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Penpot TutorialsColor in UI Design with Penpot!A brand-new unit just landed in the UI course with Penpot, and it’s all about color in UI design. It includes videos on how to work with color, covering color palette creation and a wide range of tips and practical techniques, such as saturating greys, designing for dark mode, and ensuring accessibility. Enjoy a mix of theory, hands-on demos, and optional assignments to immediately put what you learn into practice. Course educator Laura Kalbag also walks you through applying all of this directly in Penpot.
Get started with the course for free, or explore the new co...
2026-02-0200 minPenpot TutorialsIntro to typography design tokens | Penpot Hands-on DemoTypography can determine the success of your design system because it defines the way users experience information and engage with your product. In this demo, Laura Kalbag—developer, designer, and educator at Penpot—will introduce you to typography design tokens. She'll show how to create, apply, and name typography tokens in Penpot, and build a proportional typographic scale with ease.
Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app
App: https://design.penpot.app
Help: https://help.penpot.app
Contribute: https://github.com/penpot
Penpot Fest: https://penpotfest.org
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2026-01-2800 minPenpot TutorialsScalable UI design: tokens, components & variants | Penpot Hands-OnWhat makes a good component? How can design tokens help improve your design workflow? In this demo, Laura Kalbag, Penpot educator, will update her Penpot template "Prototype Examples", into a more modern, system-based setup. She'll convert the UI to rely on a component library, component variants, and design tokens, showing how these tools make designs easier to maintain, faster to scale, and better for team collaboration. Along the way, she'll explain when it’s worth creating components/variants, how to organize them into libraries, and how to set up tokens (color, spacing, typography), including themes.
Penpot Community: ht...
2025-12-1000 minPenpot TutorialsDesign Systems with variants | Penpot Hands-On DemoThis week marks the release of Penpot Variants, and this hands-on workshop will guide you through everything you need to know to start using them effectively. Laura Kalbag, Design and Developer Educator, we’ll begin with a quick primer on components and component libraries, then dive into creating variants: exploring how, why, and when to use them in your design work. You’ll see live demos of different use cases for variants, learn how to convert existing components into variants, and understand how to combine components and variants with design tokens to build more consistent, scalable UI designs. By the...
2025-09-2400 minPenpot TutorialsLocofy Lightning plugin with Locofy | Penpot Hands-On DemoLIVE August 21st - 3-4 PM
We’ve teamed up with Locofy to bring you a powerful plugin that turns your designs to code in a flash! Whether you’re a designer looking to better support devs or a developer aiming to speed up your workflow—this demo is for you.
Join us on August 21st for a special live hands-on demo, where you’ll see the full design-to-code journey in action, with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, CEO at Penpot, Locofy team and, as always, Laura Kalbag, educator at Penpot.
00:00 intro
07:26 Structuring a design fo...
2025-08-2100 minPenpot TutorialsPractical UI Design with tokens | Penpot Hands-On DemoLIVE: Thursday, June 26th. UTC 3-4 PM
How can we really work day-to-day with Penpot design tokens? Join Laura Kalbag, educator, designer, and developer at Penpot, for an interactive, hands-on session where she’ll walk you through creating a complete UI design using Penpot’s design tokens and our Design Tokens Starter Kit.
You'll learn how to:
Design a complete UI using a Design Tokens Starter Kit
Speed up your design workflow with design tokens
Integrate tokens into components and libraries
Edit existing tokens and create new ones
Collaborate with design tokens following best prac...
2025-06-2600 min
Tu się testuje#30: Dostępność to nie opcja - to nasza przyszłość – rozmowa z Wojtkiem KutyłąJest to wyjątkowy 30-sty odcinek podcastu Tu się Testuje! Wyjątkowy także, ponieważ występuje u nas gościnnie Wojtek Kutyła!Wojtek Kutyła - jest niezależnym konsultantem, pomaga projektować usługi i produkty cyfrowe. Przygotowuje ekspertyzy na zlecenie firm z całego świata. Jest członkiem IAAP (International Association of Accessibility Professionals). Od sześciu lat pracuje pod marką Human Thing Ltd. Prowadzi szkolenia z zakresu dostępności cyfrowej i szeroko pojętego projektowania doświadczenia użytkownika. Opowiada o inkluzywnym projektowaniu na konferencjach i w podcastach, tworzy kursy online i pi...
