Interview with a Princess

So, a few weeks ago I had the great opportunity to chat to Josh Kinal and the gang at The Nudge Melbourne about the relationship between designers and developers. If you’re interested in such things, and perhaps curious what an Australian Kiwi accent sounds like… well, you can check it out here…

http://thenudge.com.au/episode5/

Before the interview I had put together a few thoughts by way of a wishlist from devs for designers on slideshare too… wade in with comments if you’ve anything to add or you think I got it horribly wrong! All (reasonable) opinions welcome!!

WordCamp Sydney | July 21-22 2012

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It wasn’t really a heat of the moment thing… All the way through WordCamp Gold Coast all I could think about was… we need a WordCamp in Sydney, it’s been way too long. And blow me down if there weren’t other people at #wcgold thinking the same thing.

So we talked about it over a couple of beers (as you do) and the idea kept getting more compelling so we came home from the conference and we read the instructions and muggins here filled out the form and applied.

So, now I can wear the WordCamp organiser badge… you know, if there were such a thing.

My Signature Video

It’s a miracle… the Web Princess has her very own signature Big Bang Theory clip…

Fanboy (ok, girl), Moi?

I regularly get asked by people whether they should switch to Mac when they’re needing to upgrade their gear. I didn’t always use Mac and my initial impetus to switch actually came at the hands of my boss who actually made it possible for me to get a work supplied Mac (in return for becoming the onsite expert in all things Mac). So do I always recommend making the switch?

Flash Banners.

I’ve been getting some work lately from designers who are wholly familiar with the world of print design but who, being less familiar with the constraints of web designing and development are leaping into the web pool with mixed results.  It seemed as though it might be useful to outline a couple of the differences [...]