Category: Design
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Learning Design
Every now and again someone will email me asking how they should go about learning design. After reading Aral Balkan’s fantastic post on how design is not veneer, a few developers also expressed frustration at there not being many resources telling you how to get started with design.
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Speaking at the WordPress London January meetup
I’m speaking at the WordPress London January meetup on the 17th of January 2013. I’ve been using WordPress for years, for my own site and for client sites, and I really love it.
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24 Ways: Design Systems
I’ve been thinking a lot about the design in ‘responsive’ design lately. My post on 24ways is where I started to get some of my thoughts and ideas out.
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Bardowl: The Big One
For the last few years, I’ve been working with a great team of people on our iPhone app, Bardowl, an app for streaming unlimited audiobooks for £9.
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My favourite apps—fit for purpose
After sitting and waiting for Photoshop to open for five minutes, just to edit an old file, I went off on a bit of a rant about Adobe software.
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Grids, flexibility and responsiveness
First steps: choosing a typeface The first step in my grid design was to choose an appropriate typeface. I knew this would be everything on such a text-heavy site, and I really struggled because, as with all the elements on my personal site, I wanted it to reflect “me”.
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Really, a redesign? This can’t be real…
It’s about time… So finally I’ve redesigned my website. It’s been about three and a half years since the last version of laurakalbag.
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A Practical Guide to Designing with Data
Another ubelly post from me, this time a review. Much like my other reviews of books on this blog, just in another location!
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Typography and the web at Ampersand Conference
I’ve written a big old writeup for ubelly from my notes at Ampersand conference earlier in the month. This was an event I decided not to live-tweet, as the content is usually more involved and in-depth, making for a better big writeup and less tweetable quotes.
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Don’t let the technical processes of web development stifle your imagination
A new post from me, this time at .net magazine. Keep it creative! There’s some pretty cool comments over there too.
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