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David Luhr

I want to make the web more accessible and responsible.

I’m a design engineer who’s passionate about accessible design and development, eliminating waste, and creating quality learning content.

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I work full-time at Buffer as Senior Design Engineer, where I bridge design and development to oversee technical strategy for Buffer’s marketing site and blog.

Outside of my full-time role, I enjoy creating educational content in the following ways:

  • being a guest on podcasts and livestreams
  • speaking or teaching workshops at conferences
  • writing articles
  • creating courses

If you’re interested in working together or collaborating, feel free to email me directly: team@buildux.co

I don’t do ad reads, affiliate programs, or sponsored content.

Educational content

Build UX is my YouTube channel that focuses on best practices for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and designer-developer collaboration. I am committed to providing free, quality education to teach accessibility as a natural part of building great websites and products.

Build UX on YouTube

Course: Accessibility-first design

My LinkedIn Learning course has over 13,000 students who have learned my process of accessibility-first design. The course covers foundational accessibility throughout the product development process, including content design, visual design, and continuous accessibility testing.

Learn accessibility-first design

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Clients I’ve worked with

From 2020 to 2021, I worked closely with Tailwind Labs, the team behind Tailwind CSS, Tailwind UI, Refactoring UI, and more.

My work was focused on accessible design and development, including building the official Figma kits for Tailwind UI, coding new Tailwind UI components, and supporting accessibility efforts for Headless UI.

From 2021 onward, my work with the team at Tasseled focused on developing their accessibility, design, engineering, and team practices.

My work involved redesigning the marketing site and web app, overhauling accessibility throughout the product, defining engineering standards such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), and introducing true lean processes to all disciplines.