Laura Elizabeth
@lauraelizdunn
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Founder of , a WP plugin for freelancers to use with their clients to keep track of all the deliverables in a centralized portal
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Matt: WPE don’t contribute enough. I will destroy them.
People: Sure, but they aren’t actually required to, right?
Matt: It’s a licensing issue! My mum’s confused!
People: What exactly are they doing that’s against the license?
Matt: They’re not contributing enough!
😳😳
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Last week I launched the new version of my Design Fundamentals course.
This weeks launch was *significantly* harder.
But everyone, meet Lucy Rose Dunn 😀
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So today (for my birthday) I finally launched Design Fundametals! 🎉
It’s been months of intense work but I’m SO happy with how it’s come out and hearing the feedback from the pre-order students is the best feeling in the world.
Check it out:
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I'm proud as punch to be in what I consider the *most beautiful*
@smashingmag
book ever created.
Not only that, it's alongside some of the most high quality pieces on web design I've ever read. This is definitely one for your bookshelf.
Get it here 👉
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Finally got around to grabbing my copy of this months
@netmag
- been reading this for years, and now I’m in it!! 😄🎉
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🎉 Well, it’s official! As of right now (but only until Sunday) pre-orders for Design Fundamentals is open!
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Working on some custom courseware for my first designacademy.io course coming next month! And of course, recording my screen as I do it :-)
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Now the hard work of wireframing is over, it’s time to start adding some spit and polish to the new RightMessage app. Exciting!
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🔥 By the way, Project Pack: The Web Design Edition is now officially LIVE!
Check out the most comprehensive, beautiful, and darn effective set of templates for freelancers and agencies.
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It feels so good to finally get around to designing the marketing website for RightMessage…
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Just received the biggest ‘kick up the arse’ email from a subscriber
@markbutlershow
. Torn between feeling complimented & ashamed 😅
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Well worth the 9 hour wait. Absolutely incredible experience watching the
#FalconHeavy
launch. The landing was phenomenal 🤩🤩
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The fun thing about teaching a design course is that when I show a trick that I use in design and try to explain it, I end up having a ton of epiphanies as to WHY certain things look good, that I didn't know before.
Teaching really is a fantastic way to learn. 👍
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Working on some Project Pack designs today. Goal is to make these ridiculously easy to edit to fit with any brand. Pre-orders are going to be open from Black Friday!
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How much money do you think style guides and/or pattern libraries save your clients in the long run?
A bucket load
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Maybe a little
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Stays the same
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They probably lose money
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Making some more progress on the RightMessage app. Trying to make it super usable while keeping some of that brand character :-)
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Finally getting ready to start selling Design Academy’s first course! Also my first time attempting dark UI (harder than I thought!)
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Client Portal is currently
#6
on
@ProductHunt
🎉 If you work with clients and want to check it out:
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Ooh! Design Fundamentals has made it onto the popular tab on
@ProductHunt
It's at the bottom, sure — but it's there 😄
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I didn't realise how important in-person conferences can be for motivation/growth until now.
My businesses still do well, but I have no idea what to do next and I've lost my
#1
source of new ideas...
Anyone else in the same situation?
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@photomatt
@wpengine
If you haven’t defined what companies who run on WordPress are required to do to give back, it doesn’t seem fair outing them for not doing enough.
“Enough” needs to be defined. It can’t be based on one persons private opinion.
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Cracked the 10k subscriber mark today! Yes it’s nothing more than a vanity metric, but we’re all allowed to be a little vain now and again, aren’t we? 🎉🎉
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Today is a BIG day:
🚀 Launched pre orders for — a set of beautifully designed, and crazy comprehensive set of templates for freelancers with
@brennandunn
(with a 60% discount when you pre order)
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Launching pre-orders for Design Fundamentals (Design Academy’s first course!) tomorrow. It’s finally happening!
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Bought this monstrosity today. But I suppose it’s high time I prioritized health over aesthetics 👍
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💡Working on a new thing.
The most comprehensive set of documents and templates for freelancers/agencies... and they'll all integrate directly with Client Portal!
Landing page is in the works...
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On my way to
#MicroConf
Vegas! Been looking forward to this all year. Anyone else going who’d like to meet up and talk shop? 🙂
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First day fully back at work after being part time/on maternity leave for the last 5 months.
I’m excited to get back into it, and even more excited to end each day seeing this face👇
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🥰
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I have to say,
@calm
has been my favourite subscription of the year.
I got it to help with my insomnia (which amazingly it did!), but it's also so good for focusing at work and dealing with life in general.
Keeping this one 👍
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Does anyone have any links to online courses they've taken (or are taking) that completely exceeded their expectations in every way? Would ❤️ to hear about them!
