Laura Kalbag
@laurakalbag.bsky.social
½ of Small Technology Foundation. Designs, talks, and writes about web, rights-respecting tech, inclusivity, privacy, design and dev. I wrote a book: Accessibility For Everyone: https://accessibilityforeveryone.site she/her
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I'm working on a bespoke design tokens solution for a client, every organisation is different and there's never going to be a 'one size fits all' solution
Looking for help?
Together, we can create a tailored design tokens strategy that helps you and your team(s)
[email protected] (or DM)
🙏🖤
Looking for help?
Together, we can create a tailored design tokens strategy that helps you and your team(s)
[email protected] (or DM)
🙏🖤
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I'm working on a bespoke design tokens solution for a client, every organisation is different and there's never going to be a 'one size fits all' solution
Looking for help?
Together, we can create a tailored design tokens strategy that helps you and your team(s)
[email protected] (or DM)
🙏🖤
Looking for help?
Together, we can create a tailored design tokens strategy that helps you and your team(s)
[email protected] (or DM)
🙏🖤
New hands-on livestream next week!
I’m hoping this will also be valuable if you want to get to know some of the newest Penpot features! If there’s anything specific you find tricky or confusing in Penpot, let me know and I’ll try to cover it in the demo.
I’m hoping this will also be valuable if you want to get to know some of the newest Penpot features! If there’s anything specific you find tricky or confusing in Penpot, let me know and I’ll try to cover it in the demo.
We’re back with a new Hands-on Demo live 🔴
If you’re not quite sure how to start with components, variants, or design tokens, this demo is for you.
🗓️December 10
🕒15:00 UTC
▶️Peertube, Youtube or Linkedin
Links are in our community post
community.penpot.app/t/scalable-u...
If you’re not quite sure how to start with components, variants, or design tokens, this demo is for you.
🗓️December 10
🕒15:00 UTC
▶️Peertube, Youtube or Linkedin
Links are in our community post
community.penpot.app/t/scalable-u...
Scalable UI design | Hands-on Demo, December 10th
We’re back with a new hands-on live demo on December 10, 2025 🗓! If you’re not quite sure how to start with components, variants, or design tokens, this demo is for you. What makes a go...
community.penpot.app
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New hands-on livestream next week!
I’m hoping this will also be valuable if you want to get to know some of the newest Penpot features! If there’s anything specific you find tricky or confusing in Penpot, let me know and I’ll try to cover it in the demo.
I’m hoping this will also be valuable if you want to get to know some of the newest Penpot features! If there’s anything specific you find tricky or confusing in Penpot, let me know and I’ll try to cover it in the demo.
Reposted by Laura Kalbag
The holidays are coming, so it’s time to make your wish list🎄
What do you need from Penpot to make the switch? 👀
What do you need from Penpot to make the switch? 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The holidays are coming, so it’s time to make your wish list🎄
What do you need from Penpot to make the switch? 👀
What do you need from Penpot to make the switch? 👀
There’s few folks as reliable, thoughtful, and no-nonsense as @bell.bz. I’ve known him a long time and I don’t endorse people lightly.
If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:
set.studio
If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:
set.studio
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There’s few folks as reliable, thoughtful, and no-nonsense as @bell.bz. I’ve known him a long time and I don’t endorse people lightly.
If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:
set.studio
If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:
set.studio
For the hundredth time I’ve ended up with an unnecessary 1000 words on a complete tangent. And it came out so easily.
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
For the hundredth time I’ve ended up with an unnecessary 1000 words on a complete tangent. And it came out so easily.
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I'm also contractually obliged to share that my course is part of the @piccalil.li Black Friday deal.
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
Complete CSS
A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalil.li
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I'm also contractually obliged to share that my course is part of the @piccalil.li Black Friday deal.
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
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Our Black Friday deals are now live!
Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time.
piccalilli.link/black-friday...
Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time.
piccalilli.link/black-friday...
Premium Courses
Expansive, high quality education to make you a better developer and designer. Join thousands of others in boosting your career opportunities.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our Black Friday deals are now live!
Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time.
piccalilli.link/black-friday...
Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time.
piccalilli.link/black-friday...
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My NO, SERIOUSLY, FUCK ENGAGEMENT talk from Axe-con is now live, along with the Q&A! youtu.be/sfbCHALEyP4?...
No, Seriously, F*ck Engagement: Building a More Human Web with David Dylan Thomas | Axe-con 2025
YouTube video by Deque Systems
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My NO, SERIOUSLY, FUCK ENGAGEMENT talk from Axe-con is now live, along with the Q&A! youtu.be/sfbCHALEyP4?...
