Back on February 23rd, I posted a list of three goals I wanted to work on, and I’m proud to say I can cross all three off that list.
My Mockups to Code class for Girl Develop It was last weekend, and it was a resounding success. I haven’t spoken at any conferences yet, but I did submit a talk to SASSConf and CSS Dev Conf. I’m not sure I’m ready to do it, but the first step is trying!
Lastly, the app launch in April went just fine, and while there’s always more work to do, I’m very proud of what we’ve built since starting practically from scratch.
Next up I’ll be mentoring for MakerSquare Web Dev bootcamp, working on a logo and a new site for my boyfriend’s poker training site, and well.. let’s be honest. I’ll be in Isla Mujeres, Mexico for a week in June. Goals for that? Margaritas and being as disconnected as I can for a week.
Personal milestone achieved! I just taught my first-ever Girl Develop It class! Mockups to Code was born after I was a TA for the Intro to HTML & CSS class last year.
Intro to HTML & CSS promises to teach you “how to build your own website”. It’s an...
I had the pleasure of attending the first-ever ArtifactConf last week here in Austin. You can tell from the speaker list that it was a good one, but I have to say I was really blown away by the quality of content.
The talks were amazing, the parties were...
For the acronym deficient, that’s Girl Develop It Austin, and last weekend Sophie Shepherd of Happy Cog taught an excellent responsive web development class, Intro to Responsive Design, that I had the pleasure to TA for.
Her slides covered some great examples of RWD sites, including...
Am I planning, stalling, or executing in this moment?
After a chance meeting with @alwaysunday (thanks @tswicegood, I found myself signing up for Finish Up Weekend. Like Random Hacks of Kindness, it’s all about getting together for the weekend and actually getting shit done—only for yourself.
Considering I’ve had a laundry list of things I’ve...
So, it’s been two months since I posted anything? Oops. Sorry, y’all. I swear I have fifteen half drafted posts written up! I’ll get to those soon enough. Here’s a few things I’ve been doing, reading, and otherwise paying attention to lately! And I promise to post those drafts soon!
...I was on the ATX Web Show this week with a short recap of An Event Apart!
As Jeremy Keith wrote in his post-AEA journal, “the recurring themes were pretty clear: process and workflow.”
Responsive design process was huge. We’re past the phase of, as Megan Fisher's...
I loathe the term “user experience designer”, because I still believe that “user experience” is just a fundamental to what you’re doing, and shouldn’t need stating. There is nothing but user experience design if you’re building products for people. I have a sneaking suspicion that’s what I am though and probably have always been, in the wide world of jobs people are already doing. User experience service product developer maker dogsbody thing. I am a designer who writes code, who will defend better user experiences and probably be able to tell you how to get them. But I still won’t do the pictures. Deal?
I’ve gotten such a lovely response already. I’m so encouraged!
For those of you who said hello, world? was relatable: I knew I wasn’t alone in that feeling. You can do it. Now get to shipping it, and send me a link!
For those of you retweeting & linking to me, thank you. You rock. And for @bryanveloso who said my site was “bold and perfect”…I just changed it.
After writing up notes for A Style Guide Guide, I realized I was leaving out a lot of crucial process elements. AEA’s overarching theme was responsive process and tools, a new way to work that is future friendly. So I’m trying to combine all of that and write a...
Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication.
…you’re probably going to have to do more work than you imagined you’d have to do to get to the place that you imagined as successful. And when you get there, you’ll see that “successful” feels less successful than you thought it would. …If you truly feel that calling in you, then listen to it and respect it, but don’t expect that anything is going to be given to you—you have to get it.
At my job, I’m one of two designers. My coworker is an incredibly talented designer, but comes from an agency background, and doesn’t code. We are rebooting our company’s existing app with all-new design and functionality. He’s been working on some excellent concepts for it, and we are almost ready...
I’ve been in webdesign for either nine years, or twelve, depending on if you generously count the crimes against the web I once created on Geocities.
In all that time, I’ve never had a blog. For most of those nine years, I didn’t think I knew enough to begin contributing...