📝 Issue #430: Who Moved My Button? Keeping a Remote Team Together, The Digital Product Handbook, Typehut, and more…

Change is inevitable, especially in web design where changing businesses mandate changing sites. But learned UX means that many users resent change, and will even stop using a product if it introduces changes. Saee Vaze offers some excellent advice on how to take users with you as you evolve.

If you’re trapped in lockdown looking for something productive to do, you might consider building your first digital product. The Digital Product Handbook is a completely free guide to building digital products that covers topics like generating ideas, how to set pricing, and how to launch your idea on the web.

If you love simple independent publishing, you’ll love Typehut. Typehut allows you to publish a blog, a newsletter, a simple changelog, or a list of events in a super simple format. You can write and publish in seconds, and your blog is fully customisable with templates. There’s a free plan to get you started.

Remote working is now a fact of life. The trend was already spreading, but the coronavirus outbreak has accelerated it to the point that almost every company is now working remotely. We’ve put together this handy list of tools to ease your team into the new landscape of remote work.

Otter uses a sophisticated AI to generate transcriptions of meetings, conversations, interviews, lectures, or any other audio event. Version 2.0 has just been released, featuring improved collaboration, making it easy to share the contents of a meeting with your entire team. It has a free plan.

Austin Knight led UX for HubSpot.com, helping grow it from a small concern to one of the most visited SaaS on the web with 35,000+ enterprise customers and a market cap of $3.1 billion. In this extremely detailed case study he lays out the tactics the team used to transform the user experience of the site.

If you’re serious about SEO, you know that you need to conduct dedicated keyword research to target both organic, and paid search terms. WMS Everywhere is a free browser extension that allows you to check search volume, cost per click, and related keywords right from within the Google search page.

WordPress is great at defying odds. From a simple blogging tool it has grown into a complex CMS, and it continues to evolve with initiatives like Gutenberg. As more and more of the web goes code-free, is it possible that WordPress too will ultimately abandon hand-coding? Eric Karkovack investigates.

Saying, “No” is hard. Whether it’s a friend or family member asking, or even a business contact you like, it’s never easy to turn someone down, and even harder to do it without burning bridges. How to Say No is a super-helpful collection of free gmail templates to easily, and politely decline work offers.