📝 Issue #431: Exciting New Tools For Designers, Brainstorming From a Distance, What’s Your Font Style, 65 UX Methods, and more…

Remote work and distributed teams are increasingly common, and it looks like that trend’s set to continue. Mia Pinjuh speaks to six creative leaders for their tips, and experiences of digital collaboration, with some must-read advice for anyone who is hoping to thrive creatively in the current climate.

After the web, the interfaces we spend most time with are probably games. Whether you prefer hacking off heads with a chainsaw, or guiding cute anime characters through mazes, central to every successful experience is the UI. Interface in Game is superb collection of game UIs for your delectation.

If the global pandemic has you wishing for a simpler time, when Friends wasn’t a rerun, and the only bug we were worried about was the Y2K, then you’ll love 98.CSS; a design system for building UIs that would have been at home on Windows 98. It’s fantastically well observed and surprisingly useful.

Each month we publish a roundup of the hottest new tools released in the previous four weeks. This week we posted April’s edition and in it you’ll find some great typography tools, an awesome new podcast, resources for surviving the Coronavirus outbreak, as well as free icons and fonts.

If you’re finding lockdown to be less than beneficial for networking, then now could be the perfect time to join Lunchclub. It’s a great way of meeting people who could help your career, from investors to partners. Signup for a weekly one-to-one video chat over lunch, and start meeting relevant professionals.

With the economy going haywire, the sites that seem to be holding up best are e-commerce stores, thanks to people shopping during lockdown. If you’re experiencing a downturn, you can still do plenty to boost your search engine rankings. Dayana Mayfield lists 22 things you should be doing right now.

If you’re working on a side project it is essential that you have proper legal protection, but hiring a lawyer to write your terms and privacy policy can be prohibitively expensive. Avodocs is a great service that provides startup-appropriate legal documents that you can use for free.

UX is a young branch of product design, and it’s still defining its job titles, let alone its preferred methodologies. To help himself, and others, define an optimum process Kalpesh Prithyani has put together this comprehensive list of UX design methods, from research, through ideation, to testing.

Have you ever wondered what kind of typeface you might be; are you a daring display face, a serious serif, or a trendy young variable font? If these are questions that keep you awake at night then Monotype have come to your rescue with this fun and oh so scientific quiz to find your font style.