Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 29 December 2015

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

• Jan 10th T.S.A. May Begin Rejecting Some State Driver’s Licenses for Travel
  Passengers who do not have a com­pli­ant type of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion will have to pro­duce anoth­er type of government-approved identification.Tags: Travel roadwarrior
• The iPad Pro Is Now My Only Travel Gadget – Wired
  If you trav­el a lot, you should buy an iPad Pro, or one of the many devices like it from Microsoft, Dell, Google, and oth­ers. These two-in-one laptop-tablet hybrid devices are the best trav­el com­pan­ion since plane-friendly liquor bottles.Tags: iPadPro…
• Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis
  Entrepreneurs can be eas­i­ly dis­tract­ed by the many vari­ables a new busi­ness must deal with. Avoid over­analy­sis by focus­ing on a nar­row subset.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• Dictate Better with These Tips From Somebody Who’s Done It For 50 Years
  Dictation results in bet­ter struc­tured and more cre­ative writ­ing. Learn prin­ci­ples of excel­lent dic­ta­tion from some­body who’s dic­tat­ed doc­u­ments for near­ly fifty years.
• Quiz: If You Were a Pantone Color, Which One Would You Be?
  Quiz: If You Were a Pantone Color, Which One Would You Be?Tags: Pantone Design
• Luxury Tea Brand Launches A PANTONE-Inspired Collection Of Soothing Flavors
  In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Pantone Color Institute, Vancouver, Canada-based lux­u­ry tea blender, Tealeaves, has launched a brand new pack­ag­ing design for their icon­ic Whole Leaf Pyramid Teabag collection. 

  Tags: Pantone Design

• Bob Ross Ipsum Generates Dummy Text with Happy Little Paragraphs
  Need to gen­er­ate some place­hold­er text? Sure, you could use the stan­dard Latin gib­ber­ish, but a more sooth­ing and enter­tain­ing alter­na­tive is this gen­er­a­tor using quotes from painter Bob Ross.Tags: InDesign
• Photoshop 101: A Quick Guide to Photoshop Filters and What They Do
  Photoshop comes with a few dozen fil­ters of its own and these are more than enough for ama­teurs and hob­by­ists. Here’s a quick guide to what they do.Tags: Photoshop
• Illustrator CC for Web Design: Image Optimization [Video]
  Learn how to use Illustrator CC to opti­mize images, includ­ing JPEGs, PNGs, GIFs, and high-resolution images for Apple’s HiDPI Retina dis­plays, and enhance the per­for­mance of your websites.Tags: Vector Illustrator
• Self-Censoring Font Redacts Words the Feds Are Watching For

  IF EDWARD SNOWDEN taught us any­thing, it’s that the gov­ern­ment is always watch­ing, always lis­ten­ing. Nothing escapes its notice, even that seem­ing­ly innocu­ous Facebook post you made about your trip to Mexico or your tweet about the amaz­ing pork bel­ly you had last night.

  Tags: Typography fonts design NSA

• This List of iOS Actions Get You Started with Automation
  Automation on iOS is a com­plex process, but over on One Tap Less, they’re col­lect­ing togeth­er some of the most use­ful actions for 1Writer, Drafts, Editorial, Launch Center Pro, Pythonista, Workflow, and even Safari.

  Tags: iOS iPhone Design Productivity

• 80 Twitter Tools for Almost Everything
  We’ve com­piled a list of 80 free Twitter tools that can help you ana­lyze all aspects of your Twitter account, dis­cov­er new users and top­ics, track and man­age your fol­low­ers and Twitter lists, find and orga­nize group chats and sched­ule tweets indi­vid­u­al­ly or in a group. Also includ­ed are WordPress plu­g­ins, Twitter clients, as well as oth­er tools that help you do mis­cel­la­neous things on Twitter.

  Tags: Twitter SMM

• 3 Ways to Motivate Employees Without Spending Money
  Is your com­pa­ny cul­ture feel­ing a bit dull? Here are some ways to moti­vate employ­ees that won’t break your budget.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
• 4 Unexpected Ways to Attract Customers
  Seeking cre­ative ways to attract cus­tomers that help you stand out from the crowd? Here are some unusu­al tac­tics used by small businesses.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• 11 Best Practices for Optimizing Sign-Up and Landing Pages
  It’s crit­i­cal for a web­site to not dis­cour­age vis­i­tors from click­ing away. Entrepreneurs share their best prac­tices to opti­mize sign-up and land­ing pages.
• Sitting Up Straight Is Bad: The Right Way to Sit at a Desk
  If you think sit­ting up straight is the answer to back pain, think again. It actu­al­ly puts more stress on your back.
• A Guaranteed Way to Leave Work and Feel a Sense of Accomplishment Every Day

  Using a 10-minute Daily Review is a sure-fire way to leave work every day and feel a sense of accom­plish­ment. Additionally, you will enjoy the cor­re­spond­ing decrease in stress that comes with know­ing you com­plet­ed every­thing you want­ed to get done for the day.

  Tags: pro­duc­tiv­i­ty todo gtd

• ’Til Death Do Us Part: 10 Vows Designers Should Make To Themselves

  Your ded­i­ca­tion to design might some­times feel like the most demand­ing rela­tion­ship in your life, and for many design­ers, it is! Are you ready to take your com­mit­ment to the next step? Make these 10 vows and you’ll be sure to live hap­pi­ly ever after.

  Tags: Design Business

• The Smartest Ways to Network at a Party – WSJ
  Reading a room is a skill that can be learned; keep an eye out for non­ver­bal cues like how peo­ple stand or hold their hands.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• The Subtle Art of Being a Designer at a Massive Company
  3M’s glob­al head of design Eric Quint on trans­lat­ing the empa­thy you have for cus­tomers to your colleagues.

  Tags: Design Business InHouse

• Cards Against Humanity Should Be Business of the Year with This
  The pop­u­lar yet mild­ly offen­sive card game, post­ed a heart­warm­ing mes­sage to their web­site about gen­eros­i­ty and com­pas­sion dur­ing the hol­i­day season:

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