Eleventy in a Box
A premium Eleventy starter kit for designers and developers who want to spend less time setting up the same project structure and more time designing distinctive websites.
Last week, Cennydd Bowles wrote his Letter to a Junior Designer. It was widely shared and commented on, but while I enjoyed Cennydd sharing his experience—he is, after-all, an experienced product designer—I felt that his message and tone were profoundly negative.
This paragraph in particular rankled me:
Perhaps your teachers exalted The Idea as the gem of creative work; taught you The Idea is the hard part. I disagree. Ideas aren’t to be trusted. They need to be wrung dry, ripped apart.
I want to inspire young/junior designers, not demoralise them, so I wrote my own, different, letter to a junior designer that’s based on my experience and published it alongside Cennydd’s original on A List Apart.
(This is my first article on A List Apart for eight years, eight years since Invasion of the Body Switchers. I won’t leave it so long next time.)
A premium Eleventy starter kit for designers and developers who want to spend less time setting up the same project structure and more time designing distinctive websites.
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