Thursday, May 17, 2018

๐Ÿ“ Issue #329: The UX of Simple Words, Download Adobe XD for Free, Running a Creative Business, 5 Signs You Should Fire a Client, and more…

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NEWSLETTER ISSUE #329 MAY 17, 2018

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The UX of Simple Words

There are two types of UX professional: those who make things accessible for clients, and those who try to protect their position as specialists by confusing clients with technical jargon. According to this thought-provoking article, good UX designers not only design simple sites, but communicate their decisions simply too.

Adobe XD CC is Now Available for Free

This week Adobe announced that their popular UI design app, Adobe eXperience Design CC is available to all designers for free. The full-featured release of XD for both Mac and Windows is an attempt to secure the position of de facto standard in the emerging field of UX tools. You can download the application right now.

Don't Blame GDPR for Your Full Inbox

Is your inbox overflowing with updated privacy notifications from brands desperate for you to stay in touch? Everyone from global charities to tech giants are rushing to get their consent emails out before the 25th May deadline. But it turns out those emails may not be necessary at all. Check before your company follows suit.

Get your team on the same playbook with monday.com

monday.com offers simplified planning and collaboration tools. Create customizable boards to track everything your team is working on, and communicate over chat rooms that can be organized between various projects. Keep all communication in one place and never lose track again. Create a free account and start using monday.com today! - AD

How to Run a Creative Business

Ben Burns is an award-winning designer and a digital director at Blind, a brand strategy design consultancy. He changed his career by swapping a $50 logo service for $100/hour consultancy. In this must-listen podcast from Beyond Users, Ben teaches designers what he's learned about how to run a creative business.

100 Things Announced at I/O '18

Google's I/O conference has just wrapped, and for anyone who was unfortunate enough not to be in attendance, here's a list of 100 things that were announced. From AI and machine learning, to revisions for Android and wearables, to AR and VR, to the newly announced Google One, there's something to interest everyone.

Progressive Enhancement and the Slow Death of IE

The gulf between the features a modern browser supports, and those that Internet Explorer supports, is growing wider all the time. And the issue isn't restricted to IE; every browser will, eventually become obsolete. Oliver Williams talks us through the minefield of support for old browsers and delivering content across devices.

The Minimum You Should Know About SEO

With typography, user experience, front-end code, content strategy, branding, and more, it can be both confusing and stressful staying up to date with everything web design requires. But if you're serious about web design you must understand SEO. Myrium Jessier walks us through the minimum you should know about search strategy.

Flopstarter

Flopstarter is a hilarious parody of Kickstarter. Billing itself as a platform for bad ideas, it features some truly useless projects that no one would choose to back. You can support projects ranging from Natural Death Beef (a beef range made from cows that have died in their sleep), to Coconut Shampoo for Coconuts.

5 Signs You Need to Fire Your Client

There's nothing more soul-destroying than a bad client. Knowing how to spot one, and what action to take when you do, can keep a designer both sane, and financially afloat. Carrie Cousins looks at five signs that you need to dissolve an unproductive partnership, and offers invaluable advice on how to move on for everyone's benefit.

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