2025-05-111h 02Penpot TutorialsQuick intro to Design TokensNew to design tokens? Start here! In this quick introduction, Laura Kalbag, designer, developer and educator at Penpot, explains what design tokens are and their benefits for your design workflow. The video includes practical examples and demonstrates how to create design tokens in Penpot. Watch the full version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yh5vDV8vTg
Also learn more about Design Tokens in our blog: https://penpot.app/blog/what-are-design-tokens-a-complete-guide/
Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app
App: https://design.penpot.app
Help: https://help.penpot.app
Contribute: https://github...
2025-05-0600 min
Software Engineering DailyStately with Laura KalbagStately is a web-based drag and drop editor for collaboratively developing code, diagrams, and documentation. Laura Kalbag is the Developer Advocate at Stately and she joins the show today to talk about Stately, state machines, building good documentation, and more.Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as...
2024-02-291h 06
今日のデザインニュース2024-02-27 今日のデザインニュースこの音声では、話題になったデザイン関連ニュースを要約し、AIによる自動音声で紹介します。
Issue 476
Issue 476
コンテンツデザインにおけるパターンとプレイブックの力
The power of patterns and playbooks in content design
デザインマンスリーVol. 8
Design Monthly Vol. 8
日本人は声に影響を受けやすい？ 文化による感情認知の違い
日本人は声に影響を受けやすい？ 文化による感情認知の違い
100 Unique Website Footer Design Inspirationsの記事の要約
100 Unique Website Footer Design Inspirations
ジョーイ・デヴィラさんとのインフォームド・ライフ
The Informed Life with Joey deVilla
プライバシー設計の基本
The fundamental of designing for privacy
リターン - カラーで解放する。 ローラ・カルバックさん
Throwback – Letting Loose with Color. By Laura Kalbag
2024-02-2704 min
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web DevelopmentArt of the state machineAmal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.
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2023-11-301h 13Changelog Master FeedArt of the state machine (JS Party #303)Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.
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2023-11-301h 13
Working DraftRevision 576: QwikIn dieser Episode diskutieren Vanessa und Stefan mit ihrem Gast Bernhard Mayr (Twitter) über das Thema Qwik.
Fronteers Konferenz
Schepp lädt Euch ein, die von ihm mit-organisierte und nicht gewinnorientierte Fronteers Konferenz am 21. und 22. September im niederländischen Utrecht zu besuchen.Es kommen Andy Bell, Lea Verou, Zach Leatherman, Sara Vieira, Laura Kalbag und viele mehr und die Talks behandeln keinerlei aktuelle Frameworks, sondern betrachten jeweils bestimmte Aspekte der Web Plattform oder des Web Craftings. Es geht um neue Color Spaces, Web Components, Performance, Accessibility, Privacy, 3D und sogar LEDs :)
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2023-07-051h 37Working DraftRevision 574: Glücksrad (Applet, Headings, Slots, SVGs, Spellcheck, Screen-API,
Border-Images, Indexed DB)Schepp, Hans, und Peter ließen mal wieder das Glücksrad kreisen!
Fronteers Konferenz
Schepp lädt Euch ein, die von ihm mit-organisierte und nicht gewinnorientierte Fronteers Konferenz am 21. und 22. September im niederländischen Utrecht zu besuchen.Es kommen Andy Bell, Lea Verou, Zach Leatherman, Sara Vieira, Laura Kalbag und viele mehr und die Talks behandeln keinerlei aktuelle Frameworks, sondern betrachten jeweils bestimmte Aspekte der Web Plattform oder des Web Craftings. Es geht um neue Color Spaces, Web Components, Performance, Accessibility, Privacy, 3D und sogar LEDs :)
Ein Ticket für die zwei Tage liegt...
