Lists: everybody loves ‘em! So we’ve got three great ones courtesy of UX Planet. And we just hit 11,000 subscribers, so thank you all for your support! We're not going anyway, so expect a new issue every Wednesday morning.
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WHAT’S INSIDE ✍️ Issue #167 (Jan 19th, 2022)
50 work-life hacks
Keeping calm as a UX newbie
Medium’s microcopy
Believe in content design with Jonathon Colman
ARTICLES 📰
🙏 List #1 is aimed at visual designers but is just as relevant to wordsmiths. Highlight: “The sooner you realise that sometimes the most perfect anything needs to be is done, the easier your life as a designer will be.”
MICROCOPY BITE 💬 A+ for scannability and visual navigability from Medium. Already know what you’re doing? Paste the link and hit the CTA. Need more info? It’s perfectly organized on the screen, especially that “chance to edit” microcopy.
PILLARS OF COMMUNITY 🏛️ Hot topics and trending posts
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UPSKILL: LIVE EVENTS & MORE 📚
Podcast: You gotta believe! HubSpot is about to triple the size of its content design team, adding 20 new content designers. Their content design leader, Jonathon Colman, goes through their hiring process and drops heaps of handy tips for job seekers while he’s at it.
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JOBS 👔
Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance, and they need a UX writer in Vienna to help.
BackMarket is the number one European (and soon global) marketplace specializing in the sale of fully refurbished tech devices. They’re on the lookout for a content designer in New York.
Pingboard is real-time organizational chart software, so if you’re a UX writer in the Austin, TX area, give ‘em a holler. And, as always:
