Introducing Coil: A new way to support Design Club
Who fancies trying Coil? We have some free codes to give away — just email hello@designclub.org.uk :)
Why Design Club exists
We exist to nurture empathy, collaboration and problem-solving skills in children. This happens through our community of volunteer mentors, running free design activities in schools and weekend clubs.
We want our resources to remain free forever, so that Design Club is accessible to all. Materials are published under a Creative Commons license, so we need to find other ways of becoming sustainable.
This is where Coil comes in.
What is Coil?
Coil is built on top of a new, open technology called Web Monetisation. Web Monetisation helps create a fairer and kinder web because it’s not based on advertising or collecting (and selling) personal data.
Instead, Coil uses a subscription model. Coil members currently pay $5 a month. When a Coil member browses our site (and other Coil-enabled sites), Design Club gets micropayments.
We’re a non-profit and social enterprise, so every little helps. All funds we receive go right back into developing content and supporting volunteers to run more Design Clubs.
Who fancies trying Coil?
We have some free codes for anyone who wants to give Coil a try for a month.
Coil-enabled sites for designer-y people!
- A List Apart — blog on website design and development
- Pattern Lab — helps you build, view, test and showcase UI components
- Prototypr — all things prototyping, design, wireframing etc
- Puma — mobile browser (ad-free for Coil members)
- Tink — inclusive design blog by Leonie Watson
- Zeldman — blog on web and interaction design by Jeffrey Zeldman
For those that are interested
There are loads more Coil-enabled sites here and here :)
Thanks to
Jemima Gibbons for co-writing this post!
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