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Insecurities of a frontender

Insecurities of a frontender

We all feel a little bit insecure sometimes, but as a front end developer that happens more than you think. I talk about why that happens and how we can avoid that feeling.

Dave Redfern

March 02, 2016
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    Insecurities of a
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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
    Choose a class
    Middle
    class

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    Working
    class
    Choose a class
    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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    Versatilist
    Someone 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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    Thanks

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