What Women LOVE to Hear, Remote Work, UI Checklist — and more UX this week
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Published: 2020-03-14 13:08:53

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title: What Women LOVE to Hear, Remote Work, UI Checklist — and more UX this week
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date: 2020-03-14 12:44:29 UTC
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#### A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.


![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*O6JZlYNFIBCgdRjv.jpg)

[**5 principles for better designer-developer collaboration**](https://uxdesign.cc/5-principles-for-better-designer-developer-collaboration-36b4094887db?source=friends_link&sk=b0711ac31da63322fe4d5077d9bffd4b) →  
Prescriptive guides on how to hand off designs to developers are easy to follow and cross out from one’s list. But are they future-proof enough?

- [**Photo Privacy**](https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/03/12/photos-privacy) →  
What are your photos revealing about you?
- [**Design Confidence**](https://www.figma.com/blog/finding-confidence-in-design-decisions/) →  
Finding confidence in design decisions.
- [**What’s a Brand?**](https://matthewstrom.com/writing/what-is-a-brand/) →  
What we’ve been asking our whole careers.

The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 130,200 designers every week. Curated by [Fabricio Teixeira](https://twitter.com/fabriciot) and [Caio Braga](https://twitter.com/caioab).

### Stories from the community

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*dZP9OXu1oz73BxPt.png)

[**Let me explain it to you (and other things women LOVE to hear)**](https://uxdesign.cc/let-me-explain-it-to-you-and-other-things-women-love-to-hear-8234ac9a279e?source=friends_link&sk=962ba1bb5f4abe45a0c9d0c96a969fc8) →  
By [Lizette Spangenberg](https://medium.com/u/d8243a77f522)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*JdYKqUiaXFtM0-ze.png)

[**Why I never quote a fixed price**](https://uxdesign.cc/why-i-never-quote-a-fixed-price-c70427aab628?source=friends_link&sk=d9f10c34676bc637ba2739b6b6789c75) →  
By [Benek Lisefski](https://medium.com/u/1933a0f84e4b)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*Z06KrVwz6Z2_p3kQ.png)

[**Checklist to improve your product UI**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-improve-your-product-ui-designers-checklist-58510947e6ab?source=friends_link&sk=dc3e53afbd3b0d31eca9fdb67192b590) →  
By [Anna Sh](https://medium.com/u/62a8b07a8792)

More top stories:

- [**What do we owe to each other?**](https://uxdesign.cc/what-do-we-owe-to-each-other-386002b35483?source=friends_link&sk=2fc2c5f41420854da2eeb3c8bd88b630) **→**  
By [Jonathon Colman](https://medium.com/u/3653b3b355d2)
- [**Why you should always aim for open-ended conversations**](https://uxdesign.cc/why-you-should-always-aim-for-open-ended-conversations-331321cdbd7?source=friends_link&sk=80cce43d1a0afffa78c4d7ee4dc13816) **→**  
By [Nikki Anderson](https://medium.com/u/e8ac30bd8165)
- [**Learning UX from the design of a biscuit**](https://uxdesign.cc/learn-ux-from-the-design-of-a-biscuit-3d4b2fd5466c?source=friends_link&sk=9da25bbed545a0eea234fb960fe90837) **→**  
By [Yuvraj Shivhare](https://medium.com/u/6a10cf6d917d)
- [**More efficient Usability Testing with this template**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-this-template-made-our-user-testing-sessions-more-efficient-84d3308340c9?source=friends_link&sk=5a69b1c9af7094a9ec9bc338066b48e6) **→**  
By [Shane Doyle](https://medium.com/u/7c58c756243c)
- [**Using auto-layout components in Figma**](https://uxdesign.cc/auto-layout-components-in-figma-110b170b9367?source=friends_link&sk=8f8add8ccd1f96aa4e1ee37f51420347) **→**  
By [Aleksei Kipin](https://medium.com/u/de28b323491c)
- [**Guidelines for breadcrumbs design**](https://uxdesign.cc/guidelines-for-breadcrumbs-design-a90eb1b21348?source=friends_link&sk=9ead5ca3898c4939e8db26d36c44aae8) **→**  
By [Jeremiah Lam](https://medium.com/u/83e28a72eee1)
- [**Staying motivated on Duolingo with good UX**](https://uxdesign.cc/staying-motivated-on-duolingo-93f9eb537781?source=friends_link&sk=51ab4073fd97c1cdc37b107105a98466) **→**  
By [Tim Lum](https://medium.com/u/163b67dfa026)
- [**A toolkit for living as a dyslexic designer**](https://uxdesign.cc/tools-for-living-as-a-dyslexic-designer-334ce5a3da5f?source=friends_link&sk=d3076970873ead9cd5b485bbad6a624a) **→**  
By [Rob Boyett](https://medium.com/u/14bb8e32e402)

### News & ideas

- [**Corporate Speak**](https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html) →  
Why do corporations speak the way they do?
- [**100 Women**](https://time.com/100-women-of-the-year/) →  
A century of Time Magazine’s women of the year.
- [**Negotiating Price**](https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/a-creative-persons-guide-to-negotiating/) →  
A creative person’s guide to negotiating.

### On remote work (yep, the virus)

- [**Remote Brainstorm**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-brainstorm-with-your-newly-remote-team-9f8456becbf?source=friends_link&sk=be98df4a41e5fdd10b8996bc9dd8fe16) →  
How to brainstorm with your newly remote team. By [Jen Goertzen](https://medium.com/u/166a179ba66e)
- [**Remote Makers**](https://remotemakers.co/) →  
Interviews with people working remotely.
- [**Remote Leadership**](https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/found-yourself-leading-a-remote-design-team/) →  
Found yourself leading a remote design team?

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/0*V4-xKjjeccAnyINm.jpg)<figcaption><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kunelgaur/"><strong>Featured work: Kunel Gaur</strong></a> →</figcaption>

### Tools & resources

- [**Accessible Chrome**](https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101?s=20) →  
New accessibility feature in ChromeDevTools.
- [**Remove Video BG**](https://www.unscreen.com/) →  
Get rid of video backgrounds.
- [**Monalisa Font**](https://monolisa.dev/) →  
Designed to improve developer’s productivity.

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