Sondra Eby

@sondrae
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🎨 UX Designer at https://front-end.social/@OddBird
📚 MG & PB writer
🥁 Drummer for Teacup Gorilla
(she/they)
Websitehttp://sondraeby.com/
OddBird - Web Design & Developmenthttps://www.oddbird.net/
Teacup Gorilla - Bandhttps://www.teacupgorilla.com/

Working on some new band merch for an upcoming house show.

(logos will be white and red when they're done) #pottery

If you missed it, @sondrae and I chatted with @clayton about how to solve some of our current UX challenges. We also gave some free design advice and discussed what grinds our gears as designers and web users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RcF550Pcqc

Bad UX Design Patterns

YouTube

Tomorrow @stacy & @sondrae will be Winging It Live with @clayton to take on Bad UX Design Patterns. Join live, and bring your UX questions!

I'm excited for this one, and I get to watch it. :)

1pm ET / 10am PT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RcF550Pcqc

Bad UX Design Patterns

YouTube

Hi, #writing friends!

Sometimes updating (or creating) your author website can make you feel like curling up in bed for a week with a book and hot cup of tea!

So I wrote a course (based on working 20 years as a web designer by day) to help you all make your author websites more intuitive and engaging: https://sondraeby.com/author-website/

Demystifying Web Design for KidLit Authors

This free email course teaches you ways to engage a broad range of people on your author website using straightforward techniques.

Sondra Eby

Make the Web a More Colorful Place!

Stacy @stacy created a tutorial for using new color spaces & formats with OddContrast.

Convert colors
See gamut boundaries
Check contrast
Share & bookmark combinations
Copy & swap colors

Read in OddNews:
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=80219aa68d7bad77b9fd2eb93&id=3ea3627c16

#ux #design

I'd like to use my 11+ years of web design experience to write a free email course to help fellow #kidlit authors get the most out of your author website.

What topics would be most useful?

- Design new site
- Improve existing site
- Accessibility
- Content strategy
- Landing page design
- Something else?

https://www.oddbird.net/authors/sondra/

Sondra Eby

Brand & user experience designer

OddBird

I'm excited to dig into the how and why of #CSS anchor positioning, with @mia and @tabatkins.
Join us- we'll be Winging It live on Thursday at 1pm ET / 10am PT

youtube.com/live/3vwruYb9du4

I have feelings about AI & the web & my experience being trans "in tech" in 2025 - so I screamed some thoughts onto my personal web log.

I hope for all of us a more queer & humane future. Keep building communities & dreaming better paths.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Tech continues to be political

And the politics aren't looking great

Miriam Eric Suzanne

I know only a few of you might be in the area, but we open this weekend. It's a fun and ambitious show - full of live music, gothic horror, queer romance, and defiance.

Tickets are pay-what-you-want! Come hang out with us some evening?

https://grapefruitlab.com/shows/jane-eyre-2025/

Grapefruit Lab

We're remounting our popular queer gothic rock adaptation of the classic novel! Don’t believe the hype about Mr. Rochester, this book is much more than a single romantic plot-point.

Grapefruit Lab

My band, Teacup Gorilla has a new single out today! This first single from our upcoming Jane/Eyre album is named after the book young Jane reads at the start of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, and our stage adaptation with Grapefruit Lab.

https://www.teacupgorilla.com/2025/01/01/bewicks-birds/

Teacup Gorilla » Bewick's History of British Birds

The first single from Jane/Eyre

Teacup Gorilla