2023-06-211h 04
Disability BandwidthAngie Rajani, CPACCDo you care and want to change things? Join us for an insightful conversation with Angie Rajani, CPACC, an inclusive design strategist with expertise in digital accessibility. In this episode, we delve into the nuances of working in government versus corporate settings, as well as the inspiration behind Angie's work. We also tackle important questions, such as whether accessibility should be included in DEI initiatives and how to approach intersectionality. And if you're curious about the connection between cake and understanding people's identities, you won't want to miss this episode! Plus, we'll explore co-designing and how it can lead to m...
2023-03-0952 min
The InclusionHub PodcastEpisode 8: Necessary EvilsIn this episode of The InclusionHub Podcast, host Sam Proulx resets the table, so to speak, returning to several critical yet rarely articulated insights shared by guests of our inaugural drop, and re-evaluating where we are as a society in the collective quest toward true digital accessibility and inclusion, for all. Among those: that the web is broken—impacted by what Sam describes as “flat-out greed.” All this has created a lucrative cottage industry that’s most recently enriching itself off an ongoing mass scramble by businesses to comply with critical laws passed to help rectify such disparit...
2022-11-2424 minThe InclusionHub PodcastEpisode 5: Nothing About Us Without UsThroughout our series, our host Sam Proulx and our many extraordinary guests have stressed this critical requirement. From Judith Heumann sharing her experiences spearheading many of the key disability rights protests of the ‘60s and ‘70s to Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins recounting her pivotal participation in the Capitol Crawl to help force the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), “Nothing About Us Without Us” has remained at their core. In this extraordinary episode of The InclusionHub Podcast, we delve even deeper into its meaning and ongoing application in the fight for a fully accessible web. We’re honored, o...
2022-09-2223 minThe InclusionHub PodcastEpisode 1: Accessibility by DefaultWelcome to the inaugural episode of The InclusionHub Podcast. InclusionHub launched in December 2020 with the express purpose of building an online community to help make the digital world a more accessible and inclusive place. We’re under no illusion that dramatically changing the infrastructure and design of the digital world will be easy, but we’re committed to doing our part to ensure anyone, regardless of disability or socioeconomic status, has easy access to the greater online ecosystem. What Is The InclusionHub Podcast? Today, on the 32nd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (A...
2022-07-2628 min
Next in NonprofitsFederated communication ”Fediverse” with Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan is co-founder of Small Technology Foundation, which is promoting "everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits." Aral and his Small Technology co-founder Laura Kalbag have been advocating for regulation of surveillance capitalism, investment in ethical alternatives, and carrying out research and development on ethical alternatives.
Aral joins host Steve Boland to discuss decentralized social communication tools for nonprofit organizations (and everyone else!). Aral talks about federated communications tools (the Fediverse) like Mastodon (microblogging like Twitter but without corporate ownership), PixelFed (more image focused like Instagram...
2022-07-1246 min
UX Podcast#290 Web3 with Laura KalbagWeb3 is a term that’s getting a lot of attention, along with associated concepts such as blockchain, crypto, NFTs. There are a lot of concepts and phrases to understand, some of them quite technical, before we can get to the question of what benefits they can deliver. Laura Kalbag joins us to help us gain...
2022-06-0300 min
UX Podcast#290 Web3 with Laura KalbagWeb3 is a term that’s getting a lot of attention, along with associated concepts such as blockchain, crypto, NFTs. There are a lot of concepts and phrases to understand, some of them quite technical, before we can get to the question of what benefits they can deliver. Laura Kalbag joins us to help us gain...
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2022-06-0348 min
Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦Laura Kalbag - Accessible, Inclusive, and Ethical DesignLaura Kalbag calls on businesses using people’s data for profit to examine the ethics of that model, and talks practical inclusive design and digital accessibility.
Highlights include:
⭐ How are accessibility and inclusive design different?
⭐ What does the inaccessible state of the web say about technologists?
⭐ What’s wrong with companies profiting from our behavioural data?
⭐ Why have you gone to great lengths to live up to your values?
⭐ What can we do to help our organisations to make more ethical decisions?
