Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 February 2017

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

• Best Time to Post on Instagram in 2020 – A 2.2 Million Posts Research
• 10 Lessons for young designers
  These are some insight­ful and thought-provoking lessons from Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay: 10 Lessons for young designers.
• Can Apple Make You Want an iPad Again?
  But sev­en years lat­er, the iPad is in trou­ble. True, Apple still makes the most tablet ship­ments in the world, accord­ing to the lat­est esti­mates from research firm IDC. But it’s the biggest ship in a quick­ly evap­o­rat­ing lake. Global tablet ship­ments fell by 20.1% in the fourth quar­ter of 2016, IDC says. Apple’s total iPad ship­ments dropped 19% in its most recent quar­ter, it announced Tuesday, while rev­enue from the devices is down 22%.
• Accelerometers Could Finally Fix the NFL’s Concussion Crisis
• Where to Find Free Wi-Fi at U.S. and International Airports [INFOGRAPHIC]

  “For fre­quent fliers, noth­ing is more bliss­ful than an air­port with free Wi-Fi. But not every stopover loca­tion is so generous.

  Airfarewatchdog assem­bled two handy charts that detail every­thing you need to know about wire­less con­nec­tions at ma…

• Why Unrest is Gold for Creatives
• 100 Years Of Infographics From National Geographic
• Creativity could stop robots from automat­ing work­ers out of jobs
• Unsplash 5.0 – Stock Photos on Crack
  Thousands of icon­ic pho­tos. Billions of views. One mas­sive­ly cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty. And today — it gets even better.
• What Really Makes a Great Place to Work
• Using Photography, Imagery, & Video in Your Brand Style Guide
  Photography and video are impor­tant brand ele­ments. A brand style guide must guide their use as well as set forth pro­ce­dures and rules for obtain­ing prop­er­ly licensed and released stock imagery, and how to future proof the brand against copy­right infri…
• How to Make More Precise Selections with Photoshop’s Select and Mask
• Why Millennials Don’t Run for Office – VICE
  “I think a lot of them found this elec­tion dis­gust­ing,” says a researcher who wants more young peo­ple to get involved in politics.
• EU announces deal to end all wire­less roam­ing charges start­ing June 2017
• Ridiculously easy way to remove pow­er lines from a pho­to in Photoshop
• Unconscious bias hurts more than diversity
• 9 Things Ridiculously Productive People Do Every Day
• Is Photoshop Worth the Money?
• Best Times To Post On Social Media According To 16 Studies
• 25 Best Photo Effect Tutorials with Photoshop |
• Forget The “Praise Sandwich”: Five Better Ways To Give Good Feedback
• The Best Free WordPress Plugins for Contact Forms
  Discover three easy ways to cre­ate WordPress con­tact forms.
• Great Jobs for Older Tech Pros
• Self-help author Tim Ferriss says social media is mak­ing us miserable
• Adobe Just Stopped Selling Creative Suite 6 Entirely – Here’s Why
  But with the CS6 soft­ware EOL (end-of-life) and end of sup­port, there were no fur­ther updates, no bug fix­es, and no guar­an­tees it will run on the lat­est or future oper­at­ing sys­tems. So final­ly, ear­li­er this month, Adobe ceased any remain­ing sales of CS…
• The 3 tenets of applied ethnography
• The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
• Incredible new graph­ic design app now includes pho­to­re­al­is­tic rendering
• Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
• The cre­ative part of UI design: Adding char­ac­ters and style
• Creating Line Art for a Colouring Book
• 17 Amazing Photoshop Effect Tutorials on Youtube
• Why I work remotely
• How To Boost Your Freelance Web Design Career By Building a Network

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• Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

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• The Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate Practice

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• Fonts & Feelings: Does Typography Connote Emotions?