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Congrats to both
@steveschoger
and
@adamwathan
on launching Refactoring UI!
Teaching design in a practical and useful way is *really* hard so massive props to you for everything you do to help devs learn how to make stuff look good.
🔥🔥🔥
🔥 Excited to announce that Refactoring UI is now available!
It's everything we know about designing for the web, packed into a single comprehensive resource.
Get it during the launch for up to 40% off 👉🏻
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🚀 Just published my most in-depth article to date about launching the pre-sales for Design Fundamentals.
I go through what worked, what didn’t work, and a step-by-step guide to all the logistics of pulling something like this off.
Check it out: ❤️
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Who are some great Wordpress plug-in founders to follow?
👀👀
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Everyone said that when they improve their fitness their energy increases.
I’ve never experienced this historically but after strength training for just 2 months and switching to a cargo bike (now 100% car free), I have so much more energy, and I’m just generally happier 💪
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@pb_steele
Exactly. It comes across to me as jealously over how much they’re making, or some kind of personal grudge.
Trying to stay open minded of course..
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In the next 2 months I'm:
- Moving back to the UK
- Selling our house
- Buying a new house
- Shipping half our furniture, selling the rest
- Re-recording my course
- Having a baby
- Shutting down my US company and starting a UK one
- Sponsoring
@brennandunn
for his UK visa...
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Took a break from my course creation today to help design some onboarding for
@rightmessageapp
's new product: RightBar! I mean, if I'm teaching design, I gotta keep designing, right?
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Happy to wake up and see this on
@ProductHunt
this morning! A little tool I helped design takes where you're at in your business and gives you recommendations to increase $£€. Check out Value My Funnel on PH (it's free!)
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I'm SO excited about this next update for Client Portal.
We're adding custom content pages which will allow you to create branded pages for your clients, include form embeds, videos, and more.
Check out the preview:
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Just sent out my first customer interview request emails. Thanks to
@AsiaOrangio
's incredible talk at
@MicroConf
.
She's finally convinced me that I need to, you know, *talk* to my customers.
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The Web Design Edition of Project Pack is nearly ready as a portal!
Can't wait for the release next week. 👉 👈
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Anyone else find it annoying when a pricing page says things like $7/month and then 'billed annually' in really teeeeeny writing? I don’t mind paying annually but when I click pay and see “You’ve just been billed $84”... it doesn't exactly break the bank but feels icky.
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Now I’m in my last year of my 20’s I’m finally getting around to reading
@ramit
’s I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
And like a lot of people, I wish I read it sooner.
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This email has made my week! Not feeling confident in calling myself a professional is *exactly* why I made ☺️🎉
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First article up on
@smashingmag
! My feed was lively this morning! :D
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Finally got around to using
@rightmessageapp
as a *customer* rather than a designer. Found a few flaws in the onboarding which we're now fixing, but overall.. WOW we built a really, really cool thing.
Will be doing a detailed writeup about how I'm using RM with my course soon👏
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Alright, here it is...
*drumroll*
🍾 🥳 We've started a podcast!! 🎉
Join
@nathanjpowellUX
and myself for fortnightly conversations about running a business as a non-tech founder in the aptly named, The Non-Tech Founders Podcast!
👉 Read about it here:
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I've been indecisive about whether to go to
#WCEU
this year, but I think I'm gonna do it.
Always a bit nerve-wracking going solo, so who else is going?
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Just ran the numbers and (assuming I did it correctly) it looks like my new email course for Client Portal gets a 21% conversion rate 🎉
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Anybody who works with a design system managed to measure any results from it (monetary, efficiency etc.)? Looking for a few case studies for a book 🙂
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I ❤️ that
@LaraconEU
gives speakers feedback from the attendees. I wish more conferences did this as it's SO helpful to improve talks.
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Look, mum! I’m in a book!
After 10 months of work, today we're so happy to release the new Smashing Book 6, with chapters:
🔮 Making Design Systems Work by
@laurium
⛳ Accessible Apps by
@marcysutton
🏡 CSS Grid Layouts by
@rachelandrew
🚂 CSS Custom Properties
@MikeRiethmuller
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So I'm trying to learn a bit of front-end—finding playing around with Inspect is so much easier (and more fun) than a lot of courses 😄
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I'm 100% exhausted after a day on my own with a baby. Yet from the outside it looks so easy (sipping coffee at a cafe, wandering around a library, going to the shop to get milk).
Going to work is so much easier. Stay at home parents are amazing.
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When I do sales, I usually get higher no. of sales from my 1st pitch email. Added testimonials to the final email & the results flipped. 🎉
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🔥 Work on my new venture, Project Pack, is ramping up! Aiming for a Black Friday launch of the most useful (and beautiful) templates, worksheets, and assets that you can use in your freelance business.
