Issue #72: 💎Sketch App Essentials and 🎨Free Color Tools

Issue #72, Thursday June 28

Hey! To round up this week in design, we’ve got 20 more awesome links for you, including:

☘ 13 new tools and resources
📚 7 great reads, well worth a bookmark

Also, there’s something exciting coming up! Next week we’ll be launching ‘Prototypr 2.0’, with a powerful new 🔍 search engine to give you better access to 15,000~ links we’ve indexed.
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Thanks for following, and enjoy this week’s picks 👇

7 Top Stories.

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By Sati Taschiba

1. 9 steps how to become a UX / UI designer, if you do not have work experience and a degree.

Sati describes how she started working as a designer and how, after going all this way, she advises others to start their career in the design field.

By Queenie Wu

2. The Imposter Syndrome Wildfire

It seems like everyone who writes about imposter syndrome doesn’t know what it’s actually like to be an imposter.

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By Suzy Baudoin

3. Why I left UX to design values

After over 6 years in the Silicon Roundabout, we started to perceive London as a hostile and unforgiving place.

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By Yuval Keshtcher

4. How to Improve Your Microcopy Skills With This 4 Simple Steps

Yuval shows us a simple way to create better microcopy and messaging for your product design, through the use of context.

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By Siobhan Özege

5. How to Make Friends and Influence Non-Technical Stakeholders

Siobhan explains how
be an expert without being a jerk about it, with awesome communication tips.

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By Hazel Tan

6. How the internet is a roadblock in my path to becoming a designer

This post is not about how complex design is, but about the new generation of designers who get lost in the web of resources to self-learn design.

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By Oksana Ivanova

7. Good Product Management: I do not create a product and feature.

Oksana explains why adding a feature, just of the pure joy of adding the feature, will result in failure. Check out her tips on good product management.

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