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Nicole Dominguez
Senior Product Designer & Front End Developer @ Sawhorse Media Joined about 10 years ago via an invitation from Tim S. Nicole has invited Garth Braithwaite
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- Site Design: The Shorty Awards (shortyawards.com)
- "Design, Dribbble and Greatness": Your Dribble Metrics are Bullshit (medium.com)
Posted to Ask DN: Where are all the UI engineers?, Sep 01, 2016 Posted to We Fucked Up, in reply to Jake Lazaroff , Oct 09, 2015 That's not the original, that's a post made in response to the original.
Posted to We Fucked Up, Oct 09, 2015 I was one of the first people to bring this issue up, before DN even really announced the t-shirts.
I'm a woman, and the reason this is important and worth talking about is because of the tone and attitude DN seems to take when choosing to offer only Mens shirts. Even if the shirts were indeed "unisex", they were consciously labeled as shirts for Men, not just shirts. As other women on this thread have mentioned, one of the repercussions of the t-shirt fiasco was that it creates a space that is not safe or welcoming for women.
Granted, I doubt DN had those intentions - or any bad intentions for that matter. But this is a community, a community where we should be able to challenge the status quo and expect more from ourselves and leadership.
Should we just accept the microaggressions, saying nothing about inequality?
Should we not expect more from DN, from ourselves?
Maybe talking about this kind of stuff will show decision makers and leaders that sexism in tech is real. Worth being concerned about. Worth trying to fix.
Posted to I'm 18 and need help branding myself., Jul 11, 2015 Word of advice:
Your age literally has nothing to do with your skillset, talent, or ability to do good work. It will only bring you down; don't mention it at all.
Posted to Show DN: mlist - a better way to read email newsletters. , Jul 11, 2015 This sounds amazing!
Posted to Show DN: Group lunch orders were hectic, so I made Food Run!, in reply to KQ Dreger , May 22, 2015 In our office, we cut off orders after a certain amount of time, b/c the lunches are scheduled and we need to place the order by a certain time so it can arrive on time.
Posted to Show DN: Group lunch orders were hectic, so I made Food Run!, May 22, 2015 This is cool, just sent around to my coworkers!
Posted to Buffalo - A clean, minimalistic blog platform, in reply to Kyle Mitchell , May 18, 2015 Another blogging platform that Drew Wilson made previously:
https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2013/10/a-short-interview-with-drew-wilson-co-creator-of-roon.html
Posted to Buffalo - A clean, minimalistic blog platform, May 15, 2015 is this not what Roon was supposed to be?
- Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI pattern library (medium.com)
- Stock photos of women of color in tech, now free to use. (flickr.com)
- Medium.com serves Roboto on Android devices and San Francisco on iOS devices.
- Instead of buying a men’s shirt you’ll eventually throw out, put $30 here (girlswhocode.com)
- Say Hello to Designer News 2.0
- Is anyone else noticing this more in Chrome lately?
- Should I work for free? (shouldiworkforfree.com)
- The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?” (css-tricks.com)
- Site Design: Kentucky Fried Chicken (kfc.com)
- You can now embed interactive Marvel prototypes on Medium (medium.com)
These kinds of designers most likely already have great jobs, don't live in New York, or aren't willing to work full time. I just moved from NYC but half of my time there was spent as a freelancer. I actually found it difficult to find a front-end development position that was mostly geared towards modular Sass, styleguides, large-scale css, etc.