https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571552-so-you-ve-been-publicly-shamed

Rdio has been a great service that I'm sad to see shut down. It's a good lesson that excellent design doesn't matter if you don't have a good marketing strategy. Or maybe their well-intentioned design focus was foiled by the masses just wanting a "free iTunes" along with the familiar "spreadsheet nightmare" interface.

Looking back, some former employees say Rdio sometimes focused on the wrong things. It invested many product cycles in refining its queue — a place to collect things you want to listen to later. Every other music streaming service offers a queue that’s a simple list of tracks. But if you dragged an album or a playlist into Rdio’s queue, Rdio would recognize it as a distinct object, so you could drag and drop an album above a track, or a full playlist below an album. "At the end of the day, that was not a major differentiating factor," says Wilson Miner, who led design at Rdio from its launch until May 2012. "If we hadn’t had something like that, nobody would have noticed and it would have been fine. I still wish we could have solved it, but it was more of a personal quest than a brutally honest assessment of priorities."

My other fave is cmd + shift + 4 then clicking on an application window to capture just the application :)

Pro tip: Dropbox can automatically save Mac screenshots taken with cmd + shift + 3. It places them in a new "Screenshots" folder and copies the share URL to your clipboard.

How to set it up: dropbox.com/en/help/1964

Nice try, materialdesignblog.com

The 15" MBP just got a spec-bump and Force Touch, so you might hold out for the 13" to also get a bump.

Apple added the Force Touch trackpad to the 13-inch MacBook Pros after announcing it for the new MacBook in March, so it's been expected to arrive in these models alongside a spec bump.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8623803/apple-retina-imac-macbook-pro-updates

Yonder is a conference (for 2 years running) with sessions specifically about remote work and distributed companies.

http://yonder.io

Design and Content http://www.designcontentconf.com

• Aaron Gustafson
• James White
• Jared Spool
• Karen McGrane
• Sara Wachter-Boettcher

For your daily dose of 80's retro excess and pop art, look no further than James White: https://instagram.com/signalnoise/

If you're looking for examples of responsive university websites, here's a great list: http://erikrunyon.com/highered-rwd-directory/