The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Serif’s new Affinity line aims to compete with Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
Welcome to the fastest, smoothest, most precise professional graphic design software, exclusively for Mac. Visit to download a free trial now!Tags: Illustrator InDesign Photoshop
- Adiós RadioShack and Thanks for all the Batteries
The NYSE stopped trading of RadioShack stock today and will delist the stock. The Shack will be gone soon. Online shopping and a lack of foresight killed it. Someday someone will find all those paper receipts with names and addresses in a storage locker and they’ll ask themselves, “what the hell is a 9‑volt battery and what was this place called RadioShack?”
Tags: RadioShack
- I schedule my social media shares. I don’t automate them. Someone defined the difference here:
We talk a lot about how scheduling some of your messages can save you a lot of time and can also help you control the “beast” that social media can be on your time. What I don’t like is when people confuse scheduling with automation—or maybe they don’t confuse the two and just want to spread the same message to everyone time and again.
- How Reducing Options Can Increase Conversions [Infographic]
One of the most common tenets of conversion optimization is that fewer options = higher conversions. When you give people too many options, they get confused trying to compare them, and end up choosing no option.
- The simplest way to create happy clients who will promote you
The type of client who’s so proud of the work you’ve done for them, they become word of mouth evangelists, promoting your business to everyone they know.
- The simplest way to create happy clients who will promote you
The type of client who’s so proud of the work you’ve done for them, they become word of mouth evangelists, promoting your business to everyone they know.
- Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides
In much the same way as we found wireframe sketching brand identities incredibly inspirational, web UI style guides have the same effect.Tags: UI UX
- Designing WordPress Themes for Printing
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how WordPress users and theme developers can design their WordPress themes for printing by using some basic CSS.
- Designing WordPress Themes for Printing
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how WordPress users and theme developers can design their WordPress themes for printing by using some basic CSS.
- Designing WordPress Themes for Printing
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how WordPress users and theme developers can design their WordPress themes for printing by using some basic CSS.
- 5 Ways That Adobe Systems Disrupted Itself – Forbes
As a result, Adobe Systems — whose stock has climbed 114% in the last five years — is a case study of how to adapt to so-called disruptive technologies – products that give customers comparable benefits at much lower prices and require incumbents to change their strategy and business processes to sustain their market leadership.
- Young Adults’ Changing Socioeconomic Characteristics, 1980–2013
The Census Bureau recently released new statistics from the American Community Survey, also highlighting how young adults’ socioeconomic characteristics have changed over the past few decades. The results include some intriguing data: this cohort’s share of the population has actually declined…
- 6 Growth Hack Techniques You Can Try Today
One of the best ways to understand growth hacking is to, well, get started doing it.
- Beautiful 16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways
Printed in the late 16th century this small book from the National Library of Sweden is an example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding, where six books are conjoined into a single publication but can be read individually with the help of six perfectly placed clasps.
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- So You Want to Be an In-House Graphic Designer?
They design; next question! OK, so it’s not exactly that simple (though that is many a graphic designer’s initial answer). Let’s break down the roles commonly found within an in-house position:
Tags: DesignInHouse