Greetings, and welcome to my digital space!
My name is James Lau, a dedicated front-end web developer based in Boston. I’ve honed my expertise in front-end development, channeling my energies toward crafting compelling user interfaces and elevating user experiences through innovative development practices by blending my background skills in graphic design.
Journeying into the tech and design realm has been dynamic and enriching, from collaborating with small design firms to contributing to the digital landscapes of large enterprises, with a wealth of experience across diverse client projects—spanning print, mobile, and web platforms.
When I am not being a robot by day, I spend time being a human by night and weekends with my son and wife. Watching movies, playing board games, and video games, cooking random food recipes from oldie cookbooks dug up from yard sales to taking a nice walk along the beach.
Thoughts and Ideas
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What and Why, Git LFS?
For a very long time now, I have been dabbling with various platforms for blogging and came to the conclusion recently that I should just stick with WordPress due to my comfort level in use and the understandings of its inner workings. But there’s been a scratch in my brain ever since I had a…
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Design Tokens
Okay, so here we go down memory lane. Back in my days as a design student in college, we were always told to have consistency in our design compositions. Everything from color, typography, imagery, weights of lines, balanced use of similar shapes. But then in senior year, the professors allow us to break out of…
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Monthly Site Audits
After a successful launch of a website, what do you suppose is the first thing you need to set up on your calendar? Reminders, and lots of them! Billing is one of them. Content creation is another. Written blog articles, social media posts, and downloadable content such as pictures, videos, and other various files. All…