Andy Clarke
Andy runs Stuff and Nonsense, a small website design studio based in North Wales which has made a big name for itself by designing fantastic websites. Besides being behind 320 and Up, Andy writes books, including Transcending CSS and the acclaimed Hardboiled Web Design. Andy shares his passion for amazing web design through articles and at workshops and conferences all over the world.
He tweets as @malarkey.
More thoughts by Andy Clarke:
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Anything that’s fixed and unresponsive isn’t web design anymore, it’s something else. If you don’t embrace the inherent fluidity of the web, you’re not a web designer, you’re something else. Web design is responsive design, Responsive Web Design is web design, done right.
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Last week, I took a train and joined over six-hundred other people at the New Adventures in Web Design conference in Nottingham. It was an unusual experience for me. I’ve been to fifty-plus events since my first in 2005, but New Adventures 2012 was the first where I was there to soak up the experience and not to speak.
Sitting — sometimes a little uncomfortably — in the audience, I spotted people who are well known for their speaking, writing and industry leadership. People who have spoken at conferences as far away as San Francisco and Sydney. People who have written articles and books that have changed the web. People whose ideas have inspired thousands of designers and developers.
You might think that people like this were on the stage, but they weren’t. They were sitting, like everyone else, in the audience, because they were there to learn and be inspired.
That’s one of the great things about working on the web.
There’s always something new to learn and someone willing to teach you.
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Why is it, that when I’m traveling, I can do a day’s work in two hours, but at home a full day’s work takes just that, a full day?
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The truly responsive design web designer wasn’t born until after the launch of the iPhone. We haven’t seen his or her work yet.
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About a year ago, I left day rates and job rates behind and started estimating, billing and working on projects on a weekly basis. A year on and I’m better organised, more productive and less stressed than ever before. Our accounts are in better shape and no one owes us money for longer than a week. It was one of the best business moves I’ve made.
Here are the dates of Andy Clarke's future thoughts:
- Friday, 1 June
- Saturday, 7 July
- Friday, 3 August
- Saturday, 8 September
- Friday, 12 October
- Saturday, 3 November
- Monday, 3 December