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Web talk dog walk, the site
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 designers talk.
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Speaking at Dare conference
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.
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Fonts.com mockup fonts
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.
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Interview in Allan McAvoy’s Freelancers series
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 for design” and “typical day in the life…”
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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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Web talk dog walk II
The last web talk dog walk was a success, with three of us (plus three dogs) taking in the slightly damp wilds of Sheepcote Valley.
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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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The Critters 2013
After winning the .net award two weeks ago, I really wasn’t expecting to win another award. Last night at a fun black tie, storybook-themed ubelly Critters awards, I won Next Big Thing.
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Fl*t design trend
I’m about to apply a mute filter to the word “flat” on Twitter. That or start unfollowing a lot of people.
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Speaking at Untangle the Web
Nothing quite like a last-minute post… Tonight I’m speaking at Untangle the Web at Google Campus in London. I’m doing a talk on Design Theory for the Web where I do a whistle-stop tour through designing with typography, grids and colour on the web.
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