Last night I was one of three women on a panel all about transitioning into tech. The panel was hosted by Girl Develop It Wilmington and it was lovely to get out of the house and socialize. I absolutely hate to iron clothes (I suspect this is a side effect…

So I’ve been reading a lot of UX books again recently and have been thoroughly enjoying myself for the most part. I find that more and more my focus is shifting back to strategy and research (much like when I was a grant writer—full circle) over visual…

Style guides are very challenging to build, though the initial idea of creating one always sounds like a total dream. You have to create a bunch of components that are completely flexible, preferably CSS only, are well documented, and perform well across browsers. But they greatly contribute to brand consistency…

Since the spring I have been working with an amazing group of women to bring ELA Conf, a conference all about empowering women to be leaders in tech, to life. After working on this most of the year this event finally took place in Philadelphia, PA on November 20th and…

Girl Develop It has officially come to Wilmington, DE. I recently teamed up with some amazing local women to bring the organization to Delaware. While there was no shortage of enthusiasm from our team or Wilmington businesses, we initially couldn’t get around a mid 2016 launch due to lack…

For whatever reason I seem to fall face-first into odd, unexpected text wrapping issues more often than I'd like. I wrote an ebook and wrangling the text wrapping within the blocks of code was a nightmare. Sometimes the height of a block of text is higher than its restrictive container.…