Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 9 February 2017

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

• LinkedIn reveals the 10 most overused mar­ket­ing buzz­words on CVs and profiles
• How Should Brands Adapt to a Post-Truth World?
• The Unexpected Drawbacks To Positive Thinking
• Why Slack, Chatbots, And Freelance Workers Have Your IT Department Freaking Out
• Social Innovation: Now More Than Ever
• 9 Ways to Master the Art of the Conference Call
• Monty Python is the rea­son we call junk e‑mail ‘spam’
• 6 Best Cocktails From Classic Literature
• Super Bowl 51 Commercials Compilation 2017 – YouTube
• How Sesame Street Explains The Toughest Parts Of Life
• Get noticed: 6 tips for get­ting your port­fo­lio seen
• 300 Years of Type Faces, Fonts, and the People Behind Them
• Turn pho­tos into 3D ani­ma­tions with Photoshop
• This GitHub Page Lists Non-JS Alternatives for Common UI Features
• How to take your vec­tor logo from 2D to 3D
• Programmer hacks Amazon Dash Button to give $5 to the ACLU when­ev­er he wants
  In what feels like the first good use for an Amazon Dash Button, a pro­gram­mer hacked his but­ton to donate $5 to the ACLU when­ev­er he wishes.
• Why This Fashion Designer Is Teaching Girls To Have A Strong Voice
• If You Purchased a PC With a DVD Drive Between 2003 and 2008, You Might Be Eligible for $10
  The class action suit start­ed sev­en years ago when Sony, NEX, Panasonic, and Hitachi were accused of col­lud­ing to inflate prices of opti­cal dri­ves. Now, if you pur­chased a com­put­er dur­ing those dates, you’re eli­gi­ble for some free mon­ey, but there is a catch.
• You’re Going to Die, Here’s How to Deal With It
• This Is Why You Don’t Need Adobe Reader
• Illustrator CC Typography Course (includ­ing Asian and Indic typography!)
• A New World Order For Media?
• LITERALLY, the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog – GIF on Img
• 6 tips for bet­ter side projects | Creative Bloq
• Why You Need Disagreements When Working on a Team
• Greedo – Who in the Galaxy is That?
  He is at the cen­ter of history’s most con­tro­ver­sial Star Wars moment. He was beat up by Anakin Skywalker. He is a leg­endary fail­ure. He is Greedo the Young.
• 4 ways tech­nol­o­gy is neg­a­tive­ly impact­ing on humanity
• 6 tips for suc­cess­ful­ly upskilling as a designer
• How “Key Convincer Phrases” can land you the gig every time
• 19 Google Apps Scripts for Pro Gmail Users
• How to Crop an Image in Photoshop
• Photoshop anato­my: the Refine Edge box tool explained
• Ad block­er usage is up 30% — and a pop­u­lar method pub­lish­ers use to thwart it isn’t working
• This brows­er game takes you through the mad­ness of found­ing your own startup
• 99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts
  I romanced every free font resource, sam­pled every heart-shaped box of choco­latey type treats, and arranged this bou­quet of 99 ways to type “I love you.”
• 6 Illustrations That Show What It’s Like in an Introvert’s Head
• Check the Political Bias of Any Media Site in This Massive Database
• This Short History Of Comic Sans Will Make You Love Comic Sans
• How to keep a scope-creeping client in check
• 50 Great Free Handwriting Fonts
• 10 New Rules For Brainstorming Without Alienating Introverts
• The pro’s guide to UI design
• 12 cities that are start­ing to go car-free
• A 24-year-old made $345,000 by beat­ing Kickstarters to market
• How to Fill Text Using an Image in Photoshop
• How I’ve Learned To Poacher-Proof My Company’s Workforce
• The Google Font Improvement Project
• 10 ways cre­ative types get inspi­ra­tion – a client’s view
  Along the way I did get good at empathis­ing with both sides of the client/agency void. Helping steer teams through the process and so I like to think I vague­ly under­stand the broad term “cre­ative” from an exter­nal point of view at least.
• Is The Era Of The Iconic Super Bowl Ad Over? | Fast Company
• Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks (ePublishing with InDesign Series) #eprd­ctn by Pariah Burke
  ePub­lish­ing with InDesign: Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks will teach you:

  - Understanding Fixed-Layout eBooks
  – Planning a Fixed-Layout eBook
  – Creating Fixed-Layout in InDesign
  – Adapting the HTML
  – Editing the CSS
  – Adding Advanced Features
  – Creating Read Aloud Narration
  – Creating Fixed-Layout for Kindle
  – Converting Fixed-Layout for Nook
  – Creating Fixed-Layout for Sony Reader
  – Creating Fixed-Layout for Kobo
  – Other Fixed-Layout Creation Tools

• 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.
• In His Mind, Billy Dee Williams Is Always Lando
• Nazi Sub Portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark Discovered in the North Atlantic
• 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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• Please Stop Remaking The Wizard of Oz
• Wedge Antilles – Who in the Galaxy is That? – Jedinet
  The tem­plate for Poe Dameron. The galaxy’s great­est bud­dy. The galaxy’s great­est fight­er ace. Rogue Leader. Commando. The only Rebel pilot to fly against and sur­vive both Death Stars.
• 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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• You’ve Been Wrong About Where the Death Star Trench Was for Your Entire Life
  Instead, as Vaziri points out, the trench runs per­pen­dic­u­lar to the equa­tor, which every­one would know if we’d all just paid atten­tion to General Jan Dodonna’s brief­ing to the Rebel pilots where it is clear­ly shown:
• If You Use Facebook Messenger, Prepare to Start Seeing Ads
• 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?
• Fox’s X‑Men TV Series Gets Official Pilot Order – CBR
• The Brain Scrambles Names Of People You Love
• Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
• Managing a Team That’s Been Asked to Do Too Much
• Rocking out to The Winery Dogs, a super­group fea­tur­ing Billie Sheehan and Richie Kotzen
• Who in the Galaxy is That? – Talon Karrde
  He is who would Han Solo would be if not for Chewbacca, Luke, and Leia. Owner of a fleet of red Star Destroyers. Sometime ally of the New Republic. A smuggler-king who plays all sides.
• Qui-Gon Jinn – Who in the Galaxy is That? – Jedinet
  The orig­i­nal bad boy Jedi. A mav­er­ick Jedi Master indi­rect­ly respon­si­ble for Luke Skywalker ris­ing above the clois­tered fol­ly of the old Jedi Order. He has a rich his­to­ry despite appear­ing, and dying, in only a sin­gle film.
• 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
• Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time – The Economist
• 8 free apps for pick­ing a colour scheme |
• 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

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