General
The folks at Mercury Intermedia have released their iOS 9.3 UI kit in Adobe Illustrator vector format. It is the most complete and up to date iOS UI Kit released to date. Unlike many UI kits created in raster image format (typically PSDs), this one is so much more flexible because all the items are full vectors—making them perfect for mockups.
Read more “Free iOS 9.3 iPhone UI Kit for Illustrator in vector format”
Apple | Mac
If you’re ready to update to the latest El Capitan release, but hate amount of time it takes to download via the Mac App Store—and the fact that you don’t have an installer left behind to use on other Macs—then what you want are one of these two installers from Apple.
Read more “Get your OS X 10.11.4 Combo & Delta updaters here”
General
Blockhead, fixes something that drives me up the wall about Apple’s iDevice and Macbook chargers—they LITERALLY stick out like a sore thumb. Blockhead ($20 or two for $35, from Ten 1 Design) is the charger/adapter Apple should have designed to begin with.
Apple | Mac
If you like having new screensaver on your Mac, grab this Apple Watch screensaver from Rasmus Nielsen.
Read more “Apple Watch screensaver for OS X”
General
CareerBuilder recently surveyed 2,298 U.S. hiring managers and human resources professionals and asked what would make them automatically dismiss a candidate from consideration. Here are some of the biggest resume mistakes they communicated.
• Resumes that don’t include a list of skills – 30 percent
• Resumes printed on decorative paper – 20 percent
• Resumes that detail more tasks than results – 16 percent
• Resumes that include a photo – 13 percent
• Resumes that have large blocks of text with little white space – 13 percent
Adobe InDesign
When you’re working in a full color document in Adobe InDesign, you may occasionally want to see how the image looks in grayscale rather than full color. Normally this would require you to convert the image to grayscale in your favorite image editor. But you can quickly get an idea of how it will look without even leaving InDesign.
Read more “Quickly preview your color images in grayscale without leaving InDesign”
General
Read more “A special hell for designers like me”My tiny exaggerations were about to become a dangerous contribution to a lie that ended up permanently injuring people.
General
Following up on last week’s post about social media image specs, here are 8 more tips for sharing photos on Facebook.
Read more “8 tips for photo sharing on Facebook”
Resources
If part of your design job is providing your company/client with images for social media use, you know how tedious it can be to keep up with what image sizes to use for what purpose on which site.
Thankfully, we have Advise.
Read more “The ultimate social media spec sheet”
Apple | Mac
Years ago I used to have an app that showed the weather in my designated cities in the menubar. It wasn’t overloaded with features, it was free, and it worked great. Then it stopped working, and users gave up waiting for updates.
Years went by without a peep from the developer, until…
Read more “Weather in the Mac’s menubar: Welcome back, old friend”
Adobe InDesign
InDesign offers the ability to outline your fonts before output, much the same way as Illustrator. Outlining the fonts (sometimes known as converting to paths) prevents the potential for missing font errors and a host of other issues. But it’s not without a catch.