
  shareePublishing
• Client onboard­ing: How I turn 90% of prospects into pay­ing customers
• How to Truly Hide iOS’ Built-In Apps Using a Configuration Profile
• 4 best font editors
• What Middle-Aged Career Reinvention Looks Like
  When your career starts to get frus­trat­ing, some­times it’s best to think small.Tags: secondcareer
• 10 Sneaky Ways Retailers Fool You Into Spending More
• WordPress Plugins vs Widgets – What’s The Difference?
• How to Add Social Media Links to Your Gmail Signature
• Graphic Design From Around the World: Scandinavian Design
• Blank Label: How Opening a Brick-And-Mortar Store Changed an Online Business
  With his cus­tom tai­lor­ing com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in down­town Boston, Blank Label CEO Fan Bi has found a way to bring tailor-made gar­ments to the masses.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Startup
• Peek Behind the Sneaks: Like Shazam for Type
• Be Careful When Typing URLs Unless You Want Malware
• 10 Project & Task Management Tools To Try
• Tips for devel­op­ing excit­ing book cov­er char­ac­ter art
• 6 Tested Tips to Make Your Content Shareable
• Is it fair to charge your big­ger clients more?
• All the Cool Beta Software You Can Use for Free
• Is It Time to Ditch Pages and Word for Ulysses?
• LinkedIn for Veterans
  LinkedIn wants to help vet­er­ans take the next step in their careers and tran­si­tion from the mil­i­tary back to the civil­ian work­place. It’s our mis­sion to help you con­nect to oppor­tu­ni­ty, round out your skill set, and find your next job. Join Greg Call, …
• 10 WordPress Plugins to Track and Boost Your Marketing Tactics
• Improving your UX and UI with phan­tom guides
• Reflow-Plus Digital Magazine: Easy on the Eyes
  Mequoda is big into iden­ti­fy­ing and quan­ti­fy­ing things so we can study them, under­stand them and use them to enhance our clients’ pub­lish­ing busi­ness­es. And with dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing start­ing to set­tle in a lit­tle bit, we’ve iden­ti­fied four mod­els of a dig­i­tal magazine.

  Tags: DPS digimag eprd­ctn

• How the Most Productive People Stay on Track During Business Trips
• 7 Ways To Land Freelance Front-End Development Work
• Can a Typeface Feel Pretty? Ask Tanja
• How Should You Keep Your Eyes Safe in the Digital Age?
• A is for Animal: Showcasing a Typeface in an Illustrated Alphabet Book
• Can’t Keep Up? 7 Brilliant Ways To Finish Your Story | Kristen Lamb’s Blog
• The key to the best brand­ed con­tent? Tell less brand-centric stories.

  Melanie Deziel is a branded content strategist and author of Women Inmates for Netflix’s TV show Orange is The New Black. She is also a founder of The Overlap League, a bi-weekly newsletter on native advertising.

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing copy­writ­ing

• The Joy of Die-Cuts
• How to Automate Tasks in Audacity & Save Lots of Time
• The Surprising Reasons You Pay More for Car Insurance
• We’ve Reached Peak Smartphone–And That’s Good

  Now the real tri­al isn’t find­ing a good phone—it’s find­ing a bad one. And that isn’t a bad thing (as bor­ing as it is for every­one cov­er­ing it).

• We’ve Reached Peak Smartphone–And That’s Good

  Now the real tri­al isn’t find­ing a good phone—it’s find­ing a bad one. And that isn’t a bad thing (as bor­ing as it is for every­one cov­er­ing it).

• Rebranding an Event in Just 5 Days
• Visual Design and Composition Lessons from 30 Beautiful Maps
• How to Pitch to Investors
  Find out what angel investors and ven­ture cap­i­tal firms are look­ing for in this course by investor and entre­pre­neur Jana Trantow. If you are look­ing to fund your busi­ness idea, it is impor­tant to under­stand how pri­vate equi­ty dif­fers from tra­di­tion­al l…
• TED talks that can help you become more productive
• The 8 Qualities of a Great Design Leader
• This Website Shows You What It’s Like to Have Dyslexia
• Tame Long Email Threads Using This Easy Trick
• TextExpander Switches to a Subscription Model, Here’s How to Take Your Snippets Elsewhere
• How to Get Price Alerts on Any Product You Want to Buy
• Why Creative People Shouldn’t Brainstorm at Their Desk
• How Designers Are Helping HIV Researchers Find A Vaccine
• Common Personality Traits To Help You Become Successful Self-Made Millionaires
• Photoshop an Artistic Double Exposure
• 3 Steps To Fight FoMO — The Fear of Missing Out
• What Are the Most Authentic Brands in the World?
• 5 Millennial Stereotypes: Fact, Fiction, or Scapegoat?
• Young People Used These Absurd Little Cards to Get Laid in the 19th Century
• First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the road­side police “tex­t­alyz­er”
• The Strategy of Design
• Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics
• 18 Quick Photoshop Tips for Beginners
• TED: Food for thought for millions
• InDesign CC: Mastering Objects | Video Training with Pariah Burke
• Are You a Rude Emailer? If You Use These Words You Might Be
• A Father, a Dying Son, and the Quest to Make the Most Profound Videogame Ever
• ABC’s of Authors on Instagram: Everything Your Account Should Have
• The Process of Making Printing Ink Is Wonderfully Mesmerizing