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2022-02-211h 14
Digital Freedom: Privacy & FLOSS talksLe problematiche della privacy e le soluzioni possibili [SUB ITA] Laura Kalbag e Aral Balkan @ThinkAbout! Colonia 05/19Imperdibile conferenza di Laura e Aral all'evento ThinkAbout a Colonia (Germania) su Facebook, Google, le problematiche della privacy e le possibile soluzioni.
Dato che i sottotitoli sono creati da me, vi prego di segnalarmi eventuali errori e li correggerò.
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Original Post: https://small-tech.org/videos/
2021-12-1800 min
Digital Freedom: Privacy & FLOSS talksLe problematiche della privacy e le soluzioni possibili [SUB ITA] Laura Kalbag e Aral Balkan @ThinkAbout! Colonia 05/19Imperdibile conferenza di Laura e Aral all'evento ThinkAbout a Colonia (Germania) su Facebook, Google, le problematiche della privacy e le possibile soluzioni.
Dato che i sottotitoli sono creati da me, vi prego di segnalarmi eventuali errori e li correggerò.
** If you want me to add any other subtitles, please send me the .srt file and I'll upload them giving you a credit in this description. You can always re-use them if you want to upload the video to another platform with your subtitles. Let's share the knowledge. Thanks! **
Original Post: https://small-tech.org/videos/
2021-12-1800 min
Digital Freedom: Privacy & FLOSS talksLe problematiche della privacy e le soluzioni possibili [SUB ITA] Laura Kalbag e Aral Balkan @ThinkAbout! Colonia 05/19Imperdibile conferenza di Laura e Aral all'evento ThinkAbout a Colonia (Germania) su Facebook, Google, le problematiche della privacy e le possibile soluzioni.
Dato che i sottotitoli sono creati da me, vi prego di segnalarmi eventuali errori e li correggerò.
** If you want me to add any other subtitles, please send me the .srt file and I'll upload them giving you a credit in this description. You can always re-use them if you want to upload the video to another platform with your subtitles. Let's share the knowledge. Thanks! **
Original Post: https://small-tech.org/videos/
2021-12-1800 min
Kopi OverflowEp 11 - Form design is a hard software development problemThis episode we talk about form design, why form design matters, good form design practices and just complaining about bad forms and banks in general.
Show Notes:
Form design: Best practice, research insights and examples: https://gerireid.com/forms.html
The 3 guideline parameters that Long mentioned near the end comes from “Accessibility for Everyone” by Laura Kalbag.
2021-09-2629 min
The Clearleft PodcastAccessibility
Join Laura Kalbag, Léonie Watson, and Cassie Evans as they dive into accessibility on the web. And experience what it’s like to use a screen reader to navigate a website.
2021-02-2414 min
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry ScullionLaura Kalbag 'Privacy & Accessibility for Everyone'Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers and much more.
Today on the show, we have Laura Kalbag, a wonderful Designer and co-founder of Small Technology Foundation, an organisation focussed on building a more rights-respecting web. They’ve p...
2020-12-1929 min
Bringing Design CloserLaura Kalbag 'Privacy & Accessibility for Everyone'Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers and much more.
Today on the show, we have Laura Kalbag, a wonderful Designer and co-founder of Small Technology Foundation, an organisation focussed on building a more rights-respecting web. They’ve p...
2020-12-1928 min
This is HCD – Human-Centered Design, UX & Service Design Thinking PodcastLaura Kalbag 'Privacy & Accessibility for Everyone'If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter. Design Smarter. Lead Better.Interested in training for your organisation with This is HCD? Let's speak by booking a 15-minute call.Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers and muc...
2020-12-1929 min
Opacity24. Accessible AnalogiesAccessibility and usability are core to our profession. Despite this fact, they often don't take center stage. Many designers even feel that putting too much emphasis on them can take away from pushing creative boundaries. In this episode, Tom and Craig chat about the tensions that exist between these aspects of our profession. We all love a good analogy. So why not explore how these topics can be further understood through the analogy of construction, architecture, and interior design? Check out Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag (one of our fellow Ireland based designers!) for a...
