Category: Learning
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Photography on manual: 1
I’ve had a DSLR for nearly a year now. And I still only ever use it on the Auto modes. I studied photography (with film cameras) during my Art Foundation course ~10 years ago, but I think any decent photos were mostly luck, and I can’t remember much of it.
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Breaking Stuff on A List Apart
Last week my latest column, Breaking Stuff, was published on A List Apart. I’m in a strange transitional period, moving from client work to fulltime at ind.
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Inspiration on A List Apart
Last week my column on Inspiration was published on A List Apart. It follows roughly the same structure as the talk I gave at Design + Banter a few weeks ago.
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Industry mentoring on Creative Bloq
Craig Grannell has written a fantastic article on Creative Bloq about mentoring, looking at loads of different ways the web industry can do mentoring well.
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Design theory for the web, a workshop
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 and you learn by watching how others do it.
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Podcast interview with Jonathan Kahn
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.
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Sass for designers — the talk and the case study
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 started using CodeKit.
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Mentoring Q and A on .net magazine
After finishing the mentoring project last week, I had a chat with Craig Grannell about mentoring which he published on the .
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Mentoring: the evaluation
Previous posts on the mentoring project: [Mentoring a project: the idea](/mentoring-a-project-the-idea/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: the idea”) [Mentoring a project: the right project](/mentoring-a-project-the-right-project/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: the right project”) [Mentoring a project: finding the right people](/mentoring-a-project-finding-the-right-people/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: finding the right people”) Mentoring a project: the project Mentoring a project: contract and kicking off It’s been four months since we started the mentoring project and now it’s drawing to a close.
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Mentoring a project: contract and kicking off
Previous posts on the mentoring project: [Mentoring a project: the idea](/mentoring-a-project-the-idea/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: the idea”) [Mentoring a project: the right project](/mentoring-a-project-the-right-project/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: the right project”) [Mentoring a project: finding the right people](/mentoring-a-project-finding-the-right-people/" target="_blank “Mentoring a project: finding the right people”) Mentoring a project: the project It’s been far too long since I wrote about the mentoring project.
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