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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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