Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 27 January 2016

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

• Judging Films Before They Release
  These state­ments, more often than not, arrive before see­ing lit­tle or no evi­dence to sup­port such a claim.Tags: SuicideSquad BatmanvSuperman
• WhatsApp Is Now Free For Everyone, No Subscription Required
  WhatsApp is one of the most pop­u­lar alter­na­tive mes­sag­ing apps in the world, despite charg­ing most users $0.99 per year. Now, that fee is going away for everyone.Tags: WhatsApp
• The 28 Best Tools for Choosing a Colour Scheme
  Creating a colour scheme is essen­tial to good design. We’ve gath­ered togeth­er some fan­tas­tic tools to help you per­fect your colour choices.

  Tags: Design

• Jack Dorsey’s first 90 days at Twitter CEO
  Jack Dorsey has worked to fix many things at Twitter dur­ing three months as CEO, but the stock is lan­guish­ing and investors are still wait­ing for the big plan.Tags: Twitter
• The Bare Truth about Digital Textbooks

  Students would pre­fer print­ed text if cost wasn’t an issue. One researcher believes dig­i­tal text­books may be harm­ing our next generation.

  
  

  Tags: ePublishing k12 high­ered edu

• How Managers Become Leaders: Navigating the Seven Seismic Shifts
  What I found is that to make the tran­si­tion suc­cess­ful­ly, exec­u­tives must nav­i­gate a tricky set of changes in their lead­er­ship focus and skills, which I call the sev­en seis­mic shifts. 

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs

• The Trickle-Down Effect of Good (and Bad) Leadership
  We want­ed to know how such “social con­ta­gion” affects lead­ers. We already know that good lead­er­ship cre­ates engaged employ­ees and that lead­ers influ­ence a vari­ety of out­comes such as per­son­nel turnover, cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion, sales, rev­enue, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, and so on. But if you’re a good leader, do you make the peo­ple around you more like­ly to become good lead­ers as well? And which behav­iors are most read­i­ly “caught”?

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership

• How to Design for Screen More Efficiently With Illustrator
  Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for design­ing icons and oth­er vec­tor graph­ics for both print and screen. But as a design­er who cre­ates art­work pri­mar­i­ly for screen, I have found that some uncon­ven­tion­al meth­ods in Illustrator can make it even more e…
• The Best Way to Contact People for Generating New Paid Work
  I reg­u­lar­ly empha­sise that the best thing you can do for your free­lance busi­ness (or any busi­ness, real­ly) is to reg­u­lar­ly con­nect with rel­e­vant people.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership
• One Woman Photoshopped by 18 Countries: Body Beauty Standards Revealed
  Inspired by that project, the UK med­ical web­site Superdrug Online Doctor just pub­lished a sim­i­lar exper­i­ment that explores body image.This is the orig­i­nal por­trait that was sent out to 18 free­lance design­ers in 18 coun­tries around the world:
• Losing Copyrights through Social Media
  Are com­pa­nies, like Olapic and Candid​.io, tak­ing con­trol of images that you upload to social media?Tags: Copyright IP IPLaw Art Design Illustration
• Comical Thoughts That You’ve Probably Had During Dull Meetings
  We know you hate them—those dry, bor­ing work get-togethers that every­one can’t wait to escape from.

  This amus­ing clip…

  Tags: Humor

• Social Media for Nonprofits
  Learn about social media for non­prof­its. Discover the best free and paid mar­ket­ing strate­gies for pro­mot­ing non­prof­its on social media, includ­ing Facebook and Twitter.Tags: non­prof­it dogood change
• Clients From Hell: Being Underpaid and Undervalued
  Even with a con­tract and a deposit in place, things go wrong in this anony­mous accounts of client woes cour­tesy of clientsfromhell.net.Tags: Design Business
• 25 Tips for Staying Sane as a Freelancer
  Banish pro­cras­ti­na­tion, boost pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, net­work more effec­tive­ly and always get paid with these pro tips for freelancers.Tags: Freelance
• What 2015 Taught Us About Ad Blocking
  But for main­stream U.S. Internet users, 2015 is the year ad block­ing was front page news.Tags: adblockalypse
• What If “Fake It ‘Til You Make It” Never Ends?
  Mary Elizabeth Ellis of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Grinder on the best approach to tack­ling impos­tor syndrome.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs

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