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Ollie Barker
North East, UK Designer at Big Bite Creative Joined over 2 years ago
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- Now Streaming for Free! "Design and Exclusion: A remote conference on design and exclusion" (x.design.blog)
- Spacetime helps your distributed team share their work hours with ease. (spacetime.am)
- CSSPeeper - Smart CSS viewer tailored for Designers. (csspeeper.com)
- Show DN: GridGuide
- Finding your Design Buddies (medium.com)
- Ask DN: Are you utilising any version control system with Sketch?
- Want to create your wireframes in ASCII? Now you can. (asciiflow.com)
- High-Fidelity Collaboration and Design Philosophy at Intercom (medium.com)
- Ask DN: Shall we stop referring to our agencies as 'leading' and 'award-winning'?
- The Elephant In The Room: Work has dried up. (sazzy.co.uk)
Posted to Minimal Portfolio — Need Feedback, Sep 25, 2017 Posted to Was Sketch designed on Figma / Figma designed on Sketch? , in reply to Dylan Field , Sep 25, 2017 
Posted to Fellow designers, What's your typical day like?, in reply to Interested Curious , Sep 20, 2017 Just haven't been enjoying the work nearly as much as I used to recently. Lack of opportunities (catch 22) to work with teams doing the sort of product work I want to do.
Posted to Which mouse do you use for designing on Mac?, Sep 19, 2017 Magic Mouse. Never had any issues with it and multi-touch is great.
Posted to Dive into the details of iOS 11: Is Apple still detail-oriented?, in reply to John P , Sep 19, 2017 
Posted to Fellow designers, What's your typical day like?, Sep 19, 2017 Varies day per day but today it's just an internal debate about whether I want to be in this industry anymore or not.
Posted to Dive into the details of iOS 11: Is Apple still detail-oriented?, Sep 18, 2017 They definitely seem to have lost their edge. Though I'd be interested if there are any articles around the iOS5-6 time that discuss something similar.
Posted to Can anyone tell me cool design podcasts?, in reply to Mike Wilson , Sep 08, 2017 Haha it is. It seems a lot of people decide to create a podcast but they don't really think about whether they should. Whether it'd actually add any value to the industry.
Podcasts like 99% Invisible, Design Matters and ShopTalk (dev I know) are the ones I recommend for our industry.
Posted to Can anyone tell me cool design podcasts?, Sep 07, 2017 Layout.fm is good. Be careful though, there are a lot of design podcasts that really are just waffle and don't communicate anything worthwhile.
Posted to Where did you find your desktop wallpaper?, Aug 30, 2017 System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Custom Color...
- Dive into the details of iOS 11: Is Apple still detail-oriented? (medium.com)
- Not so Essential phone (medium.com)
- Dead Domains — Share domains you are not using (dead.domains)
- A better PNG minifer
- Contrast — A macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios (usecontrast.com)
- @DannPetty Show — Things In My Office Under $20, Practice, The Unsplash Sweatshirt, and Abstract (youtu.be)
- @DannPetty Show — The Gradients Feature, Criticism, and Beautiful Calculators (youtube.com)
- Abstract (goabstract.com)
- LastPass - An Unsolicited Redesign (medium.com)
- Numi · Calculator app for Mac you will love to use (numi.io)
Really nice! Love the hovers. My only real thoughts after a quick browse, would be that I think the heading type could do with some more letter spacing. Feels a little to squished for me.