Tag: clients
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Mentoring a project: the project
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”) In the previous posts, I mentioned that I was going to explain the details of the project later on.
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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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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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Grid Frameworks and why I’m not keen on them…
I’ve written a post for 12 Devs of Xmas on Grid Frameworks. After spending months whining about grid frameworks, 960.gs and Bootstrap, I’ve finally backed up my tweet-sized complaints with some context and examples.
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Insites Tour Brighton
Insites is a mini tour of four cities in the UK where Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks present discussions with well-known people from the web/tech industry.
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Design work is 50% visual, 50% justification
After I finished my last post about Design Tips for Developers, it really struck me how much I wrote to justify my design.
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Stuck on a design
After discussing Dribbble and Forrst, and my latest post that looked at criticism in design, I’ve been thinking a lot more about how feedback features in my design process.
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Me vs We
There’s something that’s been niggling at me for ages. The way people act as if they’re a multi-person company when they’re really just one individual.
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Year One
It’s been a whole year since I officially started working as a freelance designer last August. I graduated from uni, had a brief fling with some full-time remote working, had an awkward interview with a recruiter and then decided that I’d rather give it a go by myself.
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