Schalk Venter
🔧 Front-end Development / 🎨 UI Design / 🌍 Social Good / ❤️ Destigmatising mental illness
The whom, why, when and WTF
"In the early days of UI design, proprietary tools like Flash allowed designers to create extremely engaging and fluid animations. However, as the world of software moved away from proprietary tooling to open-source solutions, those tools disappeared, leaving fewer options for creating really engaging animations. Over time, platforms have gradually introduced better options, and we are finally finding ourselves at a precipice where current tooling has not only caught up, but even surpassed the initial solutions from years ago."
The whom, why, when and WTF
Explore the intriguing journey of design, uncovering how good design can transform into bad design. Gain valuable insights from past experiences to elevate your design perspective and avoid common pitfalls. Discover what you wish you knew!
Beyond read-only interfaces
Mental Illness and Vurnerability in Tech
How does on Interaction Design?
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Javascript, API's and Markup as Tech Stack
Who the heck is this guy?
HTML goes brrrrrrrrrrrr
Exploring the strangest canvas
How does on Interaction Design?
Design goals beyond "make it pretty"
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Lets build your first website!
Imperfection in a world of debugging
How does one even product design?
Javascript, API's and Markup as Tech Stack
Beyond read-only interfaces
The whom, why and WTF
Feeding a money machine with fresh users
You are not the user
Stealing like an artist
Exploring the strangest canvas
Text-fields, checkboxes, dropdowns, oh my!
Providing users with controls to find content
Registration and sign-in userflows.
How do we design interaction?
Let's talk pitfalls, patterns and pain.
The why of modern-day conventions
Overview of ID200-4 Practical Project
WooCommerce and e-Commerce
Getting Wordpress on the World Wide Web
A presentation that attempts to serve as a primer for using the open-source Netlify CMS platform, by means of a very simple 'Hello World'-esque Netlify CMS implementation.
A (hopefully!) easy guide for front-end developers interested in getting started (and avoiding common pitfalls) learning GraphQL.
A deep dive into what exactly ES6 is and some core features it introduces to the JavaScript language.
How to use feature detection to ensure that styling from the frontiers of front-end development do not break older browsers.