Laura Kalbag

Oof that guy is telling on himself.

Me with my conference badge, my name is in pen and is being rubbed out. Natalya and Ismaïl are peering over my shoulder.

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.

YouTube video by Penpot How design and dev innovate together? By Glòria Langreo at GitHub

Here’s s small talk I gave some weeks ago as part of @penpot.app fest 2025 🥰🫶🏻 “We fixed it on Main”

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Loved this talk in person. Nodded my little head off in agreement!

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…

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Yuck, that sounds awful. I hope you found somewhere better!

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.

YouTube video by Coralesce Ltd Laura Kalbag : Why women leave the tech industry

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...

So sorry, Dave. Sending you loads of love.

Oddly, I haven’t signed up for anything with this email. It’s a work chat-only one.

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!)

Penpot | The event that brings design, code and open source together. The design event for designers and developers

Penpot Fest is kicking off now! You can join in and watch live at penpot.app/penpotfest
#penpotFest #penpot #opensource

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🔴

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penpot.app/penpotfest

In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉

Last chance to grab your ticket!
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Component variant examples template Now that component variants have landed in Penpot, I thought it might be handy to share how I would set up and use variants: Variant examples template in the Penpot Hub. This template contains so...

If you’ve got any feedback or questions about the template, I’ve started a post on the Penpot community: community.penpot.app/t/component-...

Penpot Libraries & Templates | Variant examples Ten components showcasing different use cases for variants. Including basic examples, UI components, and variants using design tokens.

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!)

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#Penpot #OpenSource

Thank you for being there. It was so lovely to see you pop up!

Live in 10 minutes!

YouTube video by Penpot Design Systems with Variants | Penpot Hands-On Demo

Variants have landed in @penpot.app and tomorrow I’m doing a live hands-on demo to get you up to date.

I’ll also cover some component basics and design tokens goodness. Join me at 2PM UTC for live Q&A.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuT...

#Penpot

YouTube video by Penpot Design Systems with Variants | Penpot Hands-On Demo

Next week! And yes, that’s right, variants!

Join me live…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuT...

Bitmaps are images saved at a fixed resolution. Vectors are paths that can be scaled to any size while keeping the same resolution.

Learn UI design with our free Penpot course: https://penpot.app/courses/block-1/use-booleans-to-create-complex-shapes/

Penpot Fest panel discussion. Wait, did we just collaborate? Moderator: Laura Kalbag. Panelists: Catina Yiu, Layshi Curbelo, Glòria Langreo.

One month til #PenpotFest! We’ll be topping off Day 2 with a panel on collaboration with the fabulous Catina, Layshi and Glória.

Join us in person!

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When you notice blurry boards in Penpot, it’s a performance feature. You can usually get a sharper rendering of all your boards by selecting the board or zooming in.

Learn UI design with our free Penpot course: penpot.app/courses/bloc...

Memory unlocked: a gang of us sitting at the back of the coach on a school trip to France singing along to Chop Suey. Swiftly followed by the school chaplain asking us if we were all doing ok…

Don't Inherit the Box Model It's time to stop spreading this out-dated practice

Please stop inheriting the box-model. The supposed use-case for that is extremely out-dated, inheritance doesn't really help, and it actively makes real box-sizing use-cases more difficult!

This #CSS best practice was never the best to begin with:

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Penpot Fest Keynote: Laura Kalbag: Who Wants to Be a Unicorn?

Friends! Join me next month in Madrid for #PenpotFest.

I’ve got a fun new talk (and more!) planned. Looking forward to nerding out about @penpot.app , design, and dev in-person…

penpot.app/penpotfest

And happy birthday! You’re one of the best!

❤️ I love how hopeful your post feels. I’ve found 1-1 counselling really helpful, and it’s given me a bunch of tools for what I think of as my mental health tool belt. Pilates is another one of those tools for me too!

Yes please!