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Friday Links, vol. 13

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • CloudPull, Seamlessly Backs Up Your Google Account to Your Mac
  • Ulysses III is a sleek and minimal writing app (in case you’re still using MS Word
  • Where We Are Today with UX Prototyping Software by Khoi Vinh

Techniques

  • Your Design Team Needs A War Room. Here’s How To Set One Up
  • How to charge late fees
  • Google has re-designed their brand identity (HOLY SHIT!). Here’s the case study for how they did it.

Habits

  • How to write 1,000 words every day around a 9-5 job

Everything Else

  • 40+ Top SaaS landing Pages analysed
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Friday Links, vol. 10

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • ID2Office, the InDesign plugin that allows export to MS Word and Powerpoint format, has updated to a new version for CC 2015.
  • Grab some type samples from The Designer’s Foundry

Techniques

  • Create dynamic pull quotes in InDesign using tables (really!)
  • The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work
  • Listen to video games soundtracks while you work; they’re designed to maintain focus, eliminate distraction. As discussed on Reddit

Habits

  • What Stephen Curry Can Teach Us About Creating Successful Habits
  • Self-Discipline: what it is and why we are bad at it

Everything Else

  • A Visual History of the iTunes Application Icon.
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A Common Mistake in Growing Your Business

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Common Mistake

When we first start out in business, we want to do as much work as we can. Each new project is a new chance to build an ongoing relationship, to add something to the portfolio, and of course to collect the associated fees. But many creative pros make the mistake of taking on too much work too fast.

Taking every project can lead to numerous problems. Studios may get known for doing a certain types of projects they never intended to focus on. Attention may be divided, resulting in sub-standard work. It may prove harder than expected to bring on the right staff, whether freelance or full-time. Problems abound.

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Is Microsoft Office for iPad a useful tool? Or too little too late?

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Office for iPad

Microsoft Office for iPad

Microsoft has released their popular Office suite of applications for the iPad, a sloppy four years after the launch of the popular tablet. Many users have been waiting since day 1 for basic Office capabilities, even if only to read documents on the go.

As an iPad owner, this means absolutely nothing to me.

I avoid Office as much as I can and as I type this, I don’t actually have it installed on this computer. Instead, I type in basic formatted text using Bean, use Numbers to track my household spending, and create presentations as simple PDF files, usually from InDesign. […] Full post →

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