Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 6 October 2014

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

  • Cypherr: The Professional Platform and Network for Musicians
    Call it a pro­fes­sion­al net­work and music plat­form for up-and-coming musi­cians. Cypherr will change the way musi­cians reach fans with their new plat­form, exten­sive list of fea­tures and abil­i­ty to con­nect pro­fes­sion­als in the industry.

  • Automate Processes – Impress Your Clients by Using Zapier

    As free­lancers, so many goals are about sav­ing time and mon­ey, right? More time equals the oppor­tu­ni­ty to make more mon­ey and it’s a pos­i­tive cycle that just keeps going. One of the eas­i­est ways to save time, for any­one, is to auto­mate process­es that are nor­mal­ly done manually.

  • 8 Vital Things To Do On Facebook When You’re Looking For Work

    Facebook is a very engaged com­mu­ni­ty that is full of oppor­tu­ni­ties for job seek­ers. You just have to know what you’re doing.

  • 7 Practices Pro Designers Are Using To Improve Their Business

    It doesn’t have to be this way. There are var­i­ous tools avail­able for orga­niz­ing your work­flow, and stream­lin­ing your busi­ness. Ultimately, the less time you spend deal­ing with dis­tract­ing, non-essential tasks, the more you’d be able to focus your ener­gy on design­ing and deliv­er­ing high-quality projects, which is the whole point anyway.

  • 5 Annoying Web Design Trends You Should Avoid

    In this post, we’re going to try and point out some of the more “annoy­ing” things of cur­rent design trends. When you under­stand what makes them annoy­ing, you’ll be able to avoid doing them for yourself.

  • Infographic: Leading Graphic Designers Share Tips On Improving Design Skills

    Smartpress has cre­at­ed an info­graph­ic for graph­ic design­ers who want improve their design­ing skills.

    The info­graph­ic shares advice and tips from 30 over lead­ing design­ers in the online community—it cov­ers ques­tions such as, where can a design­er find inspi­ra­tion from, to how to improve workflow.