Our favorite tweets of the week: August 18, 2014 — August 242014

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August 24, 2014
Our favorite tweets of the week: August 18, 2014 - August 24, 2014.

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Ways to avoid overwhelming users: lessons learned from my high-school teachers via

Cool series of tributes to different typefaces /​

Quick tutorial via : How to use the Type Mask Tool in Photoshop

Old coders: When programming is a second career via

Integrity comes at a price. And it’s worth it” by : via

A very detailed guide on everything you need to know about favicons, touch icons and tile icons via

Two screenshots that prove Marissa Mayer is fulfilling her promise to make Flickr awesome again via

How to design for the internet of things’ via

Stop making apps! New study shows why you can’t make money off developing anymore

How to Quote Correctly on Client Projects

The evolution of Amazon’s Kindle in one GIF

The Biggest Lesson I Learned as an Apple Designer

Design Details: Foursquare for iOS

Tips for mastering a programming language using spaced repetition via

Building your portfolio: custom website or online service?

A peek into the typographical pod at Medium’s offices

These high school students just created a search engine that may take out Google

TemplateShock: Huge pack of 600 free printing templates (logos, biz cards, posters, menus etc)

Check out these cheat sheets for designers

Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman is a freelance writer and designer from New England. You can visit her site or follow her on Twitter.

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