2020-10-1236 min
Smashing PodcastWhat is Online Privacy? with Laura KalbagWe’re talking about online privacy. What should web developers be doing to make sure the privacy of our users is maintained? Drew McLellan talks to an expert on the subject, Laura Kalbag, to find out.
2020-04-0744 min
PresentablePresentable Live from the New Adventures Conference, Part 2This is part two of a special episode of Presentable recorded live in front of an audience at the New Adventures conference in Nottingham, England. It is a roundtable conversation with the event's speakers: Liz Jackson, Laura Kalbag, Florence Okoye, Tatiana Mac
This episode of Presentable is sponsored by:
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Guest Starring: Tatiana Mac, Florence Okoye, Laura Kalbag, and Liz Jackson
Links and Show Notes:
2020-01-3132 minWorking DraftOn Tour @ #thinkabout19 1/5 with Laura Kalbag & Aral BalkanThis interview is part of a five-piece series: On Tour @ #thinkabout19.
In May we attended the Think About Conference – a new conference in Cologne Ehrenfeld about design and developmentand the influence and, as a fresh take, the impact of both on our society. And they nailed it! The two-track conference was extremely well organised and received, and it was stunning to see how much attention went into the details. All in all the set high expectation for the upcoming years!
[00:08:04] Laura Kalbag & Aral Balkan: Small Tech
Laura and Aral’s topic of heart is s...
2019-07-1530 min
Cloud Reachers - conversations on the Future of LearningCloud Reachers S01E02: On Accessible Design with Laura Kalbag, hosted by Tomi KauppinenCloud Reachers is all about the future of learning, and the changing roles of teachers and learners. Hosted by Tomi Kauppinen and Miikka J. Lehtonen from the Finland-based multidisciplinary Aalto University.Inspiring educators and education designers all over the world are creating engaging learning settings and experiences. In Cloud Reachers podcast we sit down with experts to discuss what they are doing to push the envelope on transforming learning across different organizations.
2019-07-0534 min
Cloud Reachers - conversations on the Future of Learning2. On accessible design with Laura Kalbag, hosted by Tomi KauppinenInspiring educators and education designers all over the world are creating engaging learning settings and experiences. In Cloud Reachers podcast we sit down with experts to discuss what they are doing to push the envelope on transforming learning across different organizations.
2019-07-0500 min
UX Podcast#211 Disruptive design patterns with Laura KalbagLaura Kalbag, author of Accessibility for Everyone, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about accessibility and also disruptive design patterns.
2019-05-2400 min
The Elastic BrandS1 Ep 3 - Laura Kalbag on ethical design, inclusivity and accessibility, and diversityIn this episode Laura and Liz discuss ethical brand design, toxic technology and dark patterns, the need for tech industry diversity, accessibility and inclusivity, how we can be more ethical as designers, how we need to make sure we are working with ethical companies and lots more
2019-02-0446 min
Strong FeelingsUnbothered with Laura KalbagWriting a book is hard. Writing a book as a woman in tech is even harder. So what happens when some mansplainer comes along to rain on your well-earned parade? Laura Kalbag tells us about how she found the courage to write, why listening to women reminds her of what’s important, and how she keeps her cool even in the face of jerks.
Laura is a designer and the cofounder of Ind.ie, a not-for-profit that works on protecting people’s rights in the digital age—and the author of Accessibility for Everyone. She works tirelessly to cha...
2018-11-2751 min
CodeNewbieS3:E4 - What should developers know about online privacy? (Laura Kalbag)Many companies use cookies, tracking, and behavioral ads to help them sell more things. But it also means they collect a lot of data on what we do and who we are, raising online privacy concerns. What does that mean for developers? Laura Kalbag explains how those tools work and what we as developers should think about when building our own products. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) GDPR Piwik Fast Mail Proton Mail cookies Better How Companies Use Personal Data Against People Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Laura KalbagLaura Kalbag is a...
