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Design Feast Designer’s Quest(ionnaire)
Design Feast have my answers to their Designer’s Quest(ionnaire) on their site. Scroll past the scarily large photo of me quickly… their questions prompted me to think about some interesting points, especially challenges for designers:
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Mentoring a project: finding the right people
We’ve got a project! I’ll elaborate on the details of the project in a future post, but the importance of having a project was that it’s allowed me to choose the designers/developers who could get something out of being mentees.
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Using emoji in Mail.app to make better visual indicators
After reading this brilliant Mac App Storm post on Turning Mail.app Into the Best Mac Email App, I was inspired to follow a lot of the tips to make my emails easier to handle.
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The East Wing podcast
Yesterday I was a guest on Tim Smith‘s The East Wing podcast. It was a pre-recorded conversation and it was great fun.
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Women and conferences
I used to not understand the fuss around women at conferences, I thought that we should all just carry on with what we were doing well already and not get caught up in needless controversy.
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Live-designing WordPress Admin Icons
A while ago I wrotea post about how I was going to do a talk at WordPress London where I would try to design a WordPress admin icon live.
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Mentoring a project: the right project
This post is an update on my mentoring project idea. Finding the right project If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen that I’m now looking for a different project to work on.
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Mentoring a project: the idea
A couple of days ago, a potential project turned up in my inbox. An old school friend wants a website, needs it soon and doesn’t have a huge budget.
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The Sharers on The Branch
I’ve written a post over on The Branch.
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A loveletter
Note: I wrote this a while ago when I was thinking about the things that made me want to work on the web.
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