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📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
practical-accessibility.today
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
The good people at @deque.com have put my #axe-con 2025 presentation, Design for Everyone, live for all! (With captions and ASL.)
This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7...
This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7...
Design For Everyone with Laura Kalbag | Axe-con 2025
YouTube video by Deque Systems
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The good people at @deque.com have put my #axe-con 2025 presentation, Design for Everyone, live for all! (With captions and ASL.)
This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7...
This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7...
Reposted by Laura Kalbag
Have you checked out our UI Course yet?
If so… here’s your next challenge: design the typography for a magazine or news article in Penpot!
Show us your magic in our community space ✨
community.penpot.app/t/assignment...
If so… here’s your next challenge: design the typography for a magazine or news article in Penpot!
Show us your magic in our community space ✨
community.penpot.app/t/assignment...
Assignment: Article typography - UI Course Block 1
In this assignment, the task is to design the typography for a magazine or news article using Penpot. Here’s what I did. You can watch the video of me designing the typography in the walkthrough vide...
community.penpot.app
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Have you checked out our UI Course yet?
If so… here’s your next challenge: design the typography for a magazine or news article in Penpot!
Show us your magic in our community space ✨
community.penpot.app/t/assignment...
If so… here’s your next challenge: design the typography for a magazine or news article in Penpot!
Show us your magic in our community space ✨
community.penpot.app/t/assignment...
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I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026:
www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce...
#DigitalAccessibilityEthics
www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce...
#DigitalAccessibilityEthics
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
The book introduces the first Digital Access...
www.routledge.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026:
www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce...
#DigitalAccessibilityEthics
www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce...
#DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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🚨 Announcing All Day Hey! 2026. Celebrating ten years of the conference. The final one. Let's go!
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🚨 Announcing All Day Hey! 2026. Celebrating ten years of the conference. The final one. Let's go!
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
I’m at #Converge! Very excited to sit and learn from some fabulous talks today. Thank you to @zeroheight.com, @bencallahan.com and @penpot.app for bringing me here to Bristol so last minute.
If you want to talk #Penpot, come find me before I manage to completely rub my name off my badge.
If you want to talk #Penpot, come find me before I manage to completely rub my name off my badge.
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I’m at #Converge! Very excited to sit and learn from some fabulous talks today. Thank you to @zeroheight.com, @bencallahan.com and @penpot.app for bringing me here to Bristol so last minute.
If you want to talk #Penpot, come find me before I manage to completely rub my name off my badge.
If you want to talk #Penpot, come find me before I manage to completely rub my name off my badge.
Reposted by Laura Kalbag
Here’s s small talk I gave some weeks ago as part of @penpot.app fest 2025 🥰🫶🏻 “We fixed it on Main”
youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...
youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...
How design and dev innovate together? By Glòria Langreo at GitHub
YouTube video by Penpot
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here’s s small talk I gave some weeks ago as part of @penpot.app fest 2025 🥰🫶🏻 “We fixed it on Main”
youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...
youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...
If you missed Penpot Fest a few weeks ago, many of the talks are already live on @penpot.app’s Peertube peertube.kaleidos.net/w/p/ax41QLcz...
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you missed Penpot Fest a few weeks ago, many of the talks are already live on @penpot.app’s Peertube peertube.kaleidos.net/w/p/ax41QLcz...
The next unit for the UI Design with @penpot.app course is now out!
It’s Text & Typography, and I’m sorry I’m a bit late in telling you…
penpot.app/courses
It’s Text & Typography, and I’m sorry I’m a bit late in telling you…
penpot.app/courses
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The next unit for the UI Design with @penpot.app course is now out!
It’s Text & Typography, and I’m sorry I’m a bit late in telling you…
penpot.app/courses
It’s Text & Typography, and I’m sorry I’m a bit late in telling you…
penpot.app/courses
I should say I haven’t had any of these issues working with the Penpot team. I often notice the particular respect and empathy the Kaleidos folks have for each other. And I’ve been touched by times they’ve listened to me and taken actions to look out for me.
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I should say I haven’t had any of these issues working with the Penpot team. I often notice the particular respect and empathy the Kaleidos folks have for each other. And I’ve been touched by times they’ve listened to me and taken actions to look out for me.
A kind person just reminded me this video exists.
10 years ago I recorded a 4 minute video on why women leave the tech industry.
