Our favorite tweets of 2014: July 1 – December 31

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January 04, 2015
Our favorite tweets of 2014: July 1 – December 31.
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. In case you’ve missed some of our tweets from the past year, here’s a list of the best or most interesting tweet from each week. Last week we covered the first half of the year, so below we've covered the second half. To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Interesting via @TheAtlantic: How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen http://theatln.tc/1mjeGq4 From The Samuel L. Jackson Hack to the Burrito Principle: 12 memorable ideas to improve your marketing http://bit.ly/1otk9bW A very insightful post by @jessicahische on her productivity quest and productivity blocks http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughtsonscheduling via @smashingmag How To Be The Next Great Designer-Founder http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033468/how-to-be-the-next-great-designer-founder You are going to love this little hack for keeping your notebook organized http://bit.ly/1mJKReY via @iconfinder TemplateShock: Huge pack of 600 free printing templates (logos, biz cards, posters, menus etc) http://templateshock.com Rad! RT @smashingmag: This has got to be one of the best domains ever reserved: …http://www.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.com — Attention: addictive 10 paradoxical traits of creative people http://bit.ly/18lPPaT Coolness from Colossal @colossal: Artist Kevin Weir Creates Ghostly Animated GIFs Using Archival Photos http://bit.ly/1uioLXu Underwater Life: a Low-Poly illustration research http://www.underwaterlife.me Qhuery: A 3600 Media Query Colour Picker http://qhuery.com/ 10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products http://speckyboy.com/2014/10/01/successful-minimum-viable-products/ via @speckyboy Sit the Test -> take tests that prove your skills as a developer http://bit.ly/110aDYk Design Agency Homepage is a live feed of the office http://bit.ly/1b1VB8t Fabric, Twitter’s new platform for mobile devs http://bit.ly/1xcP68X Check out http://froont.com/ – it’s made for visually designing responsive websites Workfrom: Find the best spaces to work from http://bit.ly/1tHRiq6 Why You Should Be Using Mood Boards In Your Design Process http://bit.ly/1xf8qGd /@yummygum A very neat roundup of 100 marketing blogs and their most popular articles http://bit.ly/1t8uw5t Design inspiration: 30 personal websites of musicians and performers http://bit.ly/1ygXebc Mailchimp’s voice and tone study http://bit.ly/JenrSA Wireless in Gaza: the young entrepreneurs beating the blockades http://bit.ly/1ytABSi The Everything Book—reading in the age of Amazon http://bit.ly/1sA9dv1 via @verge

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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