Front End Design FTW

Hi Matt.

I've been designing for about 22.35 years

15 of these have been designing the internets.

So... i'm a web

designer right?

Oooooh, a startup!

Platform

Development

UX & Design

Banky

Things

Platform

Development

Design

Dev

(My job)

(Their job)

Do not cross the line!!

Platform

Development

So i met @simonswiss,

we ate eggs & talked...

Website Redesign

A refreshingly different collaboration.

Uber Partnership

From brief to delivery in 24 hours.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It was fun. And pretty darn efficient!

The Next Step

Time to throw this guy in the deep end.

Pug (Jade)

An excellent gateway drug to programming.

loops // partials // includes // preprocessing // command line // build tools // `npm install` // `git push`...

Such Learn?!#

A good mentor is invaluable.

(Make sure they're available 365, 24/7 like @simonswiss)

Dev's don't bite.

(Except if you ask them to style select fields - you should never do that.)

Designing in the browser is incredibly empowering.

 

Don't try and learn everything.

Collaborating is super fun.

and after a while

I began to feel like...

SocietyOne - About us

(or Uber part 2)

CMS

Dev

Design

UX

 

UniMatt

UniSimon

We made it! (just)

Conclusion

Front-end design is awesome,

but can be challenging.

Moving Parts

Nimble

Design

Dev

Data

Copy

Marketing

Team

Business

Design

Dev

Data

Copy

Marketing

Team

Business

Design

Dev

Data

Copy

Marketing

Team

Business

Design

Dev

Data

Copy

Marketing

Team

Business

Front-End Design

It's working pretty well for us.

We love it.

Give it a try!

Thank You!

Front End Design FTW

By simonswiss

Front End Design FTW

Slides for SydCSS talk by @m4ttbx and @simonswiss // 3rd November 2016

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