Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 8 January 2016

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

• 10 Insights That Will Change the Way You Set (And Achieve) Your Goals in 2016

  At the end of each year 45% of us roll up our sleeves and opti­misti­cal­ly decide what we want to accom­plish in the year to come.

  Yet, year after year, only 8% of us actu­al­ly achieve what we resolved to do on January 1st. In fact, 25% of us don’t make it past the first week!

  So this time around resolve to take a smarter approach to set­ting and achiev­ing your New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. Here are 10 of the best science-backed, battle-tested pieces of advice for mak­ing it into the 8% who achieve their goals in 2016.

  Tags: pro­duc­tiv­i­ty todo gtd

• 12 Social Media Facts and Statistics You Should Know in 2016
  Here are some inter­est­ing facts and sta­tis­tics about the social media land­scape that show where we are today and where we might even­tu­al­ly end up dur­ing 2016.Tags: socialmedia
• Subject Line Spam Trigger Words
  In 2015, email sub­ject lines are just one part of the email deliv­ery equa­tion. Emails are deliv­ered to inbox­es based on sub­ject lines, con­tent, and rep­u­ta­tion. In some cas­es, engage­ment is even applied to this filter.
• Never Splice a Comma Again
  A com­ma splice hap­pens when a com­ma incor­rect­ly joins (or splices) two inde­pen­dent claus­es. An inde­pen­dent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a com­plete sentence.Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• Ask a Lawyer Responds: Are Email Disclaimers Meaningless?

  So, no, there’s not real­ly legal weight to these things. But receiv­ing some­thing by mis­take doesn’t give you full license to act with wild aban­don­ment and unsa­vori­ness. Unless it’s plans for a ful­ly func­tion­ing time trav­el machine. In that case, go forth and change history.

• The Extra Mile is Never Crowded
  This applies to so many parts of life, both big and small, per­son­al and busi­ness, and for the rich and the poor.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance Design
• Famous Typefaces Rearranged Into Amusing Portraits, Reveal Their Personalities
  “Grumpy Garamond becomes a sulky customer.” 

  Typefaces have unique per­son­al­i­ties, and are often imag­ined as people.

  Edinburgh-based art…

• 25 Ugly Websites That Make You Want to Cry
  Sometimes web­sites are just so darn ugly. You have to won­der what they were think­ing about when they slapped it togeth­er. However, if you want users to take anTags: Design inspiration
• 6 Awesome Places To Find Free InDesign Templates
  How about using a professional-quality InDesign tem­plate instead of mak­ing your own? This arti­cle dis­cuss­es the best free tem­plate sites on the web.Tags: InDesign design
• The easy way to add emo­jis to every­thing on your Mac
  In Apple’s Messages app, you can eas­i­ly add emo­jis with a quick click on the lit­tle hap­py face icon in the iMessage text field. If you use a chat app like
• How Dangerous Is Airplane Turbulence?
  It’s scary. It’s uncom­fort­able. It spills your toma­to juice. It’s turbulence—but how dan­ger­ous is it, actually?
• Android’s design guru says iPhone inter­face is ‘heavy and burdensome’
  Damn that easy-to-use grid of apps! Photo: Apple The arrival of the orig­i­nal iPhone may have fun­da­men­tal­ly changed Google’s plans for its Android smartphonTags: UI ux
• 5 Sites That Make Any Text Look Interesting
  Make text look fun. You don’t need to be an artist as these easy web tools make bor­ing text look down­right fascinating.
• Leadership Lessons from 10 Wildly Successful People
  Andre Agassi, Goldie Hawn, Salman Rushdie, and more. Each year, HBR asks 10 stars in fields out­side busi­ness — whether it’s pol­i­tics, sports, the arts, or com­pet­i­tive chess —to offer wis­dom on top­ics of inter­est to our read­ers. Here are the high­lights from the class of 2015:

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Startup

• Online Ad Revenue Experiences Unprecedented Growth
  Digital pub­lish­ers and plat­forms see online ad rev­enue sky­rock­et; plus, new online video dis­tri­b­u­tion deal for Time Inc. & new web­sites for Newsweek and IBTTags: adblockalypse
• Google’s Matias Duarte on the future of soft­ware design (Wired UK)
  Computers of the future will fade away into the back­ground, cre­at­ing a “con­tin­u­ous mesh of devices and interfaces“Tags: UI ux
• Editorial: Wikipedia fails as an ency­clo­pe­dia, to science’s detri­ment | Ars Technica
  Ever look up an obscure sci­en­tif­ic top­ic? Who is that infor­ma­tion meant for?
• Use Three Words Instead of Resolutions for a Successful Year
  I find that when I focus on three tar­get words, I have a more ful­fill­ing and suc­cess­ful work and home life.Tags: Entrepreneur free­lancer leadership
• How to Organize Any Project with a Work Breakdown Structure
  A jour­ney of a thou­sand miles begins with a sin­gle step. Every com­plex project con­sists of mul­ti­ple com­po­nents. The Work Breakdown Structure can help you iden­ti­fy all the steps and put them into sequence.Tags: Productivity free­lance leadership
• Trick: Erase Stubble in Seconds with Photoshop’s Dust and Scratch Tool
  Here’s a short and sim­ple 45-second video tuto­r­i­al by UK glam­our pho­tog­ra­ph­er Markp, who shows a trick for quick­ly remov­ing a patch of stub­ble from a por­trait in just a few sec­onds. Instead of doing pre­cise edit­ing, you can select the area, set Feather to a suit­able num­ber, and then run Filter->Noise->Dust & Scratches. With a cor­rect Radiusand Threshold set­ting, the stub­ble dis­ap­pears from the skin.

  Tags: Photoshop Photography

• I’m Russell Brown, Principal Designer at Adobe, and This Is How I Work

  Russell Brown is a 30-year vet­er­an of the com­pa­ny, hav­ing joined in 1985, and has con­tributed to the direc­tion and design of every ver­sion of Photoshop ever released. He’s also an Emmy-award win­ning instruc­tor who teach­es design with a cer­tain the­atri­cal flare. As you might imag­ine, after three decades with the com­pa­ny Russell isn’t in the weeds with the code, but works more as an evan­ge­list for Adobe’s cre­ative suite when he’s not guid­ing the evo­lu­tion of the soft­ware. We spoke with Russell to learn a lit­tle about how he works.

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