Insecurities of a frontender

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Insecurities of a frontender

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Web Designer UI Designer Front End Developer Something else…

What am I?

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Insecurities of a frontender

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Belongingness is the human emotional need to be an accepted member of a group.

What is belongingness?

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Primary Secondary Reference

Belongingness falls into three categories

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Small clusters of people who share intimate and personal relationships.

Primary Groups

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Large clusters of people who have a mutually shared purpose.

Secondary Groups

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Groups we compare ourselves to for the purpose of evaluating our behavior.

Reference Groups

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Working class

Choose a class

Middle class

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Working class

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Middle class

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Working class

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Middle class

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Geek

Are you a geek?

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Designer

Which are you?

Developer

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Designer

Which are you?

Developer

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Designer

Which are you?

Developer

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All code is not equal

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If front end development was a brand. We’d be having a brand crisis.

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Front End Developer UI Developer Client-Side Developer UI Engineer

Who are we?

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Design Engineer Front End Architect Designer / Developer Prototyper

Who are we?

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Understand UX principles and best practices Keen eye for aesthetics Can write some JavaScript Understand the importance of backend development

What is our role?

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Designer

What is a frontender?

Developer

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Designer

What is a frontender?

Developer

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Designer Developer

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Designer Developer

Designer

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Designer Developer

Back End Developer

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Designer Developer

WordPress Developer

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Designer Developer

Front End Developer

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Designer Developer

Generalist

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VersatilistSomeone who can be a specialist for a particular discipline, while at the same time be able to change to another role with the same ease.

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“A UI Engineer’s ultimate goal is to create great

customer experiences, just like our designers. This is why

they’re on the Design team.”

Optimizely

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“Front End Dev is a melting pot of design & dev skills to implement accessible UIs to

accepted standards.”

FutureLearn

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“It’s important that we have generalists that can bleed across

these lines. Up until a short while ago, we were not doing

enough to foster the practice of design implementation.”

Shopify

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“People who are skilled at frontend design are in a great

position to help bridge the divide between the design and

development worlds.”Brad Frost

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