Chris Dermody

How to pick a colour scheme for your MVP that's a little bit like cheating

In this post, we’ll discover how colour can be used to subconsciously influence how your users feel about your minimum viable product. We’ll see how colour can be used as a short-cut to your user’s brain, gently encouraging them to have the desired response when using your

Overhauling my WordPress website from scratch using Bootstrap v4 (alpha)

Update: This post is from the summer of 2016. I have since updated my blog to the premium theme you see now. I’ll keep this post for posterity and to see the process I went through in playing with the Alpha version of Bootstrap4 and the styling and layout

Slack custom slash command - check domain availability with Express.js, Node.js and Heroku

A quick custom slash command tutorial using Nodejs and Express, complete with styling responses

User experience for gyms, a note to gym managers

I’ve been in gyms a lot lately, whether it’s white collar boxing, generic cardio on a treadmill or powerlifting in the weights section. I’ve been at it all over the past 4 years in my ongoing pursuit of health and wellbeing, frequenting the whole range of gym

Designing with Sketch 3 and fun with animated SVG's

I’ve been a student of TeamTreehouse for quite a while now. I cannot speak highly enough of how polished and refined their courses feel and how much I’ve learned over the past year. So when they launched their course for Sketch 3, I paid attention. I hadn’t

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