[What I'm Reading] The back to work edition
I started back to work today after basically a month off if you count holiday break and paternity leave after my wife and I welcomed Angelo (opens new window) into our lives. The time gave me some space to relax, re-evaluate and catch up on things, a great refresher. It also gave me the opportunity to read, below are some articles that I found particularly interesting.
# Analytics
- College Web Editor - Why #highered should get excited about Universal Analytics & Google Tag Manager (opens new window)
- Here Comes Universal Analytics (opens new window)
- Higher Ed Analytics - Google Analytics A/B Test Worksheet for #highered: Fill in the Blanks to Optimize Your College?s Web Pages (opens new window)
# Design
- 20 Web Designs That Look Like Animated Infographics (opens new window)
- A Guide to Social Logins (opens new window)
- The experience is the product (opens new window)
- The Pattern Library: A Great New Resource For Designers (And Wannabes) (opens new window)
- Amount of snow to cancel school (opens new window)
# Food
# Freelance
- Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Making Time for Side Projects (opens new window)
- Five Career Mistakes You Might Not Know You're Making (opens new window)
Great Offices
- New Feature: Collections – Browse Offices by Room (opens new window)
- Inside BFG Communications’ Skate Park-themed Office (opens new window)
# Highered
- 6 Technologies Will Change Colleges in Coming Years, Experts Say (opens new window)
- mStoner blog - Forks in the Road (opens new window)
- CKSyme.com - The Ultimate Social Media Engagement Tool: Free Tuition (opens new window)
- 5 proven, mind-blowing ways to get people to read your blog (opens new window)
- British University to Accept Bitcoin as Payment for Some Courses (opens new window)
- 3 branding game-changers and how #highered must adapt (opens new window)
# Inspiration
- Why You Can Never Finish Anything And How to Finally Change It (opens new window)
- I Became an Entity: How I'm on the Knowledge Graph (opens new window)
- See All The Spots From Super Bowl XLVIII (opens new window)
- Release quality sets expectations (opens new window)
- Lessons learned from my first semester of teaching (opens new window)
- Stamping Dollar Bills With Evidence That They've Been Used For Good (opens new window)
- 4 Soft Skills That You Need To Learn (opens new window)
- The person you could be hiring (opens new window)
- [The answer to, "is that the best you can do..."](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/01/the-answer-to-is-that-the-best-you-can-do.html "The answer to, "is that the best you can do..."")
- Shipping as a beginning, not an end (opens new window)
- “The problem is that we don’t have the right words to talk about this stuff.” (opens new window)
- Six Life Lessons I've Learned from Programming (opens new window)
- Giving Back: Preservation Detroit (opens new window)
- I Suck! And So Do You! (opens new window)
- ["But what if I fail?"](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/01/but-what-if-i-fail.html ""But what if I fail?"")
# Leadership
- 5 Steps to Reclaim Your Credibility After You Screw Up (opens new window)
- 8 Awesome Business & Entrepreneurial Podcasts (opens new window)
- Susan Talbert Evans Blog - Ready to Roll: Expanding your team. (opens new window)
- [Employ the "Rule Of 3" for Daily, Weekly and Annual Productivity](http://lifehacker.com/employ-the-rule-of-3-for-daily-weekly-and-annual-pro-1513751381 "Employ the "Rule Of 3" for Daily, Weekly and Annual Productivity")
- Why Coaching Matters (opens new window)
- Incorporate a Daily Prioritization Meeting into Your Morning Routine (opens new window)
- Conference call hygiene (opens new window)
- The Neuroscience Of Effective Leadership (opens new window)
- How To Combat A Ridiculous Work Schedule And Stop Feeling So Overwhelmed (opens new window)
- 5 Crucial Strategies For Making 2014 Your Most Innovative Year Yet (opens new window)
- Everyone does everything (opens new window)
- Conference organiser tips (from a speaker's perspective) (opens new window)
# Mobile
- Three Steps for Improving Mobile UX (opens new window)
- Sprint Unveils Free Cloud Storage Service (opens new window)
- Opinion- There Is No Mobile Internet (opens new window)
- The Mobile Content Mandate (opens new window)
- The Mobile Moment (opens new window)
Parenting
- The 4-Day Wait Rule Finds Food Your Baby is Allergic to (opens new window)
- Kickstarter Loves This Children's Book That Gets Kids Excited About Coding (opens new window)
# Social Media
# Startup
- Do you love your customers? (opens new window)
- Why We Bootstrapped Our Company (opens new window)
- A (Nearly) Complete Online Toolkit For Startups (opens new window)
# User Interface
- Contact from Dashag – UI Design Pattern (opens new window)
- 404 page from Mint – UI Design Pattern (opens new window)
- Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report | Wired Design | Wired.com (opens new window)
# User Experience
- Preference and Desirability Testing: Measuring Emotional Response to Guide Design (opens new window)
- Designing for Easy Interaction (opens new window)
- When Design Best Practices Become Performance Worst Practices (opens new window)
- User Experience is… (opens new window)
- Forks in the Road (opens new window)
- Your real competitors (opens new window)
- Killing Feature Creep (opens new window)
- Scrolling is easier than clicking (opens new window)
- Usability Tip: Don’t Make Me Search for Search (opens new window)
- How fast is fast enough? (opens new window)
# Web Development
- International box-sizing Awareness Day (opens new window)
- Be the First to Attend the 2014 Build Right Workshops (opens new window)
- To Sass or Not to Sass? The Two Tims on The East Wing (opens new window)
- Boxes That Fill Height (Or More) (and Don’t Squish) (opens new window)
- You Might Not Need jQuery (opens new window)
- Thought Process of a Front End Problem (opens new window)
- A Dive Into Plain JavaScript (opens new window)
- Changing Between Spaces and Tabs in Sublime Text (opens new window)
- CSS Animation Tricks: State Jumping, Negative Delays, Animating Origin, and More (opens new window)
- Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts (opens new window)
- When To Use The Button Element (opens new window)
# Web Tools
- Kimono Could Be The Gateway Drug To Finally Get You Coding (opens new window)
- 50 of the Best Online Courses and Resources for Learning Web Design (opens new window)
- 5 Tips for Pre-Launch Landing Pages (opens new window)
- SaveDeo Downloads Videos from Instagram, Flickr and Other Video Sites (opens new window)