This handy guide from startupsthisishowdesignworks.com will help you understand design, provide useful tips for startup companies and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.

It answers questions like “What is good design?”

Good design can’t be achieved with glossy buttons or masterful wireframes alone. It’s a merger of all these principles into something that is meaningful and deliberate.

I stumbled across this manifesto the other day on exp.lore.com – it discusses the way that design has changed with new technology. Inspiration is all around us and we now have limitless resources and tools to do any kind of work we’d love to do. Check it out here or on rencontres-arles.com.

If you’re looking for more Manifestos for a creative lifestyle, check out these 5 Manifestos for the Creative Live by Kirstin Butler on brainpickings.org

This is an amazing article from thenextweb.com! A must read for any designer. Apps embedded in paper are making print interactive!

A great little video on “design currency” from GDC!

A list apart’s website has a great article on this new problem with pixels and pixel based screen designs. As if designers didn’t have enough to worry about trying to cater to 500+ screen resolutions and devices, we now have a number of different types of pixels to measure by. Hardware pixel or reference pixel? To find out what the difference is and how to use media queris to fix this – read the full article here: www.alistapart.com/articles/a-pixel-identity-crisis/.
This made me want to scream & pull my hair out – and you may have the same reaction. But keep in mind we live in exciting times with design and technology. We are creating the future of how people will interact. These are obstacles we need to overcome and standards that need to be built for us to move forward