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title: Design for Developers
teaser:
tags: news,upcase,web,design
author: Chad Mazzola
published_on: 2011-10-21
---

I'll be teaching the next session of our [Design for
Developers](http://workshops.thoughtbot.com/sections/28-design-for-developers)
workshop on December 7th & 8th at our Boston offices.

The workshop is aimed at developers (as well as non-developers) who know <abbr
title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> and <abbr title="Cascading Style
Sheets">CSS</abbr>, but feel like they don't have the graphic design skills to
make something that looks good enough to show customers and clients. I want to
ease the pain of developers who feel like this:

> I'm a developer who is a HORRIBLE at design so I don't even know where to
> start.

...or this...

> I have the technical skills but my designed sites and interfaces are always
> awful, I know how to build a site technically and I know when a site looks
> bad, but I'm rarely able to do anything about it.

The workshop is heavily focused on hands-on instruction, so that you can start
to see immediate improvements in your ability to layout pages, pick and use
typefaces, and work with color.

[Visit the workshops site to learn more and
register](http://workshops.thoughtbot.com/sections/28-design-for-developers).

On the Monday and Tuesday before this workshop, we'll also be running our
[Advanced HTML & CSS
workshop](http://workshops.thoughtbot.com/sections/26-advanced-html-css). This
workshop provides a solid foundation in <abbr title="HyperText Markup
Language">HTML</abbr> and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>
fundamentals. We're running these workshops back to back to give folks the
opportunity to get a crash course in the full stack of skills you'll need to
design and build great pages.

If you'd like to find out more about either workshop and figure out which one
might be right for you, [drop us a line](mailto:workshops@thoughtbot.com).