Episode 351 | Laura Elizabeth - Designing Life




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Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href=""></a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/">@</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Laura Elizabeth talks with Dave Rael about lifestyle, passion, learning, designing software and websites, and teaching </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Laura Elizabeth is a designer with a hankering for cross stitch and rockets. She runs Design Academy which aims to help developers conquer their fear of design. She's also launched her first product called Client Portal—a client-friendly way to keep your projects organised.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Laura Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Design for developers</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Reuse in both development and design</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's lifestyle and devotion to her craft</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's path to learning how to really design, identifying the elements she learned, and becoming an educator</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - What is taught in (Laura's) schooling for designers and the inherent deficiency</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Making sense of good design</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The content of what Laura teaches</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The barriers to creating Laura's first course and long path to getting there</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's story of failure - freelancing woes</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The idea that became Client Portal and the process of turning that into a product</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's natural relationship with developers</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The importance of noticing good design and building a cache of knowing what you like</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Laura's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Laura</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://designacademy.io/design-fundamentals/?ref=daverael" target="_blank">Design Fundamentals - Laura's Course</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself" target="_blank">Do Not Repeat Yourself</a></li> <li><a href="https://client-portal.io/" target="_blank">Client Portal - Laura's WordPress Plugin for Managing Client Projects</a></li> <li><a href="https://designacademy.io/newsletter/" target="_blank">Laura's Email Course on Principles of Design</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Laura's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491919019/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Badass: Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Laura's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Share everything you're doing</li> <li>Don't underestimate what people don't know - you don't have to know everything to provide value</li> <li>Always think about your target audience and what they want and think about - and ask them and listen to what they tell you</li> </ol> </div> </div>