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• Why Paper Is the Real ‘Killer App’

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• 35 Beautiful Cinemagraphs and How to Create Them in Photoshop
• Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost From the Young – NYTimes

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• Neon Text Effect Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

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• Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again

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• Create Sticker-like Music Icons in Adobe Illustrator

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• Meet the Man to Blame for Comic Sans

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• How To Create a Vintage Text Effect in Illustrator

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• Best Free WordPress Bookmark Plugins

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• Zoho Notebook Is a Card-Based Evernote-Alternative for Android, iPhone, and Mac

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• 5 “DISPOSABLE” Web Accounts to Keep Your Identity Safe

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• How to Create Custom RSS Feed in WordPress

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• Video Tutorial: Trendy Folded Logo Design in Illustrator

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• Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything

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• How to cre­ate a vec­tor ink effect in Adobe Illustrator

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• Defined Benefit Plans: The Overlooked Retirement Vehicle For Successful Entrepreneurs
• Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
• Why Women Quit Working: It’s Not for the Reasons Men Do – NYTimes
  The go-to expla­na­tions for why so many men — even in their prime work­ing years — have dropped out of the labor force do not apply to Krystin Stevenson.
• How to Change Your Life Without It Being a Constant Struggle
• Online DesignTalk: Creating design-driven data visu­al­iza­tion | DesignTalks
• Your Business Needs Six Months in the Bank
• A Quick Animated History of Why We Use the Numbers We Use
• How sta­tis­tics lost their pow­er – and why we should fear what comes next
• 1,000 True Fans is All You Need for Success
• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
• Technology and the Evolution of the Designer’s Role
  Today, we often asso­ciate design with activ­i­ties like user expe­ri­ence, graph­ic and web design, or per­haps fash­ion and prod­uct design. Mass com­mu­ni­ca­tions and mass pro­duc­tion brought with them the need for spe­cif­ic skills in cre­at­ing posters and product…
• 5 Dropbox Tips to Get More Done
• Fontself – Make your own fonts in Illustrator or Photoshop
• Photoshop Tip: Flow vs. Opacity with the Paintbrush Tool
  Do you know the dif­fer­ence between the Opacity and Flow slid­ers when using the paint­brush tool?
• Managing a Team That’s Been Asked to Do Too Much
• How voice tech­nol­o­gy is trans­form­ing computing
• InDesign CC EPUB Building on the Fundamentals
  In this course you will go beyond cre­at­ing text-only EPUBs. Pariah Burke will start off by help­ing you con­vert print book lay­outs to ebook, spec­i­fy­ing sto­ry and imagery order through dif­fer­ent means. Next you will learn how to for­mat and include cover…
• How to Avoid Chaos in Your Style Sheets
• So You Want to Make iOS 10 Stickers? Here’s How!
• Using Design Sprints to Increase Food Donations
• 8 free apps for pick­ing a colour scheme |
• Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time – The Economist
• Cyberwar for Sale – The New York Times
• 15 Super Useful Web Typography Tools and Frameworks
• Nine Experts on the Books That Inspired Them
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• Successful peo­ple use these tech­niques to speak up for themselves—and stay likable
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• Photoshop For Old People – Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider
  Now that I am appar­ent­ly “Officially Old,” I thought it was time to share some of the PhotoShop secrets that I usu­al­ly just share with oth­er folks like me while hav­ing din­ner at 4:30 pm. Here we go:
• What You Need to Stand Out in a Noisy World
• 9 Things to Consider Before Launching a Facebook Live Promotion!
• 99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts | 99 Ways to Type ‘I Love You’
• 15 Email Newsletter Examples We Love Getting in Our Inboxes
• What I Wish My Boss Knew About My Mental Health Career Advice
• What Do Millennials Want at Work? 3 Employer Dealbreakers
• How to avoid cre­ative burnout |
• New to Freelancing? 9 Things You Need to Know
• Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
• Six Things You Should Know About Flying, According to Flight Attendants
• This Map Guides You to Great Photography Hotspots Around the World
• Adobe wants you to edit pho­tos by voice with Siri-style assistant
• Watch a Photoshop Master Effortlessly Move This Car to a Beautiful Mountain Setting
• 2017 Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet
• 9 Dumb PowerPoint Mistakes You Always Make in Presentations
• 21 Ways to Inspire Creativity When You’re Out of Ideas
• Proof the Creators of Batman: The Animated Series Knew What They Were Doing From the Start
• 5 Ways to Engage Millennial Employees Through Cause
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• The Key to Understanding Your Social Anxiety
• Should You Take Notes By Hand or Electronically?
• Use Quantity Queries to Make Your CSS Quantity-Aware
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• Astropad Studio makes iPad Pro the ulti­mate art tool
• Roll Your Own, Self-Hosted Image Gallery with Chevereto
• 10 Steps to Starting a Side Business While Working a Full-Time Job
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• How to Pair Fonts
• Create a Print-Friendly Page with Gutenberg.css
• The Search for the Perfect Mac Desktop Gmail Client
• Don’t Rummage Around for Photoshop’s Hidden Tools: Use These Keyboard Shortcuts Instead
• 10 Free Apps for LinkedIn You Need To Know
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• 12 Reasons Why Evernote is THE Choice for Tax Management and Financial Organization for the Self-Employed
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• The myth of the dupli­cate con­tent penalty
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• 10 Blogs Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Read
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• 3 Rules you must set for your­self to thrive as a freelancer

