How to get hired as a front-end designer
What does it take to join the Revelry design team? After seven years of hiring front-end designers, VP of Design Laura Eble shares her…
Laura Eble
Vice President of Design
About Laura Eble
With a background in art and design from the University of Alabama, Laura began designing exclusively for online content when she moved to New Orleans in 2007. Always seeking out a challenge, Laura moved from Senior Designer at Mudbug Media to Front End Developer at The National WWII Museum, before joining Revelry as a UX Designer. In a constantly changing design environment she values extreme organization and consistency at the root of her work. When she's not sketching tiny wireframes or squinting at her laptop, Laura can be found biking around New Orleans with her dog friend, Snorkel.
A peek behind the curtain: What our software design engineers do
Laura Eble, VP of Design, has been a Revelry front-end engineer / UI and UX designer since 2014. I sat down with Laura to…
Meet Steve Achord: Solving Problems Through Empathy and Collaboration
I met Steve at Front End Party, a local meetup for Front-end developers and designers, when I was scouting around for a new Design hire. Immediately, Steve impressed me with his understanding of UX and how it impacts design. And when I realized that his UX and Design savvy was backed up by solid Front-end chops, I got super excited!
Using Null to Write Better Sass Mixins
Use null values in your Sass mixin to erase the style properties you don’t need.
3 Bits of CSS That I’m Going to Start Using Everyday
Viewport Sized Typography, CSS Columns, and Using CSS Shapes as Text Wrap
Sassy Ampersands Are… Beefy
Ampersands can handle situations like reverse nesting, extending class and id names, and even adjacent sibling selection.
Quick Color with Sass
With powerful tools like Foundation and Bootstrap, along with Sass, designing as you code feels much more natural than trying to replicate a static mockup in the browser. One issue I’ve had, however, is finding the right colors without having to go back to Photoshop. Luckily, Sass has some pretty amazing color functions that can automate your color choosing process.