January 2016 | Stay hungry, stay creative
Just in time for eNPS: Perks crush creativity, so you can officially stop asking AT&T for free coffee in your survey this year. Office perks — like free food and drinks, foosball tables, comfy lounge furniture, laundry service, nap pods, and more — make our work lives too cushy, and when our lives are too cushy, our creativity diminishes. I posit that we’re such a top notch creative team because we don’t work for one of those companies offering perks. Do you guys have nap pods in Atlanta? If so, color me officially jealous.
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JUST SAY NO TO BEAN BAG CHAIRS
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EDITORIAL DESIGN PRO TIPS
A step-by-step guide to creating visual hierarchy with text size and width.
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CURBING THAT PESKY BLUE LIGHT
Want to scroll to your heart’s content late into the night? If you’ve been thinking of investing in a pair of blue-light blocking glasses, don’t click the buy button just yet. iOS 9.3 is introducing new technology that warms up the colors on your Apple screens based on the sunset spectrum to better simulate light we normally see at night (fire, candles, setting sun, the soft flicker of romantic comedies, the manic flicker of action movies…).
To get better at UX, steal these 9 design secrets. (I succumb to #5 every time.)
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ALL GREAT ARTISTS STEAL
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SIR MIX-A-LOT’S OLD PHONE NUMBER
What’s it like to have a famous rapper’s former phone number? You get some interesting texts.