Starbucks hang out and chat!

Here are a few notes from the meeting we had on the 21st. We had one person show up, Darleen (sorry, I forgot your last name). Hopefully you can add a comment here. Anyway, Darleen and I had a great open ended discussion about UX, tools, prototyping and ideas about portfolios and staying current with such a face paced industry. Below are some lists with links on a few things we discussed. It was great meeting you Darleen!

UX Prototyping Tools

• Overflow.io - a great new prototyping and interaction design tool
• Sketch
• Adobe XD - which is currently free!
• Axure
• Figma
• CodePen

Design Systems

We had a great talk about how we might use design systems in our upcoming projects. This is more on the development and UI side, but it was interesting to go over. Some good resources include, just to name a few:

• DesignSystemsRepo.com
• Atlassian
• DesignSystems.com

Newsletters and Feeds

Staying current with various UX related newsletters and feeds. Many of these are UX / UI frontend focused, but useful none the less. These include:

• UX Collective
• Designer News
• Webdesigner News
• UXBeginner.com
• Codrops
• InVision
• Frontend Focus
• Medium

Sorry I didn’t have much leading up to this get together. I got sucked into a new project... but luckily, I’m working at this Starbucks today! So if anyone is here... please come visit me at the big table.

Unfortunately I can't leave work during the day. Hopefully I can make it to the next one!

Thanks for putting up this hangout! I'll try to make it :)