Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 6 January 2016

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

• 85 Most Powerful Photos Of The 21st Century That Are Hard To Forget

  In this col­lec­tion, we’ve list­ed some of the most pow­er­ful pho­tographs of the 21st cen­tu­ry that per­fect­ly cap­ture the human emo­tion relat­ed to the love, inno­cence, despair, loss, action, and undy­ing per­se­ver­ance with­in all of us. We’ve com­piled this col­lec­tion by tak­ing into account cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance, news val­ue and over­all aesthetics.

• Twitter May Increase Tweets To 10,000 Characters, But Hide All Past 140

  On the oth­er hand, one of the best things about Twitter is the infor­ma­tion den­si­ty. Since users have to con­dense their thoughts into bite-size knowl­edge nuggets, it’s easy to learn a lot while quick­ly scrolling through the time­line. Dropping the char­ac­ter lim­it could dilute the stream with bab­bling, and make us inter­rupt scrolling to con­stant­ly expand tweets to their full length.

  Tags: Twitter Keep140 Beyond140

• 5 Ways to Be Productive as a Part-Time Founder

  Working on a start-up while doing 12-hour shifts as doc­tor is pret­ty gru­elling. More often than not, I would come home com­plete­ly destroyed and want to col­lapse into bed. Also, there are the night shifts, the week­end shifts, the unholy hours worked that was prob­a­bly dur­ing a pub­lic holiday.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Startup

• The Startup Playbook
  To have a suc­cess­ful start­up, you need: a great idea, a great mar­ket, a great team, a great prod­uct, and great execution.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Startup
• Managing Projects with Box​.com [1‑Hour Video]
  Learn how to man­age your projects with Box, the online con­tent man­age­ment software.Tags: gtd leadership
• Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create Vintage Type Styles
  Bobby Haiqalsyah explains how to cre­ate a stun­ning piece of retro typog­ra­phy in IllustratorTags: Vector Illustrator
• Lumosity Has to Pay $2 Million for Lying About Its Bullsh*t Brain Games 
  Lumosity, which cre­at­ed a brain game pow­er­house by telling peo­ple it could make them smarter, is pay­ing for its lies. Lumos Labs will pay the Federal Trade Commission $2 mil­lion for decep­tive trade practices.
• How to Create a Unique Abstract Line Background in Photoshop
  In this tuto­r­i­al I will show you how to cre­ate an abstract back­ground using gradients,vector shapes and lay­er styles to cre­ate the illu­sion of depth. The results can then be cus­tomized and made unique to your own per­son­al preference.Tags: Photoshop Gr…
• The ‘Manterruption’: Speaking While Female
  When a man talks in a meet­ing, he gets heard. But when a woman does, she gets “man­ter­rupt­ed” or called too aggres­sive. This week at Vooza HQ, the female mem­bers of staff attempt a few not so sub­tle workarounds.

  Tags: ever­day­sex­ism hefor­she glass­ceil­ing

• The Great Divide In Content Marketing [Infographic]

  Embraced by brands and mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als around the world, con­tent mar­ket­ing con­tin­ues to cap­ture bud­get and pri­or­i­ty in the mar­ket­ing mix. But there’s a star­tling con­trast in the moti­va­tions behind con­tent mar­ket­ing and the actu­al results. Check out this info­graph­ic that shows how the actu­al results of con­tent mar­ket­ing don’t always line up with what we’re intend­ing or expect­ing from our efforts – and a few impor­tant tips for mar­keters seek­ing to close that gap. How are your con­tent mar­ket­ing results com­par­ing with your ambi­tions? Any big dis­con­nects you’ve seen in what con­tent is sup­posed to be doing vs. what it’s actu­al­ly doing for your business?

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing

• Create Delicious Donut Text That Will Make You Hungry

  In this tuto­r­i­al, I will walk you through the process of mak­ing a yum­my sweet text in Photoshop. We will use the basic tools and effects along to achieve the final out­come in short time. So let’s begin!

  Tags: Photoshop

• What Successful Companies Do Differently
  Wondering what a suc­cess­ful com­pa­ny does dif­fer­ent­ly? Read Dr. Melissa Hughes’ ideas and get moti­vat­ed to make changes that will make real progress.
• How To Increase Your Employee’s Productivity With Video Conferencing
  Wondering how you can increase employ­ee pro­duc­tiv­i­ty? Click here to read a few tips!Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership
• How to hack your pas­sion. Why ‘do what you love’ is bad advice.

  Figuring out what you love to do, that can also make you a living, is really hard.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

• Web Design Trend Showcase: Super Gradients
  After the dom­i­nance of flat colours in web design I’ve noticed a new trend of gra­di­ent use begin­ning to emerge. Gradients are noth­ing new in web design, but the CSS prop­er­ty of linear-gradient now allows design­ers to add vibrant spec­trums of colour direct­ly to their code, rather than the tra­di­tion­al method of cre­at­ing a gra­di­ent image in Photoshop. One advan­tage of the CSS approach is the gra­di­ent can be scaled to any size, which makes it great for screen fill­ing gra­di­ent back­grounds. Today’s show­case fea­tures 25 exam­ples of these super gra­di­ents used as back­grounds, head­ers and overlays.

  Tags: Design WebDesign DesignforMobile

• Delightful Business Cards Designed To Look Like Tiny, Popular Classic Novels
  These unique busi­ness cards designed to look like tiny books will sure­ly leave a last­ing impres­sion on poten­tial clients.

  Singapore-based…Tags: Design Inspiration

• Artists’ Brains Are Structurally Different, Study Finds

  Do artists have dif­fer­ent brains than the rest of us? Or do our brains change when we do art regularly?

  A study pub­lished last week in the jour­nal NeuroImage con­firms that artists do indeed have dif­fer­ent brains – and reg­u­lar art prac­tice can per­ma­nent­ly change our brain structures.

  Tags: Design

• 140+ Google Services & Tools You Should Know (And Bookmark)
  Mention Google prod­ucts and you’d prob­a­bly think of Google Search, Gmail, Chrome, YouTube or Android but there are actu­al­ly more than a hun­dred Google services
• Make Tax Prep Easier With a Three Folder System
  In the next sev­er­al weeks, our 1099s, W2s, and oth­er tax-related doc­u­ments will be mak­ing their way to our mail­box­es. This means a big mess of paper­work come April. Make it easy on your­self by orga­niz­ing every­thing in a three fold­er system.
• 5 Psychological Tips to Use on Tricky Clients
  Got a killer idea? Here are five psy­cho­log­i­cal the­o­ries for help­ing influ­ence your clients.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• The Art of Socializing – Guy Kawasaki on Social Media Marketing
  Social media is free and ubiq­ui­tous, and offers entre­pre­neurs an unprece­dent­ed mar­ket­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty. Here are five prac­ti­cal tips on using it effectively.Tags: Marketing SMM socialmedia

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