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• Where To Find New & Good Writers (Best 5)
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• Counteracting Content Shock
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• There’s a Word for Using Truthful Facts to Deceive: Paltering
• How Amazon inno­vates in ways that Google and Apple can’t
• Defining Brand Typography by Pariah Burke (Creating a Brand Style Guide, Part 4)

  Design is how you look. Type is how you sound. The tone of voice used by your type is your brand’s fonts. They need to be care­ful­ly select­ed, faith­ful­ly syn­chro­nized, and rig­or­ous­ly pro­tect­ed as the licensed intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty they are.

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• Fraud in Silicon Valley: Startups Show Their Unethical Underside
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• Why Some People Get Burned Out and Others Don’t
• How to Turn Your Infographic into a Lead Magnet
• How To Add A Dash Or Dotted Stroke To Shapes & Paths In Photoshop
• How to Display Text on Image With CSS3 mix-blend-mode
• The Most Effective Way to Say No Is to Say You “Don’t,” not You “Can’t”
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• Turn Your Brainstorm Into a Mind Map for Maximum Insight
• 12 UX rules every design­er should know
• 6 Psychological Reasons Behind People’s Online Behavior
• Use spac­ing effec­tive­ly in typography |
• 6 Sensational Strategies for Becoming a Stellar Presenter
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• 15 Creators Dissect Authenticity in Influencer Marketing
• How to Take Good Self-Portraits and Selfies
• CreativeSync: 10 ways it can enhance your agency |
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• Essential Apps For Coffee Lovers [Infographic]
• How to Become an Interaction Designer: A Kickoff into IxD Career
• Creating Your Logo Design Questionnaire
• I’m Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Adobe, and This Is How I Work
• How I make $400 a month in Passive Income by Self-Publishing

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• Why Slacking Off Can Speed Up Your Productivity
• History of Typography: A Few You Should Know
• Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
• Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
• Scope Creep Is Killing Your Bottom Line: Here’s How to Prevent It
• 30 Free Magic Bitmap Texture Graphics for Adobe Illustrator
• Hilarious Short Animation Shows the Random Ways You Can Die in Space
• 12 Overlooked & Underappreciated Typefaces
• 8 Scheduling Hacks to 10X Your Productivity
• Designing Interactive PDFs in InDesign | Video Training by Pariah Burke
• How To Find The Dominant Colors In An Image on macOS
• This Website Knows Everything About You (Even Your Future)
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• 10 Sites to Download High Quality Stock Videos for Free
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• The 5 Best Ways to Use Evernote (That I Haven’t Tried Yet)
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• How to Rename Any Computer, Smartphone, or Tablet
• 99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts

  Below you will find 99 Valentine’s Day and love-inspired fonts—and they’re all free! You can down­load each of them in TrueType for­mat for use on either Windows or Mac OS X.