  There are lots of “see how it’s made” videos run­ning around the inter­net and not all of them are inter­est­ing, but this rough­ly nine-minute clip of how to make print­ing ink is one of the best I have ever seen.

  Tags: Design CMYK pre­press

• Mindfulness (Video Course) for Business, Health, and Well-Being
  Scientific stud­ies con­firm that mind­ful­ness leads to per­for­mance, health, and well-being. That’s why lead­ing com­pa­nies like Google and Deutsche Bank imple­ment mind­ful­ness pro­grams for their people.

  UCLA pro­fes­sor and exec­u­tive coach John Ullmen, PhD…

• Photoshop CC 2015 for Photographers: Fundamentals
  Photoshop CC 2015 for Photographers pro­vides an intro­duc­tion to Photoshop aimed specif­i­cal­ly at the needs of pho­tog­ra­phers. In this install­ment, teacher Chris Orwig cov­ers the most essen­tial skills: crop­ping, improv­ing expo­sure, paint­ing col­or and ligh…
• InDesign CC: Mastering Productivity with Pariah Burke (Video Training)

  Pariah Burke’s Mastering InDesign Productivity gives you dozens of tips, tricks, and tech­niques to help you mas­ter work­ing pro­duc­tively, ef­fi­ciently, with max­i­mum cre­ativ­ity, in InDesign. The goal of this course is to save you time and mon­ey, clock­ing less over­time and hav­ing more life-time.

• 5 Signs Your Business Might Be Ready for PR
  Do you have a tar­get mar­ket, a plan–or a bud­get? These tips can help you know when it’s time to put PR to the test for your business.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance Startup
• The Triumph of the Serial
  The cre­ator of Downton Abbey has released a nov­el. It’s an app—and also a series of “episodes” that air each week.

  
  

  Julian Fellowes’s New Novel, ‘Belgravia’ and the Resurrection of the Serial – The Atlantic

  Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub

• The Print-on-Demand Revolution Opens New Doors for Authors & Publishers
  Print-on-demand will rev­o­lu­tion­ize how pub­lish­ers cre­ate and sell books, open­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to test new authors and reach new audiences.Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub
• Chill. It’s Not Books vs. Amazon. You Can Have Both!
  Books have been able to resist the forces of dig­i­tal change because books real­ly are different.Tags: ePublishing eprd­ctn epub
• 4 Ways to Build a Long, Happy Career in UX Design
  Phil Clevenger, Director of Experience Design at Adobe, shares his foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ples for launch­ing a career in UX design – or any oth­er field.

  So with the ben­e­fit of that expe­ri­ence — and grat­i­tude for it — I’d like to share some bedrock prin­ci­ples inter­nal­ized along the way, which I con­tin­ue to prac­tice today, how­ev­er imper­fect­ly; prin­ci­ples that will hope­ful­ly help you, too, cre­ate a long, hap­py career in UX design, wher­ev­er it may take you.

  Tags: Ui UX design

• Twitter for Business: 10 Case Studies and What You Can Learn From Them
• Learn Product Photography: Fundamentals (Video Course)
• How to Move to Canada If Trump Wins, By a Person Who Moved to Canada When Bush Won
• A Visual Guide to the Deep and Dark Web
• 40 Free Infographic Templates to Download
• Best Practices For Web Designers: Responsive Layouts Or Native Apps? [Op-Ed]
• Responding to ‘adblock­a­lypse’
• Obama’s Policy Legacy: The Nation He Built
• 15 Must Use Tools for Email Marketers
• Stop the Fight! The Ad-Block Debate is Over.
• Adam Grant: The sur­pris­ing habits of orig­i­nal thinkers
• Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think
• Chart: $7.2bn Will Be Lost in Money Spent on Online Ads This Year
• Dilemmas That Designers Face Every Now And Then
• Art Nouveau and Victorian Color Palettes in Graphic Design – and era of dec­o­ra­tive arts

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