2018-02-1945 min
Digital Mindfulness#96 Ethical Data & Design with Laura Kalbag#96 Ethical Data & Design with Laura Kalbag by Digital Mindfulness
2018-02-1838 minPresentableAccessibility is Social JusticeThis week on the show, we talk to Laura Kalbag about her new book, Accessibility for Everyone. We discuss how digital products have an increasing mandate to be broadly usable by everyone in society, and what we can do to achieve better accessibility in our designs.
This episode of Presentable is sponsored by:
Timing: The automatic time tracking app for macOS. Use this link to get 10% off your purchase of Timing.
Guest Starring: Laura Kalbag
Links and Show Notes A Book Apart: Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag
2017-09-0743 min
Non Breaking Space ShowLaura Kalbag — Accessibility for EveryoneLaura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.
This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now!
UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free n...
2017-08-2232 min
Non Breaking Space ShowLaura Kalbag — Accessibility for Everyone
Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.
This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now!
UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsle...
2017-08-2200 min
Unfinished Business‘Jingle Bell Rock’ with Anna DebenhamThis week is the one-hundredth episode of Unfinished Business and who better to join me than the person who helped me start it all, almost two years ago, Anna Debenham. We celebrate by talking about what went right and wrong in 2014 and our resolutions for 2015. Then we talk about meetings and how we can improve them.
This being the final episode of the year, I’d like to say an enormous thank-you to everyone I’ve spoken to on Unfinished Business, this year: Ashley Baxter, Benjamin Hollway, Brendan Dawes, Christopher Murphy, Cole Henley, Clare Symons, Harry Roberts, Jere...
2014-12-211h 15
Unfinished Business‘Made in Scotland from girders’ with Ashley Baxter and Laura KalbagIt’s a special week this week on Unfinished Business as I’m joined by not one, but two regular co-hosts, Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag. In a bumper episode, we talk about cakes, brightly coloured fizzy drinks and Yorkshire pudding burgers. We discuss podcasting, sounding good as a podcast guest, then whether we allow Christmas decorations in our offices. Finally we talk about what we’ve achieved this year and what our goals are for 2015. It’s a fast and fun episode. I think you’ll really enjoy it.
We’re sponsored this week by MacRabbit’s Espresso and...
2014-11-291h 24
About A Minute – Terence Eden’s BlogAbout A Minute – Introducing Ind.ieI had a chat with Laura Kalbag, one of the designers at Ind.ie. If you’re interested in helping build platforms and phones which are free of corporate spyware – please donate to their crowdfunding campaign. Get About A Minute as soon as each episode goes live. Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher Or you…
2014-11-1400 min
Unfinished Business‘Burger in a donut’ with Laura KalbagThis week’s an emotional episode of Unfinished Business. After talking about why a burger in a donut should never, ever have become a thing, Laura Kalbag and I discuss mental health issues in our industry. We talk about my own struggles with depression and depersonalisation disorder, issues that stem from my father’s own mental health issues and suicide.
2014-10-051h 00
Unfinished Business‘Slightly sticky bottoms’ with Laura KalbagLaura Kalbag and Ashley Baxter did a wonderful job hosting Unfinished Business for the last three weeks and this week Laura hands it back to me.
We talk about how we interpret the ‘business’ theme of Unfinished Business differently and how that changes the focus of the podcast. As we’re both small business owners and we’ve both been on holiday recently, we discuss how we handle keeping on top of business while we’re away from it. How we handle email and client enquiries and even work that going on while we’re away. Finally we talk abou...
2014-08-261h 08
Unfinished BusinessLove a good pep talkAshley Baxter and Laura Kalbag are back for their final takeover episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about using social media for your business and whether writing and speaking are a scalable part of your business model. We had a couple of questions from Shane Hudson and Simon MacFadyen on forcing yourself out of your comfort zone and advice to a designer just starting out.
This episode is sponsored by Espresso and Native Summit. You can get a 10% discount on Espresso with the offer code unfinished. Native Summit are giving away 20 free tickers to the first 20 listeners...
