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• Xero founder Rod Drury steps down as CEO

  04-03-2018 23:58 via zdnet.com
  Rod Drury will remain with the cloud accounting firm as a non-executive director when former Microsoft Australia CEO Steve Vamos takes the reins in April.
  
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• Why Freelance Web Designers May Need that Client from Hell

  04-03-2018 23:40
  “We’ll drill them a new asshole if they won’t do it.”
  Our client wanted us to make some changes to their website. The changes they wanted were reasonable enough, but that wasn’t the problem.
  They didn’t want to pay for it.
  They felt their “history” with us was payment enough and they demanded that we comply. They tried all kinds of tactics to get us to fall in line. Name calling, threats, shaming – you name it.
  Have you ever had a nightmare c
  
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• 25 WordPress Magazine Themes for Online Magazines

  04-03-2018 22:57 via line25.com
  https://line25.com/wordpress-themes/wordpress-magazine-themes
  
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• Google’s Song Maker lets you easily compose music within your browser

  04-03-2018 21:41 via thenextweb.com
  https://thenextweb.com/music/2018/03/02/google-song-maker-lets-you-compose-music-within-the-browser/
  
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• 5 Reasons to Be Counting Your Words

  04-03-2018 21:10 via designshack.net
  https://designshack.net/articles/reviews/5-reasons-to-be-counting-your-words/
  
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• Typography is the new black: Trends in web design

  04-03-2018 20:45 via awwwards.com
  https://www.awwwards.com/typography-is-the-new-black-trends-in-web-design.html
  
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• How To Empower Users To Fight Fake News

  04-03-2018 19:51 via fastcodesign.com
  https://www.fastcodesign.com/90162027/facebooks-wrongheaded-fight-against-fake-news
  
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• How to structure media queries in Sass

  04-03-2018 18:28 via creativebloq.com
  https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/how-to-structure-media-queries-in-sass
  
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• MWC wrap-up, Galaxy S9 Plus in hand, Vivo's cool tech, Pixelbook Pen (MobileTechRoundup show #425)

  04-03-2018 18:12 via zdnet.com
  MWC is now finished and we wrapped up the latest phone announcements. We are returning a gorgeous device and now actively testing new devices.
  
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• 10 Tips for Designing Calls to Action

  04-03-2018 17:47 via inkbotdesign.com
  https://inkbotdesign.com/call-to-action-design/
  
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• Splish - Turn your photos and videos into engaging motion art

  04-03-2018 16:33 via splish.io
  https://splish.io/
  
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• Graphite - Decentralized and encrypted alternative to Google docs

  04-03-2018 15:02 via graphitedocs.com
  https://www.graphitedocs.com/
  
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• Your Interactive Design Makes Me (Literally) Sick

  04-03-2018 14:30 via source.opennews.org
  https://source.opennews.org/articles/motion-sick/
  
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• A New Approach to Color Theory

  04-03-2018 13:27 via v6.robweychert.com
  http://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/02/v6-color/
  
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• Cheaper MacBook Air coming later this year, claims report

  04-03-2018 12:49 via zdnet.com
  Apple could be preparing to refresh its outrageously stagnant MacBook line up with a cheaper MacBook Air landing in Q2.
  
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• Popular Design News of the Week: February 26, 2018 – March 4, 2018

  04-03-2018 11:45 via webdesignerdepot.com
  Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. 
  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.
  Note that this is only a very small sele
  
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• Weekly News for Designers № 426

  04-03-2018 10:41
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  Atomic Bulldog Grid – A CSS Grid layout, with partial fallback to Flexbox.
  10 cheat codes for designing User Interfaces – A list of things learned from experience in UI design.
  Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript – Taking a look at the uniqueness of OOP in JS.
  CSS Puns – Proof that web designers do have a healthy sense of humor.
  Looking at the Most Popular Google Fonts – Surprisingly, no offshoots of Comic Sans made the cut.
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• A Lot Of People Are Surprisingly Good At Drawing Corporate Logos From Memory

  04-03-2018 01:03 via digg.com
  http://digg.com/2018/drawing-logos-from-memory
  
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• Third party CSS is not safe

  04-03-2018 00:10 via jakearchibald.com
  https://jakearchibald.com/2018/third-party-css-is-not-safe/
  
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