New Design and a New Tool - hluska.ca
This post introduces the latest update to hluska.ca along with the launch of a new accessibility-focused tool: SCSS Contrast – WCAG Grid. Designed for productive beginners like me, the tool generates a visual matrix of color contrast ratios based on your SCSS variables. I share the origin story of the tool, thank the friends who helped refine it, and outline what’s coming next in its development.
A pause
I have recently been learning more about design and have gotten some new websites out that I am very proud of. But it is time to stop releasing, reflect on what I have learned and plot out my next several years of learning.
New Design and a New Tool - hluska.ca
It's been a year since I last redesigned hluska.ca and I have learned a huge amount since. My design skills were terrible - so terrible that I found myself losing interest in my own sites. But the fitness tracker project really convinced me that I need to skill up. And the more skill I gained, the more uncomfortable I got with my existing sites. This was the last one that I redesigned and I am very happy with the results.
The Fourth Design
I rebuilt the fitness tracker website using everything I have learned about design over the last several months. It is very fast, highly accessible and full of content on exercise, nutrition and anatomy. My design skills have come far and I am growing to really enjoy design.
The Third Design
I'm still working to get better at designing stuff - my learning path has taken me through a lot of articles, implementing better designers work and even into a new static site generator. Recently, I put all my learning into a new template and pushed it live onto two sites.
A Tale of Three Designs
My name is Greg and I have committed some grave design sins. The website you are on right now shows off many of them, but it's actually decent compared to some other monstrosities that I have created. But several weeks ago, I decided it was time to start learning. Like many beginners, my progress was noteworthy in the beginning. This article is about some of the very basic lesssons I learned and some paths I took to learn them.