2014-08-171h 01
Unfinished BusinessDo you have a dinosaur onesie?Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag are back again for this week’s episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about the common myths around working for yourself, particularly as a solo entity working from home. We have some great questions from Elliot Davis, Simon Cox, and Shane Prendergast, resulting in us talking about photo manipulation and what do we both want to achieve before we retire?
This episode is sponsored by GatherContent and SimplyFixIt. You can get 20% off your subscription to GatherContent forever with the offer code unfinished. You can get 10% off any iPhone or iPad repair with Si...
2014-08-101h 10
Unfinished BusinessI wonder why he trusts us?While Andy’s on holiday, Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag take over this week’s episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about all things business insurance, including public liability, professional indemnity, business contents and copyright infringement. And it’s not boring, honest!
This episode is sponsored by Devicelab, Perch and dConstruct. Get your ticket to dConstruct for only £125+VAT (£150) when you use the offer code unfinished.
2014-08-031h 07
Unfinished BusinessBig Bad Boy Breakfast BapA slight change of format for this week’s Unfinished Business. Laura Kalbag wanted to know our experiences of working with our partners—she’s just started working with hers—so she emailed Sue some questions. I hadn’t heard her answers until Laura read them on the show, but I think that makes for interesting listening. I’ll publish Sue’s full answers on Stuff and Nonsense later on in the week.
Thanks to our sponsors this week, they were Gather Contentand Forge. As always, you can support Unfinished Business by supporting them.
2014-06-091h 12
Unfinished BusinessRubbish at podcastingOn Unfinished Business this week, and with us both fresh from the Net Awards, Laura Kalbag and I talk about our experiences there. I explain why I don’t feel at home in the web design industry as it is today and how its conversations no longer reflect my interests in design.
After last week’s ‘giant’ misunderstanding about speaker fees, we also talk about the responsibilities that speakers have to themselves, to an audience and to an event and the people who’ve organised it. It’s a lively discussion. We talk about swearing, why private agreements b...
2014-05-111h 28
Unfinished BusinessA great big dollop of hindsightOn this week’s Unfinished Business I’m joined by not one, but two guests to keep me out of trouble, Laura Kalbag and marathon runner Rachel Andrew. We talk about the fallout from last week’s news that publisher Five Simple Steps has closed, what this means for other niche publishers and for the authors who write for them.
We talk about how the abrupt announcement of the closure could’ve been handled better and the lessons we might learn to help us in the future. Finally, we break down how advances and royalties work differently between...
2014-04-131h 20
Unfinished BusinessAdonis kebabOn this week’s Unfinished Business, Laura Kalbag and I talk about the business of speaking at conferences, why it’s essential to be paid to speak and the importance of contracts that cover the paying of expenses, who owns the content of a talk and what conferences can do with that content after the event.
This week’s amazing sponsors are the Scotch On The Rocks conference and Macrabbit’s Espresso. Get 10% off your copy of my favourite code editor using the offer code unfinished.
2014-03-2355 min
Unfinished BusinessCowabunga!Laura Kalback, Kalbang, Kalbung, Cowabunga! Kalbag is back on Unfinished Business this week and we talk about her troubles at her bank and how changing your name once you’ve built an online persona might be a challenge. We follow up on our previous conversation about business ethics, then discuss how much time is reasonable to spend on researching requirements to provide a client estimate.
This week’s sponsors are the Scotch On The Rocks conference that’s happening in the beautiful Scottish capital Edinburgh on June 5th and 6th, and Espresso. Listeners of this show can get a...
2014-02-2358 min
Unfinished BusinessStalinist bus stationLaura Kalbag is back on Unfinished Business this week to talk about how far in advance we book client projects and what we you do if a client wants more work done, but we’ve other work booked for the next few months? We discuss upping our day rates and how Laura’s client suggested she charge more.
No Unfinished Business would be complete without talk of pirates and smugglers and the Milton Keynes Geek Night All Dayer conference which took place last week.
Thanks to our sponsors for this episode, they are Hammer For Mac...
