Need some of the same?
I’m available for hire to help you out with workshops, consultancy, advice, and development.
Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry.
One of the first clients I worked with after I’d started working for myself was the Financial Times. When Andrew Betts—Founder and Director of the prolific FT Labs—got in touch about me helping them out with their CSS architecture and development of a UI Toolkit, I was incredibly excited, and rightfully so:
We’re great fans of Harry at FT Labs, his work has had a lot of influence over the CSS architecture of the Financial Times web app.
Andrew Betts, Director, FT Labs
We initially weren’t sure what the extent of our working together might be, so I recommended we start with some on-site consultancy work to help the team get a handle on some of the problems they faced, and how we might be able to solve them. On the day, I woke at 0440 and made my way from Leeds down to the capital to join Andrew and the team at the FT offices in London.
This initial day turned into an intensive, all-day workshop- and consultancy-style Q&A session as Andrew and some of the FT’s core designers and developers fired questions at me. Over the course of the day we’d managed to cover topics including:
I’m available for hire to help you out with workshops, consultancy, advice, and development.
At the end of a long but very fun day, I left the team with a lot of answers to a lot of questions—looking back at the notes from the day, it’s crazy just how much stuff we managed to get covered.
Next: Preparing Raspberry Pi for their upcoming changes
<a href=/case-studies/>View all case studies…</a>
Hi there, I’m Harry Roberts. I am an award-winning Consultant Web Performance Engineer, designer, developer, writer, and speaker from the UK. I write, Tweet, speak, and share code about measuring and improving site-speed. You should hire me.
I am available for hire to consult, advise, and develop with passionate product teams across the globe.
I specialise in large, product-based projects where performance, scalability, and maintainability are paramount.