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No more Red Bull 27 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
Using a Fitbit over the last year and a half has taught me that making your habits more visible in public makes you more likely to work harder. When you’re giving up a bad habit, often there’s not muc...
Guest on Happy Monday Podcast 19 Aug 2013 | 12:26 pm
Last Friday I was a guest for today’s Happy Monday podcast. It was great fun chatting with Josh and Sarah about design, client work and inspiration.
Design theory for the web, a workshop 12 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
Here’s a slightly scary thing: I’m doing my first solo workshop on the 11th October 2013 in Barnsley. I often get asked about the best way to “learn design”, and I usually say that you learn by doing...
Podcast interview with Jonathan Kahn 9 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
Ahead of speaking at Dare conference this September, I was interviewed by Jonathan Kahn, one of Dare’s organisers, about being honest, client relationships and mentoring in the web industry. It was l...
Browser windows and responsive language 8 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
In the same way that we continually evolve the processes we use when working with clients, I’ve now found myself evolving and refining the language I use with clients when discussing responsive web de...
Sass for designers — the talk and the case study 26 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Yesterday I gave a talk at the fantastic online conference CSS Summit on ‘Sass for designers’. It uses my new site Web Talk Dog Walk as a case study, and explains the basics of Sass and how to get sta...
Web talk dog walk, the site 25 Jul 2013 | 09:56 pm
I’ve finally made a site for the web talk dog walks! It may be a small site, and is probably very broken in places, but it was a fun mini project and worked well as a case study for my Sass for design...
Speaking at Dare conference 3 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
I’m speaking as a ‘Breakout’ speaker at Dare conference in September. As soon as I saw the rumblings of this conference, I knew it was an event I wanted to attend. It’s focusing on risk, vulnerability...
Fonts.com mockup fonts 2 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
I do like the way that fonts.com do web fonts. (I also like all of the web font services for different reasons and different projects.) Mockup fonts Fonts.com have this new system that really works....
Interview in Allan McAvoy’s Freelancers series 2 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Last week Allan McAvoy posted up the interview he did with me as part of his Freelancers series. Some of the questions are fairly standard, but there’s also some unusual ones like “favourite colour fo...
