Liz Girdwood

(Part 2/2) Still, in 2025, I completed one of the biggest independent web projects of my career, something I’m incredibly proud of.

Since late 2025, contracts have ended, and while I’m ready to re-engage, finding new retainers has been tougher than expected.

I’m sharing this...

(Part 1 /2) I’ve always shown up on Contra as the professional version of myself, but lately I’ve been thinking about how little space we leave for the human side of our stories.

My 2024–2025 journey as an independent designer hasn’t gone the way I imagined. When I moved to...

I took inspo from another designer on here and finally tackled a task I’d been dodging… SEO-optimising my entire portfolio case studies.

Not the most glamorous job, but future-me trying to hit 10k months will thank present-me.

If you’ve been putting off backend stuff because it’s “not creative enough”… This is your sign 🚨✨

My very first entry for a challenge on Contra! Say hello to Timeline Tuner, the designer’s new timeline-predicting crystal ball built entirely in Builder.io with Fusion. You feed it all the messy, real-world details — is it e-commerce? Are there 3 pages or 13? Do you need...