Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 351 | Laura Elizabeth - Designing Life
Guest:
Laura Elizabeth talks with Dave Rael about lifestyle, passion, learning, designing software and websites, and teaching
Laura Elizabeth is a designer with a hankering for cross stitch and rockets. She runs Design Academy which aims to help developers conquer their fear of design. She's also launched her first product called Client Portal—a client-friendly way to keep your projects organised.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Laura Elizabeth
- - Design for developers
- - Reuse in both development and design
- - Laura's lifestyle and devotion to her craft
- - Laura's path to learning how to really design, identifying the elements she learned, and becoming an educator
- - What is taught in (Laura's) schooling for designers and the inherent deficiency
- - Making sense of good design
- - The content of what Laura teaches
- - The barriers to creating Laura's first course and long path to getting there
- - Laura's story of failure - freelancing woes
- - The idea that became Client Portal and the process of turning that into a product
- - Laura's natural relationship with developers
- - Laura's book recommendation
- - The importance of noticing good design and building a cache of knowing what you like
- - Laura's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Laura
Resources:
Laura's book recommendation:
Laura's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Share everything you're doing
- Don't underestimate what people don't know - you don't have to know everything to provide value
- Always think about your target audience and what they want and think about - and ask them and listen to what they tell you