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Getting a great response for my book on Debugging Design so far! Looks like I’m on track 😄
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Having a blast at
#cabopress
. I’m fortunate enough to be in the company of some *very* smart people in what can only be described as paradise 😎
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Since using Pomodoro’s I’ve found out that I can hold 25 minutes of full attention when designing but only about 12 when writing. No wonder my articles seem to take forever to write!
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After a whirlwind week with Lucy in hospital with suspected meningitis (which turned out to be COVID), I'm very grateful to be back to work today with a happy, healthy baby.
Now just need to face my inbox 🥶 and reschedule All The Things.
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This is where I’m going to be doing my talk about onboarding for freelancers here at
#WCEU
today @ 3pm!
Can’t tell if I’m nervous or excited?!
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So it turns out I have a whole conference named after me! See you at Lauracon in Laugust?
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Watching Fight Club for the first time... surprisingly I’m quite enjoying it!
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I'm so glad I decided to make a Facebook group with my course on design. Seeing people actually follow the process and post their progress is awesome and judging by the results (even at these early stages) makes it clear that this stuff WORKS!
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Does anyone have any great Weblow developers they could recommend? Ideally, someone you've actually worked with before to help narrow down the search 😀
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Well this was jolly nice to wake up to. Thanks
@smashingmag
!
The person of the week this week is
@laurium
. Laura is a designer turned product creator; she's been writing/speaking about designing and maintaining design systems. She also helps developers understand design (). Thanks for sharing and caring, Laura!
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Absolutely! Here are my slides from
@LaraconEU
:
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We had a pretty decent UI for RightMessage’s editor but why not spend the whole day overhauling it to make it *even more awesome*? 😄
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Very excited to be seeing Harry Potter with a live orchestra today! Combining 2 is my favourite things 🧙♀️🎼
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The RightMessage website is probably one of the ‘funkiest’ I’ve ever done. 🤘😎
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I spent yesterday completely re-doing the copy in my email course... I think people like it!
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Did my first ever webinar yesterday with
@_jimmyrose
from
@contentsnare
.
Been putting webinars off for way too because they sounded scary. But GUESS WHAT?! We had a great time and it went swimmingly 🙃
Check out the replay:
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Soo.. yesterday I showed you the recipe selector.
Today was a biggie: the RM editor. A big improvement from v1!
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One of my favourite UK conferences is coming up soon: Patterns Day is a whole day dedicated to design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, & all that lovely stuff.
Would recommend if any of the above even slightly interests you, you'll have a blast!
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👋 Two things:
1) Design Fundamentals is now open indefinitely
2) For everyone who signs up, I'm giving away 2 free places in the course to those who need it
Enrol here:
Or apply for a free place here:
🙏
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@taylorotwell
@LaraconEU
Leaving tomorrow too! I feel very fortunate to be a part of 2 Laracon’s in 1 year 😊
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This is my current favourite newsletter I subscribe to (and I'm picky), so I can't tell you how thrilled and surprised I am to be mentioned here! 🤩
The best copy reads like your customers wrote it.
In the case of Design Academy, this is quite literally the case.
On sign up you get sent an email asking “what is your biggest frustration with design?”
The answers are then saved in one big Google sheet:
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Spent the last couple of days re-recording Design Fundamentals. So much happier with the format now and really proud of this course.
Now it’s time to work on the screen recordings, assets, and editing.
A long way to go yet!
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Glad to see this out! It was great talking to Jake and Michael about teaching developers design 😄
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To celebrate yesterdays pre-order launch of Design Fundamentals, I just bagged tickets to see
@SpaceX
’s Falcon Heavy launch! 🚀
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I usually take Fridays off but this week I’m recording a new video for the Client Portal redesign!
Really hope it turns out ok… because I don’t want to do this again for a while 😆
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On my way to
#microconf
London with
@brennandunn
! So excited to see everyone - first in person conference since covid/baby 😀
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I <3 it when people pirate my product to Facebook groups that my friends are in. It feels so satisfying catching people out.
Then I think of all the people who are getting away with it and I get maaad.
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I had to email out to everyone who pre-ordered Design Fundamentals that it’s delayed - I was dreading the response but very happy to say 99.9% of people were overwhelmingly supportive! V. grateful I have such nice customers - but that doesn’t mean I’ll get lazy. Full steam ahead!
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Just to clarify: I’ll be teaching you how to make your *design* less terrible, not you, you’re lovely :-)
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Alright soooo... Design Fundamentals is finally open again! 🔥🎉
Made some massive changes which I've been working on since January so I'm extra excited to see what you all think:
Check it out:
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No copy has ever resonated with me more 👏
🔥 I just reserved my handle on Level, a distraction-free alternative to Slack designed for software teams.
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