ANDY BELL

Meet the educator and web designer who’s helping the community via an astonishing array of side projects

Could you briefly introduce yourself to anyone who doesn’t know you?

I’m Andy, an educator and web designer from the UK. I’m trying to help people learn how to make high performing, accessible and inclusive digital products and websites. I do this while also running a freelance design and development client-services business.

You’ve released a LOT of side projects to help the community: what drives you to do so and how do you find the time?

A lot of the time, these projects come from my own selfish need rather than trying to help the community. It’s usually when I get part of the way through the project that I think, ‘Huh, maybe the community could really benefit from this. I’d better share it’.

A good example of this is my modern CSS reset (https://github.com/hankchizljaw/modern-css-reset), which spent so many years being tinkered with in private. Eventually, though, I gathered some folks might find it handy. Turns out they did!