Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 27 September 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Does FB Sell Books & Do Writers Need a Facebook Fan Page? Wattpad – Community …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 24 August 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Is ‘mobile first’ lim­it­ing the poten­tial of inter­ac­tive sto­ry­telling? Identify Fonts in …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 20 July 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly A Manifesto Against ‘Parenting’ – WSJ 9 …

Truly Muting Email Conversations in Gmail

Gmail (and Mail in Google Apps for Business) offers the abil­i­ty to mute con­ver­sa­tions and keep them out of your way… But only if they’re cer­tain types of con­ver­sa­tions. The mute func­tion fails to work on arguably the most annoy­ing of con­ver­sa­tions. Here’s a way to fix it so that mute actu­al­ly mutes any thread.

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 16 February 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Facebook the Colonial Empire – The Atlantic Today’s empires are born on …

Everyday Automation: Changing the Case of Text Within Code List Items

Learn how to quick­ly change case or oth­er trans­for­ma­tions on parts of code list items with­out touch­ing the oth­er parts. The exam­ple in this tuto­r­i­al con­verts coun­try names—both instances of each coun­try name in 202 list items in either the HTML or JavaScript versions—from ALL CAPS to Title Case with­out alter­ing the case of the sur­round­ing code. Doing that by hand, retyp­ing each one, would be labor inten­sive and error prone. It’s a bad idea. Instead, there’s a much eas­i­er, semi-automated way to make the change. To do that, each item must be expand­ed into its sta­t­ic and vari­able components.