Scribd gets Designd

Perhaps one of the most underrated platforms in the realm of web innovation, connection and the freeing of information is the three-year-old Scribd. While Facebook and Twitter get all the social media recognition and Google Books all the information hoarding props, Scribd is a vibrant repository — 10 million documents published so far — of user-generated content that makes books, magazine articles, white papers, presentations, and more, available in a painless format that is easy for users to share and for readers to access. I became enamored with Scribd when we were working on Graphic Design, Referenced as we were able to find plenty of articles and essays that otherwise would have been a pain in the behind to acquire. The service isn’t perfect, of course, as it’s