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Telecommuting is finally getting some respect. What was once an obscure work arrangement confined to a small number of jobs is now considered "the new normal" and an important factor for many job seekers. Since 2005, regular telecommuting has increased by 173 percent. And since the onset of COVID-19, telecommuting has become a necessity, helping...

Let's be honest: software development has not always been the most worker-friendly world. Historically, crunch times made super-human demands on developers. This frequently resulted in highly-disgruntled employees, and ultimately led many developers to unionize against crunch culture. What's more, the end-products of this culture were - unsurprisingly - not always optimal. Thankfully, today's forward-thinking development … continue reading The post It pays to be a softie in software dev appeared first on SD Times.

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Minimizing the time you spend on processing and enhancing photos is one of the things most photographers and graphic designers often struggle with. Adobe Lightroom, coupled with a set of professional Lightroom presets, makes this whole process much easier. What if we told you that you can make Lightroom even more powerful to process images, […]

You can never have too many fonts in your collection! As a professional designer, you need to expand your design collection to include various graphic elements that can be used in your projects or as inspiration. High-quality freebies are hard to come by, therefore, when you find them, make sure to download and add them to […] The post 20 Decorative Typefaces Worth Downloading appeared first on Line25.

This week's Designer News (No 513) includes Replacing Font Awesome with Line Awesome, Adobe Photoshop Camera, Lesser Known Coding Fonts, Things We Can't (Yet) Do In CSS, Uncommon Use Cases For Pseudo Elements, Designing the Facebook Company Brand, Easy Peasy Password and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 513 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

If you ever delved into Flexbox as an alternative to the classic CSS box model, you probably don’t want to go back. The hitch is, that you need to deal with it in-depth, and who has enough time for that these days. Thus, we’re often stuck with old methods of getting things done, just because we know how to reach the goal using them. Let’s change that. Today, I’ll show you the project Flexbox Patterns as a quick introduction to Flexbox. Flexbox: Diving Deeper If you have the time, make sure to watch the free video tutorial on which I reported for the colleagues at t3n here. You’ll receive 160 minutes of essential knowledge. Flexbox Patterns: Landing Page We’ve already talked about Flexbox at Noupe here. In the article, we covered the topic of creating a responsive comment section with Flexbox. Flexbox Patterns Thankfully, the interface designer CJ Cenizal has also looked into Flexbox and started a collection of ready-to-use best practices on the website Flexbox Patterns. At the moment, there are only about a dozen of finished modules available. However, the project has just started out, and the available modules already cover the most important application cases. Example: Alternating […]

2020 has introduced many of us to the idea of working from home. While it's absolutely not for everyone, this extended period of remote working has got the gears turning in some people's heads. They're considering doing this full time, or perhaps even starting their own business they can run from home. Home businesses are...

Logo design is a massive industry, especially among freelancers. In fact, some of the biggest freelancing platforms such as Fiverr became widely popular for their massive number of logo designers on the platform. There’s lots of mixed opinion about the quality and standard you’ll see when using a marketplace like this though. You’re often better […]