Our awesome new job board is now free and full of enticing opportunities!

Tuts+ Jobs is a job board for full time, part time and casual employment opportunities for web and creative professionals. A brand new site to go alongside the Tuts+ Educational Network and the Envato Marketplaces, all run by Envato.

There’s no need to sign up to apply for jobs, and it’s now free to post a job – try it now!

Earn and Learn

Envato is committed to helping people earn and learn online. We provide a wealth of educational material through Tuts+ and Tuts+ Premium, alongside the Envato Marketplaces to help you benefit from the creative skills you learn.

Tuts+ Jobs furthers this vision perfectly. With Tuts+ you can learn the skills you need to become a creative professional, and with Tuts+ Jobs you can find an amazing job that uses those skills. Our goal here is to take the hassle out of finding a job, so we’ve made the process as simple as can be!

Finding a Job

With Tuts+ Jobs we’re committed to making every step of the job-finding process more intuitive, simpler and more efficient. We don’t want to stand between you and a great opportunity.

It’s totally free to sign up and start applying for jobs, and if nothing matches your initial search you can receive notifications when jobs come up that match your criteria. We will have full time, part time and casual listings from all around the world. Check the listing to find out where the job is based, as some jobs may offer remote opportunities.

Posting a Job

Posting a job is now free!

If you have a position that you need to fill, or a great part/full-time opportunity, then Tuts+ Jobs is the best way to find a talented and creative individual to do that job. Each 30-day listing is completely free, regardless of the type of job you’re posting.

Your job listing will be promoted across the entire Tuts+ network. With exposure to our ten million visitors over the course of 30 days, it’s a brilliant way to reach exactly the type of audience you’re looking for.

Sign Up, Explore, and Subscribe

There are lots of great opportunities already on Tuts+ Jobs, and we’ll be posting even more exciting job positions over the next few weeks, so now is the best time to head over to the site and subscribe to a job search that interests you. That way you’ll be the first to know when any new listings show up that match your skill set and requirements.

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You’ve created the greatest design of your career. That’s a lot to be said considering you’ve been in the industry for so long. You’ve studied so hard throughout the years and made so many sacrifices in the name of design. That determination has placed you in the design seat that you sit in today, infront of this masterful work. You feel it’s your time to make your mark in design history and to start a style movement. Most designers hate when others copy their work but you realize it’s the only way to stop UI pollution.

The only question is, “How do I get my design to start a style movement”? Then a light bulb blasts over your head like Fourth of July fireworks. The answer is simple: design a flaw.

Make it Perfect

All designers have different processes for different projects. However, the one thing that never changes is the elements and principles of design. Things like color, shape, texture, rhythm, pattern, consistency, balance, etc… all play a vital role in how great the design truly is.  It’s the fluid formula to a successful design.

Design a Flaw

What if we were to take that perfect design and take away one of those elements and principles? Now I’m not talking about slapping a big pink blog in the middle of a blue design. I’m talking about taking away a simple thing like color meaning in a design.  What if we simply used no meaning of color? The design would still be flawless but the usage of color might be questionable to some. Thus leaving a flaw in the design.

Now what does this say to other designers? This screams fix me. If you have a large enough platform like say, a globally used operating system, and apply this method of single flaw design, others will follow and perfect it.

This sounds kinda crazy right? It’s really not when you think about it. Keep reading your mind is about to be blown.

Example

For example purposes let’s take the most widely used operating system on the planet, Microsoft Windows. Then let’s look at their latest operating system, Windows 8.

When you first look at the screenshot you notice “wow” this is a really nice design. They clearly have used a grid layout to align everything. There is a nice usage of icons to distinguish the different windows or panels. The colors pop as they contrast one another quite well. But wait a minute? Why is Messaging and Maps the same color? The same thing with Store and Games. I understand why Internet Explorer is the specific light blue because that’s the color identity of Internet Explorer. It almost looks like they chose random colors that popped from another and slapped icons on them, or maybe they purposely left a design flaw to initiate a style movement or trend [Mind Blown].

Now Look at Us

Here we are a couple of years later with a number of designs that look very similar to this type of design. We are up to our ears with Flat UI, minimal iconography and big box buttons. All a designer has to do is take the guidelines Microsoft used and apply color theory or more specifically color meaning to their design and Voila! You have an amazing design for us to all enjoy.

Is Windows directly held accountable for this trend? No, I dont think so. But they have definitely made an impact in the interactive industry with their design as others bit their style hard. With a platform that large, it’s hard not to.

Conclusion

In conclusion, if you create a flawless design style and want to start a movement, perhaps you should scale back a design principle or two and design a flaw for others to improve upon. Who knows, maybe your design style will be the next movement.

The post Start a Style Movement by Designing a Flaw appeared first on Treehouse Blog.

It was only a matter of time before Apple’s recent updates by hardware design chief Jony Ive became fodder for talented jokesters and spoofers alike. A new Tumblr blog, aptly named Jony Ive Redesigns Things, is a sampling of mockups by web users around the globe of familiar items redone in Ive’s colorful iOS7 motif. 

LA-based designer Sasha Agapov started the blog with a Google redesign. Items posted range from the Mona Lisa, to a Coke bottle, to Microsoft; along with every social media logo imaginable. There’s also a particularly humorous take on iTunes, the Apple logo and the Apple campus.

Whatever you think of the neon color scheme and flat design elements of the new Apple overhaul, this playful take on Jony Ive’s work is a reminder that somewhere there’s always a critic — or thousands of them — convinced they could do it better.

Which redesign is your favorite? What would you like to see Ive redesign? Let us know in the comments.

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What did you study in college?

After barely passing the Computer Science major requirements at UC Berkeley, I decided to focus on easier topics to graduate with: English and Social Welfare.

How did you get into tech?

When I graduated I had years of building websites under my belt, so my first job was at a venture-backed startup. I quickly learned how lonely it can be as a woman on an all-male engineering teams, so I went on to start Women 2.0 to meet like-minded entrepreneurial women in tech, and then two years later started Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners to meet even MORE of them! Women in tech DO exist in droves!

What are you currently working on?

Currently I'm working to change the ratio of women in engineering as Director of Growth at Hackbright Academy. An accelerated software development program solely for women, we attract students from all over the world and pair them with software engineer mentors to help them find work in tech. Now our students are working at partner companies and commanding some pretty impressive salaries after graduating from the 10-week program.

When did you get into programming?

In high school we got AOL at home and I was fascinated by the Internet. I looked at the HTML behind the simple webpages in 1999, and learned to write my own code and put up webpages. As a shy and quiet student, I supported my friends in leadership positions by creating their websites, and they started referring me to paid positions. And so it goes.

How did you learn to program?

Learning to program is simply being curious about how things work. How does this webpage render? What makes that do that? You peek behind the curtain, like they did in Wizard of Oz, and find that it's lines of code that eventually make sense after you do a lot of Googling and asking questions.

Google is a great resource for learning to program, as well as simply hanging out with other people who like to code. When sitting next to another person on their laptop coding (I think we call this "co-working" now), you can ask questions aloud and have them answered right away.

Your 140 character tip for aspiring founders?

Just start asking questions out loud - over Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn - and you will learn from the answers you receive. Start iterating on your idea, and it will snowball.