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Open-Source Software to Empower Digitally Curious Open Publishers, Educators, and Creators

Hello there, fellow digital enthusiasts 👋🏼

Welcome to HibbittsDesign.org – where over two decades of experience in software interaction design, UX consulting, and higher education converge to shape a systems-oriented approach to open-source software.

What’s happening these days?

💻 Docsify Projects (docsify.js.org)

A documentation-style platform for Markdown publishing that requires no Web server, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Docsify Web App

  • Docsify-This.net for open publishers, educators, and those seeking a simple way to share publicly accessible Markdown content

Docsify Starter Kits

🛠 Grav CMS Projects (getgrav.org)

A highly customizable Markdown publishing platform, powered by the versatile Twig template language.

🛟 Online Course Design

To help teams and individual educators create better online experiences for their students, the Canvas LMS site for my most recent highly successful offering of SFU CMPT-363 User Interface Design (which was redesigned as an online and more scalable variation of the traditional 3rd-year face-to-face course) remains public. The source content for this course, along with the previous two offerings, is also available at the CMPT-363 Hub Standalone site built with the Docsify Open MultiCourse Starter Kit.

🙏🏼 Open Source Contributions

I also support several related open-source projects, including Mastodon, Docsify, Docsify-Themeable and Grav CMS.

☕️ Informational Meetups

As someone who has benefited from informational interviews very early in his career, I welcome similar requests for coffee meetups in #YVR when my extensive experience in higher education instruction, the craft of interaction design and professional consulting practices can be of value.

💼 Guest Lectures

Are you teaching a UX, Web/Software design or publishing course in Vancouver/Burnaby/Surrey? I am offering several possible guest lecture/discussion topics for local in-person classes based on my open source experiences.

🌱 Always learning, always designing, always building

GitHub Streak

Services provided

To help increase adoption and help fund my open source work, I offer professional services related to my Docsify and Grav CMS projects to help open publishers, educators and others leverage Markdown software and workflows more effectively. Services include consulting, premium support subscriptions, workshops, and custom development. Sound of interest? Send a note to [email protected].

Supporting my projects

  • Star one or more of my projects on GitHub⭐️
  • Help spread the word about my projects on social media📢

Interested in financially supporting my open source work? I’d be honoured if you pledge the same funds to another open source project of your choice.

Connect with me

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  1. docsify-open-course-starter-kit docsify-open-course-starter-kit Public template

    A ready-to-use template to create a Docsify Markdown-based open course website. Global navigation elements can be hidden for seamlessly embedding pages (i.e. into an LMS). Includes an optional "Edi…

    42 17

  2. docsify-open-multicourse-starter-kit docsify-open-multicourse-starter-kit Public template

    A MultiCourse variation of the Docsify Open Course Starter Kit to quickly create a Markdown-based open multi-course site with the site generator Docsify. Global navigation elements can be hidden fo…

    10 4

  3. docsify-open-publishing-starter-kit docsify-open-publishing-starter-kit Public template

    A ready-to-use template to create a Docsify Markdown-based article, tutorial, portfolio or documentation website. Global navigation elements can be hidden for seamlessly embedding pages into other …

    48 27

  4. docsify-this docsify-this Public

    A lightweight Markdown open publishing tool, based on the Docsify Open Publishing Starter Kit. Finalist in the Open Infrastructure category for the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence. Mirror…

    104 19

  5. grav-skeleton-course-hub grav-skeleton-course-hub Public

    Open Course Hub uses a customized version of the Bootstrap4 theme to support a collaborative and version-controlled workflow using Markdown and Git Sync. Includes example single course hub content …

    CSS 46 12

  6. grav-skeleton-open-publishing-space grav-skeleton-open-publishing-space Public

    Open Publishing (Blogging) Space uses a customized version of the Quark theme to support the creation, sharing and collaborative editing of Markdown-based blogs. Includes Admin Panel and Git Sync p…

    CSS 27 16

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Sponsoring

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