Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 30 January 2016

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

• Adobe digs up Bob Ross’s grave to pro­mote Photoshop
  Adobe is using the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil to ape the calm, almost beatif­ic demeanor of Bob Ross.Tags: Photoshop
• Simulate Screenprint Effects in InDesign and Photoshop
  This project will show you how to sim­u­late over­print­ing with­in InDesign using raster imagery – and, even bet­ter, your own scanned art­work – while being able to change the colour of your art­work on-the-fly. A sec­ondary ben­e­fit is that you can have one PSD/TIFF file, but it can be repeat­ed as many times as you want in the doc­u­ment and each one can have a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent colour, reduc­ing the amount of files required to print.

  Tags: InDesign Photoshop

• 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations
  …and one weird trick you won’t believe works every time. And, no, this is not an addi­tion­al skill. Presenting is a core design skill.

  Tags: Design Business

• Why Writing Isn’t Enough—The Savvy Writer’s Guide to Success
  Many of you intro­vert­ed writer types are total­ly cring­ing right now. But if you want oth­ers to know what you’ve writ­ten, you have to do more than shut up and write. Writing is only half the bat­tle. We have to mar­ket it—tell peo­ple about it and hope to God they’ll listen.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting copy­writ­ing

• The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners

  As the say­ing goes, “The best way to pre­dict the future is to cre­ate it.” But how can busi­ness lead­ers make mean­ing of a play­ing field that is con­stant­ly chang­ing shape?

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs

• Sorry, Slack Lovers: You’ll Soon Hate Group Chat as Much as You Hate Email
  Group chat appli­ca­tions like Slack, HipChat, and oth­ers are due for a back­lash. People adored email once, too.Tags: Slack
• Input type=“better” Experience
  It’s the lit­tle things that make me hap­py. And you know what one lit­tle thing I’d like to see every time I wait for the bus in Portland? That one less touch/click be required to get arrival time by Stop ID.

  Tags: Ui UX web­de­sign mobiledesign

• The Case for Organized Creatives

  As a design­er, it’s my job to cre­ate order out of some­times abstract or oth­er­wise mis­un­der­stood con­cepts or tasks. For me, order cre­ates order. 

  Tags: Design Business

• Why Wearables Are Getting Out Of Your Face (And Off Your Wrist)
  A startup-pitch event shows how hard­ware is changing.
• The Best Free WordPress Plugins for Contact Forms
  Discover three easy ways to cre­ate WordPress con­tact forms.
• The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work
  How we spend time at work not work­ing is chang­ing the way we man­age work-life bal­ance, and it might not be what you think.
• 20 Literary Valentine’s Day Cards for Bookish Hearts
  Torn between your love of books and that spe­cial some­one? Here are 20 Literary Valentine’s Day cards.Tags: Writing AmWriting inspiration
• How to Win Big Projects

  I’m all for option two. And that’s what this blog post is about: how to increase your val­ue today so high-caliber clients real­ize you’re the obvi­ous choice.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

• The Benefits (And Challenges) Of Working With Remote Teams
  Of course, there are both ben­e­fits and chal­lenges that come along with remote work­ers. With the right sys­tems in place, you can boost pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and employ­ee sat­is­fac­tion. A hap­haz­ard approach will result in unnec­es­sary issues, however.Tags: Entrepr…
• Secrets of Top Magazine Editors…Revealed

  From killing your sacred cows to pos­tur­iz­ing your cov­er… here’s some sol­id advice from top mag­a­zine edi­tors on how to keep your title fresh and vital.

  Tags: ePublishing digipub edi­to­r­i­al

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