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Nov 6, 2022

Insights from Fockups, Smashing Magazine, and UI Design Tips to Energize Your Week

Five Finds of the week


  1. Guide to getting started as a Freelance designer in 2022 (Get it here ๐Ÿ”—)

  2. Fockups - Imprefect Mockups for the perfect world (Get it here ๐Ÿ”—)

  3. Linear's Community QnA Home Page in Figma (Check it out ๐Ÿ”—)

  4. Building User Trust in UX (Read Now ๐Ÿ”—)

  5. Figma's Scroll to Playground (Play Now ๐Ÿ”—)


Four Things to Read, See and Hear this week


  1. Negotiation Styles from around the world (Read Article ๐Ÿ”—)

  2. Vineeta Singh feat. Barbershop with Shantanu Podcast (See Full Talk ๏ธ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ)

  3. How to write your own job description - Wes Kao (Read Article ๐Ÿ”—)

  4. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
    (See full Lesson ๐Ÿ”—)


Three Things to Try this week


  1. Figma's Accesible Prototypes Playground (Try now ๐Ÿ”—)

  2. Micro Interactions Prototypes Figma File (Try now ๐Ÿ”—)

  3. Linktree - A link in Bio Tool from Shopify (Try now ๐Ÿ”—)


UI Tips


Tip #1


One of the most important functions of well built UI is to make it easy for your users to course correct. And @Ghost does this beautifully offering an option to update the links quickly in one place instead of hitting the edit button on the post.



Tip #2

Feedback is a touchy topic and human's do not like to give negative feedback. So, make it easy for them and yourself to collect feedback with simple actions. You can followup for additional feedback only if they consciously opt-in.


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