Blog

A collection of thoughts and experiences.

Designing at scale (An overview of Design Systems)

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Tue Aug 29 2023.

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A high level overview of working with Design Systems and how large organisations achieve design at scale. I gave this talk at Innovate Orange - a general technology and entrepreneurship meetup in regional NSW....
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Design System examples and resources

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Mon Nov 09 2020. Updated Thu Nov 12 2020.

A Design System defines the language and building blocks of an organisation's digital experiences. It is primarily used by designers and developers, and aims to bridge the two professions. Through working with Design Systems over the last few years, I've grown a list of some he...
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Manipulating colour in JavaScript

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Sun Aug 18 2019.

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Colours in Web Development are an interesting space; there are multiple formats for representing colours, and manipulating them to create new colours. In this talk, Nathan will discuss his experiment building a JavaScript app that manipulates colours to create new shades, and wh...
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Prototyping a social network with Keystone 5

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Sun Jun 23 2019.

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At the May 2019 SydJS meetup, Thinkmill unveiled Keystone 5 with a line-up of talks. In this talk, I show off how I am building The Garage, a social network for car lovers, using Keystone 5 and React Native....
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Bucket List

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Sat Feb 06 2016. Updated Fri Jan 08 2021.

## Career - ~~Become a web designer/developer~~ πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» - ~~Do work for a large national/international company~~ 🏒 - ~~Give three talks at meetups~~ - ~~Contribute to an open source project~~ - ~~Drop my _junior_ title 🍼~~ - Launch my own product - Speak at a conference - Lea...
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