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• Friday Links, vol. 104 - Freelance mistakes, how to name files, new design tools, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 103 - Typekit licensing Q&A, The Laws of UX, a conference calendar, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 102 - A social posting tool, design conference tracking, designing your day, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 101 - The math and science of web technology, Tim Ferriss reflects on productivity, and a tool for cold emailing
• Friday Links, vol. 100 - The 100th Link Post! Morning routines of many creatives and Kickstarter's new patron-backing service.
• Friday Links, vol. 99 - Social media kills mental health, an app to remove the "notch", and boosting your home wi-fi.
• Friday Links, vol. 98 - Stats on freelancing, the end of Quipsologies, InVision Studio is on the horizon, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 97 - Keeping your employees satisfied, a better note-taking method, getting started with design, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 96 - A physical time-tracking button, iOS 11, How to operate a consultation call, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 95 - A new Elevation Dock, and the science of workplace distraction.
• Friday Links, vol. 94 - The New Yorker's Podcast Department, stock photos of black folks, new fonts in Typekit, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 93 - Lucy Kellaway becoming a teacher, Freelance Achievement Stickers, UX vs. UI Design, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 92 - Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll, Design Resources for your team, designer/director titles, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 91 - Google Design's new site, behind the scenes with Star Wars, home office zen, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 90 - Nike's new NYC HQ, Slack covers freelancing, good habits are hard to stick, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 89 - Amazon sells Ikea stuff, Julian Assange's office, App Store scammers, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 88 - Adobe buys House Industries, a no-nonsense contract, and how to stay private.
• Friday Links, vol. 87 - NYC ambience, How to Work Less, and Clients: Illustrated
• Friday Links, vol. 86 - Luxury trains, thoughts on design education, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 85 - A new font for Dubai, Song Exploder podcast, and a look inside Juicero
• Friday Links, vol. 84 - Free typefaces, how designers can give back, and profound US maps.
• Friday Links, vol. 83 - Useful web design tools, How Zeldman writes proposals, how to deal with failure according to J.K. Rowling, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 82 - The habits of high-performing firms, setting up a digital workspace, the Upper East Side gets a co-working space, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 81 - The trouble with open-plan offices, how small teams get shit done, and Netflix's thumbs-up/thumbs-down system.
• Friday Links, vol. 80 - US web design standards, planner-wallets, Microsoft Surface Studio, and why we suck at timesheets.
• Friday Links, vol. 79 - Workplace happiness policies, how to be an adult, and how true are movies?
• Friday Links, vol. 78 - Variable-width fonts, clothes hangers, and the distraction of politics.
• Friday Links, vol. 77 - Switch hosts to Flywheel, How to price your services, and the Happiness at Work conference.
• Friday Links, vol. 76 - USB-C gizmos, How leaders should reward effort, three habits of people (and Olympians)
• Friday Links, vol. 75 - FontAwesome in InDesign, The Creative Introvert Podcast, avoiding this $8,000 mistake, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 74 - Celebrity deaths, being productive in terrible times, a detailed goal sheet in Illustrator.
• Friday Links, vol. 73 - How Jason Fried works, updating your website's footer, great product photography, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 72 - MailChimp has tools for designers, Productivity Apps of the Years, and How to Yoga.
• Friday Links, vol. 71 - MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is not that good, How to be productive in a crap environment, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 70 - Avoiding "Time Scarcity," overcoming distracting, and ergonomic essentials for a better workplace.
• Friday Links, vol. 69 - The Mac App Store is full of scams, Flywheel Local to replace MAMP, and how to reject media addiction.
• Friday Links, vol. 68 - How to flee spec work, Todd Henry on email, things to do before 8:00am, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 67 - The Fear of Being Uneeded, a cool vacuum former, Thunderbolt 3 docks, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 66 - The artwork of the US election, improve your InDesign GREP skills, the Habit Calendar, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 65 - How to become an early riser, The New York Times Magazine cover-design process, Ugly UI kit for Sketch, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 64 - Open Serif typeface, interviews with Graphic Designers, how to craft your portfolio, new Aeron chairs, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 63 - Tools and toys of Aaron Dowd, 10 rules for efficient web forms, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 62 - How Karen Marston writes quickly, a better blog layout, Adobe XD in the field, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 61 - Brie Larson's secret love of typography, Adobe Typekit updates, designing a global font, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 60 - Online accounting tools, getting lots of email subscribers, avoiding isolation, and Basecamp's workshop.
• Friday Links, vol. 59 - The new Divi, macOS install disk creator, and Hackintosh info.
• Friday Links, vol. 58 - Ambient noise generators, all the Apple dongles, you should write about your work, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 57 - YouTube Live is now a thing, the case against hourly pay, and the Creative Bullshit-Industrial-Complex.
• Friday Links, vol. 56 - How Jeff Goins wrote 5 books, the new Design Observer design, a free client-area web template, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 55 - Hand-maid fonts, 9 ways to be productive, the benefits of running, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 54 - Landing page insight, 7 ways to fix your podcast (or writing), and daily routines of successful entrepreneurs.
