About Pat Dryburgh

Pat Dryburgh is a freelance UI designer from Dorchester, Ontario the Sr. User Experience Designer at Perch in Vancouver, British Columbia. Over the past four years, he has designed websites and applications for clients such as Ben Brooks, CocoaTech, Ethical Coffee Chain, Fraser Speirs, Fusion, Grooveshark, Hello Kelly, Ongo, Patrick Rhone, and UpThemes.

In 2011, Pat designed the UI for QuickCal 3.0, a simple way for Mac users to create calendar events using natural language.

When he's away from his desk, Pat can be found making music with his new band Burn Like Fabulous, taking photos with his Nikon D90 iPhone, creating short films like Imprint and The Rose Is White, or tooting.

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This site was coded by hand in TextMate and Coda on a 15" Unibody Macbook Pro. It is powered by ExpressionEngine and is hosted on the (mt) Grid Service. Text is set in Proxima Nova, served by Typekit. I use iA Writer to draft and edit posts.

I use a number of ExpressionEngine add-ons to make things run smoothly:

Extensions

• Detour - used to set up simple redirects
• Low NoSpam - to prevent comment spam
• Minimee - for minimizing and caching CSS and JavaScript

Plugins

• Gravatar - for pulling up up a user's Gravatar image in the comments
• SmartDown - for smarter MarkDown integration

This site is Minted.