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"The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Alberto Cairo: Aug 28, 2012; Underneath the packaging, an infographic serves a very simple purpose—to educate. Alberto Cairo, professor of information graphics and visualization at the University of Miami and author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, talks about the importance of making infographics work on an instructional level.

10 Practical Logo Design Tips: Oct 14, 2014; David Airey, author of Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, shares ten tips that will help you think about how to design better logos.

5 Tips for Building a Killer Portfolio: Mar 5, 2016; Denise Anderson, author of Stand Out: Design a personal brand. Build a killer portfolio. Find a great design job., shares expert insights on building a book of work that represents the style, type, and industry-specific work you want to do.

A Confederacy of Truth-Tellers: The Bright (But Challenging) Future of Small or Independent Visualization Teams: Aug 27, 2013; Big media is fading and, with it, the way in which society has traditionally informed itself about relevant issues. Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, discusses whether a new generation of small, creative, candid, and committed teams of visual communicators will become effective watchdogs for our future.

A Peek at Lightroom 3: Watermarking: Dec 18, 2009; In Part 4 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the new Watermarking features in Lightroom which, while only partially complete, allow you to embed graphical watermarks created in Photoshop or create text-based watermarks directly in Lightroom.

A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator (2022 Release): By Brian Wood; May 18, 2022; An introduction to basic drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator, from creating a new document to drawing shapes, applying color, and working with type and brush strokes.

A Roadmap for Creating an Effective Content Strategy: Jul 22, 2015; Brain Traffic content strategist Meghan Casey, author of The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right, talks about the content strategy framework that just might save your next website redesign project.

Add Dynamic Time and Date Stamps in GoLive 6: Apr 19, 2002; In this project, Paul Vachier, author of GoLive 6 Magic, shows you how to utilize two of GoLive 6's new actions to place customized time and date stamps on your web pages.

Adding special effects in Lightroom Classic: By Scott Kelby; May 18, 2022; Scott Kelby shows you how to apply special effects to your photography using Adobe Lightroom Classic. Choose from presets, add vignettes, sun flares, and spotlights, or create a panorama or HDR with your color or black-and-white images.

Adding Transitions with Adobe Premiere Pro: By Maxim Jago; Apr 17, 2024; Author Maxim Jago shows readers a glimpse into the art of using transitions in video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop and Mobile Applications: By Joseph Labrecque; Oct 25, 2022; Joseph Labrecque covers the basics of using Adobe Creative Cloud, including navigating the Desktop application, managing software versions, and accessing mobile apps and Creative Cloud Libraries.

Advanced Motion Tweening: By Russell Chun; Jul 21, 2021; The advanced Motion Editor in Adobe Animate can help you create complicated animations with motion tweens. Learn to edit property curves, apply ease curves, and produce realistic motion with this sample chapter from Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release).

Advanced Motion Tweening with Adobe Animate: By Russell Chun; Mar 10, 2020; Learn how to use the Motion Editor in Adobe Animate to edit property and ease curves and create more realistic motion.

An Interview with Jesse James Garrett: Dec 21, 2010; Russ Unger interviews Jesse James Garrett about the new edition of The Elements of User Experience, what's changed since the first edition was released in 2002, why client work is still important to him, and the relationship between UX and the video game industry.

An Introduction to MySQL: Jan 24, 2018; See how to define a simple table using MySQL’s allowed data types and other properties and learn how to interact with the MySQL server using two different client applications.

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Steve Krug on Why Users Like Mindless Choices: Jan 27, 2014; We face choices all the time on the Web. Steve Krug explains that making those choices mindless is one of the most important things you can do to make a site easy to use.

Animating Shapes with Shape Tweens in Adobe Flash Professional CC (2014 release): Jul 18, 2014; You’ll start the lesson by viewing the animated logo that you’ll create as you learn about shape tweens and masks in Flash, in this chapter from Adobe Flash Professional CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release).

Animating Symbols in Adobe Flash Professional CC (2014 release): Sep 29, 2014; In this excerpt from Adobe Flash Professional CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release), learn how to use Flash Professional to change almost any aspect of an object—position, color, transparency, size, rotation, and more—over time. Motion tweening is the basic technique of creating animation with symbol instances.

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