I’ve written recently on how much I loved attending and presenting at ConvergeSE a few month back in June of this year. But what I didn’t write about is that I had the pleasure of being interviewed (yet again!), but the very wonderful and extremely talented Giovanni Difeterici of UnMatchedStyle.com on CSS, the extremely awesome past year of my career, and my future goals.
The conference had me so jazzed — all of the great information, being able to spend time with some of my favorite web peeps and meeting new ones, and being on a high from the warm reception of my workshop on CSS3 and Responsive Design — that I blasted enthusiasm and passion towards Giovanni’s great questions. But he is a passionate, creative guy himself — I think he handled it just fine.
Check out the interview, it’s only 5 minutes or so:
And if you’ve seen me speak and my enthusiasm touched you or helped you feel more empowered in any way, let me know!
I don’t know about you, but I have a very loud, insistent, and mean roommate. Sometimes he’s quiet and well-behaved, and we maintain an amicable truce. Other times – most often when I am trying to produce something brilliant – he’s raucous and destructive, yelling demoralizing epithets at me and keeping me from doing the kick-ass work I know I can do.
I would love to kick him out: take all of his belongings and put them out on the lawn with a “FREE” sign on it all, change the keys on all of the locks, and refuse to receive any of his calls. There’s only one problem: he’s in my head. Don’t look at me askance; he’s not an “imaginary friend”. He’s the troll under my subconscious bridge. He’s my inner critic.
If you have a similar mental companion, check out the article “Banishing Your Inner Critic” that I wrote for the esteemed A List Apart to get a litany of tips and pointers on how to oust him from his post so you can claim your awesomeness and do great work.
ps – shout out to my dear friend and awesome writer in his own right, Daniel O’Donnell (aka The Oscar Delta), for doing an awesome first pass edit on the article for me! Teamwork rocks.
When Lisa Lang formerly of Sitepoint.com (but now of Smashing Magazine) asked me to do a podcast screencast for DesignFestival.com, naturally I said “yes!”, as I love all of the great content that comes from Sitepoint and its related sites.
With the latest movement towards Responsive Web Design, developed by Ethan Marcotte, and also based on the most recent workshop that I gave at ConvergeSE entitled “CSS3: Ripe and Responsive”, it seemed like a presentation on the history of web design and the directions for the future were very apt.
Check out the presentation “The Age of Responsive Design” at DesignFestival.com and let me know your thoughts about the exciting place we are at in the history of the web industry and with web design.
DesignDesign Festival Podcast #11 – Video – The Age of Responsive Design from SitePoint on Vimeo.
Denise R. Jacobs is an Author, Speaker, Web Design Trainer, and Creativity Evangelist. Based in Miami, Florida, she is author of