2014-01-261h 15
Unfinished BusinessTrapped in a jarFor this, the fiftieth episode of Unfinished Business, I’m joined by regular guest Laura Kalbag. We talk about ethical statements and whether we, and the companies that people work for, should set out what they will and won’t work on our websites.
I would like to say an enormous thank-you to Anna Debenham for helping me get started with this podcast. To all our guests and sponsors for making the show possible and to you, our listeners for being lovely people. I’d like to wish you all a very happy Christmas holiday.
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2013-12-2250 min
Unfinished BusinessLove me like a reptileOn this week’s Unfinished Business, regular co-host Laura Kalbag and I talked candidly about hosting workshops and whether they make commercial sense and how we make money from them. Laura asked me about choosing Stuff and Nonsense for our business name and we talked about how people can make the best, first impression when you write to us. (Sorry for Laura’s audio quality. We’ll try to do better next time.)
Thanks to our sponsor, Blush, beautiful letterpress printing of cards, stationery and more for designers and artists. Support Unfinished Business by supporting them.
2013-11-111h 30
Unfinished BusinessIt's not Narnia, you can get there by trainBack from his holidays, all tanned and gorgeous (obviously,) Andy rejoins Anna to talk about Laura Kalbag’s ‘Good Designers, Good Clients’ article on A List Apart. They discuss how Andy was inspired by Seth Godin to start speaking again and the best bits from the last three episodes including our ‘double our day rate Fridays,’ Sarah’s approach to handling low budget enquiries and the problem of doing work under NDA and having little to show for it in your portfolio.
Thanks to our sponsor, Ghostlab — Synchronized cross-browser and mobile testing taken to the next level. Get 30% off at...
2013-09-011h 04
The Freelance WebChat with Laura KalbagThis week Liz talks to Brighton based freelancer and .Net magazine’s ‘Brilliant Newcomer 2013′ award winner Laura Kalbag. They discuss finding work, pricing and more.
2013-06-1333 min
Unfinished BusinessThey were making a noise that only dogs can hearAnna and Andy talk about their worst business mistakes and disasters, what went wrong on the worst client projects and what they learned from them. Andy also wants to know why his hotel’s housekeeping steals his soap, plus there are confessions galore about shampoo, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
This week the show’s sponsored by Smashing Magazine’s CSS3 For Responsive Design workshop with Andy Clarke. It’s happening in Freiburg in Germany on June 25th. Save 15% off the ticket price with the offer code unfinished6.
And Revolution. Revolution is a conference being held in...
2013-06-021h 03
Unfinished BusinessWould you like a little more Star Trek with your lens flareWhile Anna’s away in Amsterdam, Andy talks with designer Laura Kalbag about Star Trek Into Darkness, how they name wifi networks and whether location really affects their businesses. They discuss about how to find good sub-contractors and the differences between working for clients direct or via third-parties.
This episode is sponsored by Slide + Stage — become a better presenter with this full-day, intensive masterclass with Aral Balkan. If you’re one of the first twenty people to use our special URL, you’ll get £20 off your ticket price. And by Ghostlab — ‘Synchronized cross-browser and mobile testing taken to the next l...
2013-05-191h 05
Unfinished BusinessHow heavy is a wet sheep?While Anna is en vacance en France, Andrew’s joined by guest co-host, designer Laura Kalbag to talk about mentoring students and how to give them, and other newcomers, valuable commercial project experience. Laura also talks about how best to ask for, and deal with, client feedback while Andrew remembers Mickey, the world’s cleverest chimpanzee. This episode is sponsored by Blush, beautiful letterpress printing of cards, stationery and more for designers and artists and Beyond Tellerrand a conference and workshop event for the web community. Beyond Tellerrand is happening May 27th to the 29th in Düsseldorf in Germa...
2013-03-311h 29Working DraftRevision 100: Anniversary with Paul IrishWow, can it really be the 100th episode already? Almost 2 years of weekly updates and discussions on web development – and we’re still here. And so no one less than Paul Irish joined Hans, Kahlil, Rodney and Schepp. While our podcast is a German thing, we’re thrilled how things turned out with recording an English episode over the wire. Thank you Paul!
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