Radical Design – A Rebellious Web Design Course

Design is hard, but it shouldn’t be. It’s hard because we get in our own way. We’re taught to follow the rules, follow the hottest trends, use the latest tools. But design is a playground, and playgrounds are for kids.

I’m here to show you how to play, to recapture the joy of creating, like you did when you were a kid. This course is for anyone pursuing authentic creativity. I made this for you.

Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or candlestick maker? Maybe you’re a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

I’m Jack McDade. I designed and created Statamic, designed Laravel.com, Laracon (a few times), Justin Jackson’s highly acclaimed site, and a whole pile of others.

I think the web has become too boring. There are too many fill-in-the-blank websites full of derivative content, lacking in personality. I’ve made a living zigging when everyone else zags. Design helps a site or brand stand out and be remembered, and applies equally to your personal portfolio or sophisticated, high-profile client project.

In this course I’m going to help you take your work from bland to grand. Bleak to chic. Boring to really quite very remarkably good. I’ll turn you into a designer.

It’s time to call bull@#$% on bad advice, show you shortcuts over here, delightful detours over there, and give you permission to get weird. This course is gonna get real. It’s gonna get practical. Silly and serious at the same time, even. I’m gonna teach you everything I know before I forget it all and have to mow grass for a living. Again.