• Friday Links, vol. 53 - Free project management apps, trainable bots, organising your desk, and what to remember when commissioning a photoshoot.
• Friday Links, vol. 52 - Why writers need a website, freelancing tips, changes with Evernote, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 51 - A cool Pomodoro timer for Mac, Doki is almost live, and achieving Feng Shui within your creative team.
• Friday Links, vol. 50 - Send & receive money better than PayPal, the 70% Slump, Pixel Density Demystified, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 49 - Finding love on Twitter, the future of work, Adblocking for iOS, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 48 - Quark is back, the ultimate guide to robots.txt, create a category-specific RSS feed, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 47 - Who pays influencers, awareness apps for Mac, advice on setting up an agency, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 46 - How to get clients, a busy person's guide to work-life balance, the new Instagram identity, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 45 - Booking event spaces, automate Slack with Zapier, work tips for introverts, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 44 - Design systems with CMS, the worst-designed feature in InDesign, why iTunes is still horrible, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 43 - Paul Boag and the iPad, implementing a retainer, why designers should use Terminal, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 42 - Free-to-enter competitions, setting up a forever-business, great open-source fonts, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 41 - From freelancer to entrepreneur, working from home (according to The Onion), snippets for your WordPress blog, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 40 - Quit your crappy job, 5 Photoshop tips for travel photos, five-a-day coffee habit, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 39 - Being a freelancer hiring a freelancer, conference calls in real life, stop wasting time, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 38 - Cultural differences in logo design, Spiekerman on Dribbble (on Medium), creative strength/weaknesses, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 37 - How to win an Oscar, the myth of the neurotic creative, updates to InDesign, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 36 - Designing for AppleTV, ambient sound apps, B&H in trouble with the law, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 35 - Tools for apartments or dorms, Google resizer, creating a 118 GB floppy disk, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 34 - 3 tools/services for your WordPress site, and a collection of productivity-focused tools.
• Friday Links, vol. 33 - Reasons to scrap your website carousel, what to do when your design company fails, the daily habits of creatives: illustrated, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 32 - Molly Young reviews productivity books, Cathryn Lavery attends a Tony Robbins seminar, Marie Poulin answers "why should I hire you?", and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 31 - Hidden Netflix categories, the definition of a Creative Director, and turning home into a co-working space.
• Friday Links, vol. 30 - Tools for modern storytellers, a list of designer-letterers-caligraphers, tiny firewall devices, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 29 - CallRecorder for FaceTime, 7 lessons from Kickstarter campaigns, mistakes of new freelancers, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 28 - Share link generators, three books to change your life, RGB v. CMYK, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 27 - Building a snowman in InDesign, another clipboard manager, and avoiding Death by PowerPoint.
• Friday Links, vol. 26 - Markdown-friendly editors, use your iPad as a second monitor, Disk Utility reborn, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 25 - Routines for creativity, positive work culture, co-working roundups, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 24 - Google is tracking fitness, Graphic Design terms explained, Adele goes undercover, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 23 - How to avoid distraction, how Evato works (from home), what social media does to your brain, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 22 - A report on freelance rates, portable cardboard desks, simple icons, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 21 - Verify & Repair Permissions in El Capitan, a survey on Freelancers, a report on creative work in NYC, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 20 - Illustrator plugins, how Tim Ferriss sleeps, The Work Ethic according to the BBC, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 19 - Googler lives in a truck, Simple icons, devices for screen testing, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 18 - Asana's new identity, Fixing PDF errors in Illustrator, 21st Century opportunities, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 17 - IBM's design-driven culture, London rents mapped, preparing for freelance life, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 16 - The Steve Jobs movie trailer, the secrets of casino design, a speech template, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 15 - A simple web editor, web-based prototyping, an ad-blocker for iOS, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 14 - Tools for designers, personal branding for photographers, we aren't a nation of freelancers, and is September the new January?
• Friday Links, vol. 13 - How to write 1,000 words daily and 40+ top SaaS landing pages analysed.
• Friday Links, vol. 12 - Cat purr generators, remotely test your app, John Lee Dumas's morning routine, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 11 - Finding duplicates on Mac, a funny-looking sit-stand desk, celebrity photo mashups, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 10 - InDesign-to-Office plugins, the Hamburger Menu doesn't work, Stephen Curry's habits, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 9 - Manage projects in Slack, freelance strategy from Marie Poulin, why leaders eat last, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 8 - A simple countdown app, common freelance mistakes, 30 logo fails, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 7 - Archetypal entrepreneurs, Product Hunt Books, good copywriting, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 6 - Becoming a full-stack designer, Cushion is out of beta, calendar hacks, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 5 - Dealing with rejection, designing logos in black-and-white, and creating a folder structure you can rely on.
• Friday Links, vol. 4 - Bare-bones iOS browsers, the word "just", how Disney used to work, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 3 - Tweeting from Terminal, meditation techniques, switch from Photoshop to Sketch, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 2 - Block out distractions, how freelancers disrespect their own time, Jeb Bush's campaign logo, and more.
• Friday Links, vol. 1 - Keynote motion graphics, Getting Things Done podcast, good project management apps, and more.