Newsletter #8: We are hiring

Festive greetings to one and all! Wishing you all a very no-code Christmas.

🦸‍♀️ Hiring: Designer & No-Coder 

We are looking for a Designer & No-Coder with 4+ years of experience and a passion for Webflow. If you know anyone who fits the bill, we are running information sessions on Mon 13 Dec at 12:00 (register) and Weds 15 Dec at 13:00 (register).

⛵ Launch: Founders Collaborative Hub

SIDE worked with ACF & Shift to design and build the new Funders Collaborative Hub website. Visit the website to see what projects funders are collaborating on: “SIDE brought a new injection of insight and creativity” - Jim Cooke at ACF.

🌐 Launch: Tech Policy Design Lab 

The second Webflow site we launched this month, Tech Policy Design Lab, is for the World Wide Web Foundation. Tim Berners-Lee’s organisation that fights for a fairer web. “Thanks to @sidelabs_ for building this beauty” - Calum Cameron at Web Foundation.  

🌳 Update: No-Code for CAS

We’ve been powering ahead with our big project for Citizens Advice Scotland and CivTech. We’ve been working on superhuman voice assistants and secure uploading systems, all while managing to plant 4,000 trees.

🌈 Our Journey

The history and pre-history of SIDE. In 2001, Noam was crowned “website designer of the year” by Create Online. Andy sent him an email: ‘Would you design a site for us?” Glide through the rest of our journey.

---

🦉 Things we’re sharing on Slack

• Find ‘subtle bias in job ads’ - our recent ad is strongly feminine coded 

• A fun kerning game - kept Shivy and Noam busy for 45 mins!

• Design Tools Survey 2021 - looks like we’ve got the right kit

---

📬 Thanks for reading

If you enjoyed reading, please forward this newsletter to a friend. If you didn’t, tell us.

The SIDE crew!

🙏