Designers who write

Hello y' all! 👋🏽

I hope you're well.

🌸 We're officially coming out of Winter and entering Spring with its blossoming flowers, colour and a general sense of better days. 🌺

A great time to get together and reflect on how WE can blossom as people and as professionals; what new things can we try out? What can we play with and learn? I am sure you'll agree that this month's talk matches this sentiment perfectly! Let's push the boat out! Let's try something new 💪🏽!

And what safer space to do it in than our wonderful group?

This month it's about -- 🥁 drum roll 🥁 -- ... writing!!! ✍🏼 Yes writing. Because as researchers/ thinkers/ designers, writing is actually a big part of what we do day to day. And also, on a personal level, writing can also make us more hireable... and who would mind a bit more of that? 🙋🏽

We're especially excited for this talk, which featured in UX Bristol 2019 and some of us had the pleasure of attending.

Here's more about what will be covered:

-- The talk --
"As a designer, the ability to write is crucial: it helps us solve problems, share ideas and knowledge, reflect on challenges we've overcome — and become more hireable! But this is easier said than done: when we decide to write an article, the fear of the blank page, impostor syndrome and the thought that everyone already knows about what we're writing are always looking over our shoulder. In this workshop, we will look at why writing is so important and how it can make for better designers, and we will learn some tips and tricks to write about our work faster and more often."

-- About Inayaili --
Inayaili León Persson is a Design Producer at GitHu, where she works on GitHub’s Primer design system. Previously, she worked on design systems and design ops at Microsoft, and she led the team creating Canonical’s Vanilla design system. She writes frequently for well-known online publications and on her own web design blog, and speaks at local and international web conferences and meet-ups, and currently serves on the expert panel of .net magazine, the UK’s leading web design publication, and Smashing Magazine. She’s the co-author of “Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites” (Apress, 2011), and author of “Moving to Responsive Web Design” (Apress, 2016). She’s Panamanian Portuguese, born in the USSR, and lives in London — her favourite city in the world.

You can follow Inayaili on Twitter @yaili

Join us for this interactive workshop and get cracking with your writing! We canNOT wait!!!!

See you there 😊

Efi, Amy, Candi & Ajara

PS: Meeting link to come nearer the time
PPS: As this is an interactive session, we might have to limit the number of attendees. Please RSVP to avoid disappointment.