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Five reasons why small companies should create a Design System

March 15, 2018 By Abbey Fitzgerald Filed Under: UX

Five reasons why small companies should create a Design System

In the last few years, Design Systems have become a necessary point of reference for designers and developers as they create digital products. This collection of reusable components, along with branding information and other documentation, is found …

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Five agile UX lessons I learned from plein air painting

February 14, 2018 By Abbey Fitzgerald Filed Under: UX

Five agile UX lessons I learned from plein air painting

Plein air painting is agile painting In the last year, I've been working on finding better ways to take digital breaks. Between my UX job, writing, and other web projects, I spend way too much time in the digital space. Instead of being hunched over …

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Speaking Event – GDI Minneapolis August Meetup

August 3, 2017 By Abbey Fitzgerald Filed Under: Design Reflections

Speaking Event – GDI Minneapolis August Meetup

Speaking about style guides I had the opportunity to speak at the Girl Develop It Minneapolis Chapter Monthly Meetup. It's been awhile since I've done a presentation and I was a bid nervous since I did not know if the audience would be interested …

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CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox layout experiment

June 19, 2017 By Abbey Fitzgerald Filed Under: Digital Design

CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox layout experiment

Experimenting with Layout It's exciting to read about the growing support for CSS Grid Layouts. As it becomes more of a reality, I really wanted to become more comfortable with how to create a layout and brush up on the properties needed. CSS Grid …

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Design crash and treatment

June 15, 2017 By Abbey Fitzgerald Filed Under: Design Reflections

Design crash and treatment

Recently, I think I was on the verge of a design crash. As designers, we take a lot of crap. Other industries do too, so this isn't completely exclusive to design. Restaurant servers, retail employees, nurses, and many other occupations are very …

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About Abbey Fitzgerald

Abbey Fitzgerald UX and Web Designer

I am Minnesota nice. Located in Minneapolis, MN, I'm a UX software engineer with a long history in the digital design space. My goal is to make people's lives easier by creating and improving their experience.

Life can't be all work and no play. I also like to dabble in charcoal and oil paint.

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