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Direct link to the article Front-End Dissatisfaction (and Backing Off)
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Front-End Dissatisfaction (and Backing Off)

Asko Nõmm reached a breaking point with front end:

I want to have a personal life and not have to spend my nights reading up on some new flavour of *.js in fear that if I don’t I would soon

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Chris Coyier on Feb 13, 2021 (Updated on Mar 1, 2021)
Direct link to the article “The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
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“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”

That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn’t go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’ literally means the browser, and while the job has …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 24, 2020
Direct link to the article #169: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer
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#169: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer

This is a video from my talk at WordCamp US.

Let’s take a peek at what front-end development has become these days. Starting from what the role is, where we sit, and the expectations of us. Then we’ll get into

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Chris Coyier on Feb 7, 2019
Direct link to the article Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS
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Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS

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David Heinemeier Hansson has written an interesting post about the current state of web design and how designers ought to be able to still work on the code side of things:

We build using server-side rendering, Turbolinks, and Stimulus. All

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jan 29, 2019
Direct link to the article What makes someone a good front-end developer?
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What makes someone a good front-end developer?

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We recently covered this exact same thing, but from the perspective of a bunch of developers.

Chris Ferdinandi weighs in:

The least important skills for a front-end developer to have are technical ones.

The nuances of JavaScript. How

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 11, 2018
Direct link to the article Solving Life’s Problems with CSS
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Solving Life’s Problems with CSS

Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.

Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, “Yeah, representing the tech field!” in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp …

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Diana Smith on May 28, 2018
Direct link to the article The spectrum of design roles in 2018
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The spectrum of design roles in 2018

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Job titles is a regular topic around here. Occasionally heated, as job titles play a role in the hiring process (why are you asking me React questions for this UX design position role?). And complicated by the fact …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 23, 2018
Direct link to the article Tales of a Non-Unicorn: A Story About the Roller Coaster of Job Searching
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Tales of a Non-Unicorn: A Story About the Roller Coaster of Job Searching

Hey there! It’s Lara, author of the infamous“Tales of a Non-Unicorn: A Story About the Trouble with Job Titles and Descriptions” from a couple years back. If you haven’t read that original article, I recommend skimming it to give …

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Lara Schenck on Jan 8, 2018
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Getting Nowhere on Job Titles

Last week on ShopTalk, Dave and I spoke with Mandy Michael and Lara Schenck. Mandy had just written the intentionally provocative “Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?” which guided our conversation. Lara is deeply interested …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 16, 2017 (Updated on Oct 19, 2017)
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“lives in a sort of purgatory”

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Brad Frost:

A front-end designer … lives in a sort of purgatory between worlds:

  • They understand UX principles and best practices, but may not spend their time conducting research, creating flows, and planning scenarios
  • They have a keen eye for
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Shared by Chris Coyier on Feb 19, 2017
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The Front End Developer’s Dilemma

Hello, my name is Geoff and I am a web designer. At least, that’s what I tell people I do for a living, because it’s what most people understand.

The truth is, I am a front end developer. If you …

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Geoff Graham on Jul 13, 2015 (Updated on Feb 19, 2017)
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