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Great job @lisadziuba 🙌 What's next on the roadmap?

@widawskij thanks, Jonathan. I loved that you asked this 😍 We're working on a super huge research... How Design Companies Build Communities. It will mention all community building tacking + great examples from popular design companies. Should be very-very interesting.

@lisadziuba Sounds fantastic, looking forward to it!

@widawskij I have been working in the design & development industry since 2015. So I saw how these communities evolved and we build community for @flawlessapp as well. This research fascinates me a lot.

@lisadziuba congrats , look forward to reading :D!

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@adiatlov thanks for the question! Design tools are grouped by the task: tools to work with color tools to work with font ... tools to hand of design to developers tools for design systems So you will get around 10 tools in every email, weekly. That allows to learn something new with a comfortable speed.

@geek_1001 any tools for beginners?

@adiatlov absolutely! We mixed design professional tools and tools for beginners. Also, we included learning guides to make it easier to begin.

@geek_1001 it'd be pretty cool to separate tools for professionals and beginners. So every group knows which tools are for them.

@geek_1001 @adiatlov actually, a good idea! thanks!!

@thalion_pb thanks for supporting us :) We will add 10 tools from open-sourced repo Awesome Design Tools. How we will choose those 10 tools? It will be based on the reviews and feedback about those tools, also it should be something we'd love to use ourselves.

@thalion_pb for example if the tool is super expensive, while there are cheaper but equal alternative, we'll mention more affordable one. And if all the tools are great, we will make 2 issues on the same topic. For example, Prototyping topic has dozens on cool tools. We will do our best to mentions all useful, stable, affordable and user-friendly tools. The whole idea - is to make those newsletters in portions. So it will make learning process easier.

@thalion_pb About practical guides on using tools or around specific topic: that would be mostly on our opinion. How to choose which guide on color psychology is better? Those with more claps on Medium, more upvotes on Designer News or maybe written by more popular designer? I don't know the best approach to this yet. any ideas here?

@thalion_pb @lisadziuba yeah, it's hard to add *all* articles or to choose *the best one*...

@lachlankirkwood yay!!! happy to see you among our reader!

@daniil_kopilevych happy you liked it!!! Thanks Daniil :)

@savelii oh... actually, it should work in all countries!