Nicky is a Technical Manager at FutureLearn, and has spent more than a decade as a freelance and in-house web developer, making beautiful websites that work for everyone.
Talks I've Given
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Using software engineering practices to improve engineering management
Featuring Nicky Thompson
As an engineering manager, your responsibility is not to build features, but to build systems to support the people building the features. This talk will give some tips on using familiar tools and techniques from your time as a software engineer to help make management easier and more systematic....
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CSS Shapes: Upgrade Your Page Layouts
Featuring Nicky Thompson
Web design is getting boring. We're not learning enough from our history, and so we're doomed to repeat our mistakes. You won't get your message across effectively if your website looks like all the other websites out there.
web-design page-layouts css-shapes css ruby