10 years later, I still stand by everything I said, and I’m so frustrated at how little the working environment has changed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0v...
10 years ago I recorded a 4 minute video on why women leave the tech industry.
10 years later, I still stand by everything I said, and I’m so frustrated at how little the working environment has changed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0v...
Laura Kalbag : Why women leave the tech industry
YouTube video by Coralesce Ltd
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A kind person just reminded me this video exists.
10 years ago I recorded a 4 minute video on why women leave the tech industry.
10 years later, I still stand by everything I said, and I’m so frustrated at how little the working environment has changed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0v...
10 years ago I recorded a 4 minute video on why women leave the tech industry.
10 years later, I still stand by everything I said, and I’m so frustrated at how little the working environment has changed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0v...
I’m weirdly getting a lot of unsolicited emails from real people to my Gmail account. It’s a custom domain, it’s not listed publicly anywhere.
Does Google make you discoverable in this way if a person knows your name? Feels off.
(It’s a work email, Gmail not my choice!)
Does Google make you discoverable in this way if a person knows your name? Feels off.
(It’s a work email, Gmail not my choice!)
October 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I’m weirdly getting a lot of unsolicited emails from real people to my Gmail account. It’s a custom domain, it’s not listed publicly anywhere.
Does Google make you discoverable in this way if a person knows your name? Feels off.
(It’s a work email, Gmail not my choice!)
Does Google make you discoverable in this way if a person knows your name? Feels off.
(It’s a work email, Gmail not my choice!)
Penpot Fest is kicking off now! You can join in and watch live at penpot.app/penpotfest
#penpotFest #penpot #opensource
#penpotFest #penpot #opensource
Penpot | The event that brings design, code and open source together.
The design event for designers and developers
penpot.app
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Penpot Fest is kicking off now! You can join in and watch live at penpot.app/penpotfest
#penpotFest #penpot #opensource
#penpotFest #penpot #opensource
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Just one day to go!!! We couldn’t be more excited! 😍
🤩See you tomorrow!
And if you can’t attend in person, don’t worry, we’ll be broadcasting live🔴
⬇️⬇️⬇️
penpot.app/penpotfest
🤩See you tomorrow!
And if you can’t attend in person, don’t worry, we’ll be broadcasting live🔴
⬇️⬇️⬇️
penpot.app/penpotfest
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Just one day to go!!! We couldn’t be more excited! 😍
🤩See you tomorrow!
And if you can’t attend in person, don’t worry, we’ll be broadcasting live🔴
⬇️⬇️⬇️
penpot.app/penpotfest
🤩See you tomorrow!
And if you can’t attend in person, don’t worry, we’ll be broadcasting live🔴
⬇️⬇️⬇️
penpot.app/penpotfest
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In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉
Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...
Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉
Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...
Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...
I’ve made a free template for component variants and it’s now up in the Penpot Hub. Import the file to see how simple and complex components can utilise variants (including using design tokens!)
penpot.app/penpothub/li...
#Penpot #OpenSource
penpot.app/penpothub/li...
#Penpot #OpenSource
Penpot Libraries & Templates | Variant examples
Ten components showcasing different use cases for variants. Including basic examples, UI components, and variants using design tokens.
penpot.app
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I’ve made a free template for component variants and it’s now up in the Penpot Hub. Import the file to see how simple and complex components can utilise variants (including using design tokens!)
penpot.app/penpothub/li...
#Penpot #OpenSource
penpot.app/penpothub/li...
#Penpot #OpenSource
Live in 10 minutes!
🚀 We’re so excited about our latest release: Variants!!!
Don’t miss our LIVE stream tomorrow with @laurakalbag.bsky.social 👇
🔴 Design Systems with Variants | Hands-on Demo
🗓️Wed, Sep 24th
🕑UTC 2-3 pm
▶️PeerTube, Youtube & Linkedin
community.penpot.app/t/design-sys...
Don’t miss our LIVE stream tomorrow with @laurakalbag.bsky.social 👇
🔴 Design Systems with Variants | Hands-on Demo
🗓️Wed, Sep 24th
🕑UTC 2-3 pm
▶️PeerTube, Youtube & Linkedin
community.penpot.app/t/design-sys...
Design Systems with Variants | Hands-on Demo, Sept 24th
Hello friends! It’s time for another Hands-on demo and you really won’t want to miss this one. Mark your calendars for next week, Wednesday September 24th! 📅 If we’ve not met before, I’...
community.penpot.app
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Live in 10 minutes!