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• App​.net is shut­ting down March 2017.
• Flawed Typefaces
• How to Work 40 Hours in 16.7 (The Simple Technique That Gave Me My Life Back)
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• Why Graphic Designers Should Avoid Work for Hire Agreements
• The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn’t Know You Joined
• Create an Animated Favicon Loader with JavaScript
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• How to mas­ter colour theory |
  We cut through the jar­gon to explain the basic con­cepts and ter­mi­nol­o­gy of colour the­o­ry, in words that you can understand.
• Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You – ProPublica
• Top 10 Cheat Sheets to Help You Master Microsoft Office
• 15 Designers’ New Year Resolutions for 2017
• The Experience Economy (Paid Post by Citigold From The New York Times)
• How Just 4 Steps Can Help You Enjoy a 5‑Hour Work Day
• Top 10 Tech Security Basics Every Person Should Follow
• 10 rea­sons not to date a designer
• Going Rogue: How to tell if you’re ready to start full-time free­lanc­ing in 2017
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• Verizon Forcing Customers to Drop Their Unlimited Wireless Data Plans
  Verizon is telling their unlim­it­ed wire­less data plans so cus­tomers to switch to a capped data plan or face hav­ing their phone disconnected.Tags: Verizon
• Decriminalizing Typography: Declaring an End to the War on “Type Crimes”
• 20+ Free Printable Calendars for 2017
• 5 New Year’s Resolution Ideas From the World’s Greatest Minds
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• Black Girls Code Founder On Importance Of Diversity And Women In Technology
• Cultivate Opportunity, Rather Than Sticking to a Plan, to Avoid a Mid-Life Crisis
• How to Install and Use Custom Illustrator Presets
• Free Document Scanning Apps Are Sleazy and Gross, Don’t Download Them
• 10 things you wish you’d been told about the design industry |
• 6 Simple Rules for Getting More Clients (From Your Website)
• 10 Remarkable Shadow Type & Lettering Designs
• Why your port­fo­lio doesn’t mat­ter as much as you think
• This Site Helps You Remember All the Things in 2016 That Didn’t Suck
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• Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer – The New York Times
• 5 Uses for Google Keep Beyond Note-Taking
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• 3 rea­sons why every woman should con­sid­er free­lanc­ing in her lifetime
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• Why an Investment in Good Graphic Design Is Always Worthy
• Is A Client Putting You In A Crunch — Charge a Rush Fee!
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• 7 Clever Evernote Features to Streamline Your Workflow
• 5 Reasons to Avoid Smart Assistants If You Value Your Privacy
• 3 Rules to avoid a com­plete client meltdown
• Open Color – UI-Optimized col­or scheme for designers
• How Fake News is Helping to Kill Off Native Ads
• Cher in legal trou­ble due to type­face law­suit accord­ing to TMZ.Font Management, Digital Asset Management and Creative Info
• Generate WordPress theme tem­plates with Underscores Components
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• The Genius Deck Helps Reset Your Brain When You’re Stuck on a Problem
• If You Can’t Be Trusted With Little Things, No One Will Help With Big Things
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• Why Data Cap Exemptions Are More Harmful Than You Think
• How to Save for Retirement When You’re a Freelancer or Self-Employed
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• How Well Do Cough Medicines Work (If They Work at All)?
• How to Quickly Fix Chromatic Aberration in Photoshop
• The Internet Archive Fact-Checks President Trump
• Why Apple was bad for the envi­ron­ment (and why that’s changing)

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