• The WTFs of UX & Web Design

    Deck for a lightning talk for the Dayton Web Developers discussion group. Terms I make fun of: Design Thinking, Agile Methodology and Mobile First, lol.

  • 100% Responsive Typography System using a Modular Scale

    Using a modular scale, some basic CSS and a bit of "eye balling", I show you how to create a responsive typography system. Slides done for the New to The Web discussion group in Dayton, OH.

  • CodePen Dayton 1-Year Anniversary

    A description of what's happened in the first year of CodePen Dayton: Amount of meetups, big names (guests), new logo.

  • Media Queries Mayhem: Sass, I'm Looking at You!

    I've seen amazingly clever Sass mixins created to handle CSS media queries, but I think that some of these solutions are overkill. In this presentation I show you how a mere 3 line Sass mixin can accomplish the same, keeping us focused on what matters most at the end of our day: happy users. -- Presentation for the Dublin CSS meetup (Ireland) - http://www.meetup.com/DublinCSS/

  • Create a Kick-Ass Color Scheme for Your Data

    Talk for the Dayton Data Visualization Group

  • Sass Workshop: The W's Questions

    A few details about what Sass is

  • CodePen Dayton [#4]: Sass Workshop

    Information slides

  • CodePen Dayton [#3]: Maps and Fractals

    Information slides

  • UX Tools

    UX Dayton Meetup presentation

  • CodePen Dayton [#2]: The "Why's" and the "How's"

    Information slides

  • CodePen Overview (CodePen Dayton [#1])

    Short introduction of CodePen for the first CodePen Dayton meetup.

  • CodePen Dayton [#1]

    Information slides

  • A Designer's Journey into JavaScript

    The story of how a web designer deals with JS and jQuery.

  • UI/UX Tips for Superheroes [Lightning Talk]

    Some web designers and developers are ditching icon fonts for SVG with the argument that they are 'bad'. Icon fonts aren't bad, at all. Here I show you why. -- 4th presentation for a lightning talk at the Dayton Web Developers meeting.

  • Media Queries Mayhem: Sass, I'm Looking at You!

    I've seen amazingly clever Sass mixins created to handle CSS media queries, but I think that some of these solutions are overkill. In this presentation I show you how a mere 3 line Sass mixin can accomplish the same, keeping us focused on what matters most at the end of our day: happy users. -- 3rd presentation at the Dayton Web Developers meeting.

  • Sass Mixins [Lightning Talk]

    Understand what Sass mixins are with simple and real life examples. -- 2nd presentation for a lightning talk at the Dayton Web Developers meeting.

  • Web Designers vs. The Command Line

    My story about how I learned Sass and how I leveled up with it. -- My first presentation at the Dayton Web Developers meeting.