Job Opportunities & Resources

• Identity Marketing & Public Relations of Bingham Farms, Michigan, is looking for an account assistant with 1-2 years of experience. They must be able to write, communicate, juggle, and relate publicly. For more information, contact them via Twitter @identitypr.
• Capsule, a brand experience design firm in Minneapolis, is seeking two design interns for the next three months. Visit their website or find them on Twitter @capsuledesign for more information.
• What Do Hiring Managers Really Want to Know?: How Design and The Creative Group share common interview questions for creative professionals as well as hints about what hiring managers are really asking.
• Nine Ways to Research Prospective Employers: BusinessWeek shares nine ways to learn about your next prospective employer so you will be able to make better decisions about the company’s culture and ask better questions during the interview process.

Upcoming Events

• GLEQ Entrepreneurial Events: The Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest (GLEQ) has a ton of great events in Michigan throughout November, from conferences to educational opportunities to networking events.
• An Event Apart’s 2010 Conference Series: An Event Apart will be hosting several conferences with HTML5/CSS3 workshops in 2010 in Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, Washington DC, and San Diego. Early ticket purchase is now available.

Recommended Reading

• On Being Passionate: John Phillips of Tridea Design shares some quick thoughts on how important it is to have passion in your life and work.
• The Way I Work: Inc. sat down with Jason Fried of 37Signals for a peek inside his typical workday and insights into his management style and work philosophy.
• There’s No Such Thing as a B-Team: David Skokna, Global Creative Director of interactive agency HUGE, talks with 99% about the culture of collaboration and why setting deadlines is so important.

Publishing Industry

• Columnist Quits After Newsday Starts Charging for Its Web Site: Saul Friedman, a freelance journalist who wrote for Newsday for more than 20 years, quit his job after the site began charging for access. Friedman called his decision an end to more than 50 years in newspapers, saying, “My column has been popular around the country, but now it was really going to be impossible for people outside Long Island to read it.”

Tools & Resources

• 6 Ways To Take Your Web Design From Good To Great: MyInkBlog examines well-designed websites to show some of the small details that make the difference between good and great web design, such as white space, designing on a grid, and utilizing typography.
• Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients: David Sherwin, Senior Interaction Designer for frog design, shares a cheat sheet to help pitch UX research using plain, client-friendly language that focuses on the business value of each exercise, as well as how to communicate the value of UX research with kindness, grace, and wit.
• 5 Fresh & Innovative Collaboration Platforms For The Creative Community: Inspired Magazine shares five of the newest and most effective social outlets that help designers, web artists, and other creative people find new collaborations, such as Haystack and Design Taxi.
• Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices: By keeping clients informed of your expectations, you will be paid on time and reinforce your professionalism. To help, Smashing Magazine shares some best practices for creating invoices and reviews of some of the online invoicing tools available.
• The ‘Hows’ of Pricing Your Design Work: Brian Hoff of The Design Cubicle shares 10 factors to consider when pricing a project and your design services, such as how much experience you have and how much time the project will take.

Inspiration

• 30 Conversations on Design: Thirty of the world’s most inspired creative professionals — architects, designers, authors, and leaders of iconic brands — were asked two questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?”

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