Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 30 May 2014

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  • MPC deliv­ers razor-sharp VFX for X‑Men: Days of Future Past
    X‑Men: Days of Future Past has smashed into the box-office, fea­tur­ing 372 shots from lead VFX stu­dio MPC, includ­ing a huge fully-CG mutant slay­er, vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments and CG air­craft and pyramids.
  • Mobile Apps–Why Your Business Probably Doesn’t Need One (Sorry Conduit)

    But don’t let the preva­lence of apps in gen­er­al seduce you into think­ing you need one. Note that the biggest ways con­sumers are using apps is for mes­sag­ing and social media, close­ly fol­lowed by things that help them be more pro­duc­tive, fol­lowed by enter­tain­ment. If your app doesn’t do these things, chances are good your cus­tomers don’t need it.

  • The 10 Most Common Mistakes Of Loyalty Program Marketing

    Whether you run a loy­al­ty pro­gram or are think­ing about launch­ing one, you’re fac­ing dozens of deci­sions about how to boost the life­time val­ue of your cus­tomers. To help you make the right choic­es, we’ve gath­ered a list of the most com­mon mis­takes seen by mar­ket­ing exec­u­tives who have designed, launched, and man­aged loy­al­ty pro­grams. We also spoke to experts in the field for advice on how to avoid them. Consider this a check­list for mak­ing sure your loy­al­ty pro­gram is on the right track to achieve max­i­mum ROI.

  • On the Seventh Day, We Unplug: How and Why to Take a Tech Sabbath
    It also cre­ates a bad case of depen­den­cy. When a study was done with col­lege stu­dents that asked them to abstain from con­sum­ing any media for 24 hours and then write about the expe­ri­ence, many described their attach­ment to their phones and comp…
  • Adobe Will be Revealing the ‘Next Evolution of Creative Cloud’ at June 18th Live Event

    Mark your cal­en­dars ladies and gen­tle­men, because “the next evo­lu­tion of Creative Cloud” will be revealed dur­ing a live-streaming keynote on June 18th at 1pm Eastern, and it promis­es to be a doozy of an announcement.

  • Remembering Graphic Designer, Massimo Vignelli, 1931–2014
    “I learned how to design at design school. But I learned how to be a design­er from Massimo Vignelli.”
  • How to Put a Stop to Image Theft

    There are few things more frus­trat­ing to a pho­tog­ra­ph­er than hav­ing your work stolen — and yet, in this Internet age, it hap­pens all the time. When the day comes that you click through to an arti­cle or blog post and sur­pris­ing­ly see your own images star­ing back at you, with­out cred­it or link or per­mis­sion, you’ll be out­raged like thou­sands of oth­er pho­tog­ra­phers have been before you. But what can you do? Is there any way to tru­ly pro­tect your work? And when some­one does steal your stuff, what are your options? Do you con­tact the per­son? Pursue legal action?

    To help answer those ques­tions, here’s a look at strate­gies and tips for stop­ping image theft:

  • Set a Screen Saver as Your Mac’s Desktop Background
    That’s it, your default screen saver should now run on your desk­top. To stop it and return to nor­mal, just close the open Terminal window.
  • The 25 Worst (Best) Spelling Mistakes on Twitter

    Sumtimes peo­ple tweet and there spelling isn’t quite what it should bee. Sumtimes it’s meaks things bet­ter. Hear are sum of those tweets.

  • Facebook New Mobile App “Phone Conversation Listening” Not As “Creepy” As Claimed
    But here’s the thing. You must explic­it­ly opt in to turn the fea­ture on. It will not be on by default. And Facebook main­tains that the record­ed sounds will not be stored.