Iulia P. - freelance content writer for b2b

8 Crucial Soft Skills You Need as a UX Designer Schools often overlook soft skills, focusing on technical and hard skills instead. However, soft skills are crucial for career advancement, as they complement and support hard skills. For UX designers, empathy, communication, curiosity, critical thinking, and adaptability are vital soft skills. These skills enhance the design thinking process and create a well-rounded skill set, making designers more successful and sought after by tech recruiters.

If you plan to build an app as a part of your business strategy, you should be aware of the following statistic: 71% of users will stop using an app within the first 90 days of downloading (Statista). While this percentage might seem scary, it has good reasons behind it. To understand them, let's dive into user mentality and see some of the most common issues users face before uninstalling apps.

When your work involves writing at your desk for long hours, it is easy for your attention to shift, to get lost in your research between tabs, or worse—to make zero progress. If you use a Chromium-based browser, you are lucky to have access to many extensions that can help you maximize your productivity. Here are 5 Chrome Extensions to use as a writer to save time, organize your work, and not lose your mind.

Here's an uncomfortable truth—as a small business with no marketing budget, you are nowhere on the map if you are not using Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is a set of practices that makes your business discoverable on Google. In other words, SEO brings your business in front of your dream customers when they search online for services like yours.

Imagine you go on a run and drop by a café. While you sip an espresso, you take a photo of the can and post it on Instagram with the café handle linked. That is an example of user-generated content.

When you run a small business, you spend a lot of time creating content for your website, social media, emails, and campaigns. OrbitMedia research reveals only a high-quality blog post takes over six hours to write, while most readers tend to skim through articles. But what if I told you there is a way to get the most value out of your content?