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What made you interested in pursuing a career in front end development?
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Amanda’s Answer
Hey Danielle!
While front-end development has never been in my job title, I've worked with several professionals in this area during my time as a Knowledge Manager and content creator in the video games industry. For me, I'm personally very passionate about facilitating the creation of accessible web spaces for everyone. Now that we're in a highly digital world, the barriers for individuals who are neurodiverse or who may have visual or audio differences have increased. Front-end development gives you an opportunity to really advocate for change, and to innovate the future of how users (whether they have divergent needs or not) will interact with our technology, tools, and services. That's really cool to me.
The team member that I worked alongside was passionate about having diverse opportunities. She was able to do a lot of different projects as a front-end developer and she liked not having a "copy and paste" day-to-day. Each project was a new opportunity to create something fresh, and she enjoyed working with new people and learning more about their businesses to develop spaces that could really wow their partners and associates. Unlike some other traditional or digitalized creative roles, working as a front-end developer gives you the flexibility to work with any company in any industry as long as they have a presence online or are developing, or altering, the software that their employees are using to conduct business. This can help with job security, and also gives you flexibility as you advance in your career. Maybe you start working in a traditional tech company, for example, and then decide you want to shift into something like...the medical industry. You can do that and your skillset in this type of role will largely transfer, while that is not true for more specific roles in computer science.
Good interface design is pivotal to the way that people receive, and use, the services that businesses are developing. If something is poorly designed, it can impact the company's reputation, it can cost businesses customers and partners, in some cases, it can even lead to legal challenges. It's a really important and in-demand path and it's a profession that, in its current state, can grow with you as you develop further into your life. You can typically have a flexible or remote work arrangement (depending on the company), which allows you more options in where you live and what opportunities you can apply for (compared to some other professions that would require your physical presence 100% of the time).
While front-end development has never been in my job title, I've worked with several professionals in this area during my time as a Knowledge Manager and content creator in the video games industry. For me, I'm personally very passionate about facilitating the creation of accessible web spaces for everyone. Now that we're in a highly digital world, the barriers for individuals who are neurodiverse or who may have visual or audio differences have increased. Front-end development gives you an opportunity to really advocate for change, and to innovate the future of how users (whether they have divergent needs or not) will interact with our technology, tools, and services. That's really cool to me.
The team member that I worked alongside was passionate about having diverse opportunities. She was able to do a lot of different projects as a front-end developer and she liked not having a "copy and paste" day-to-day. Each project was a new opportunity to create something fresh, and she enjoyed working with new people and learning more about their businesses to develop spaces that could really wow their partners and associates. Unlike some other traditional or digitalized creative roles, working as a front-end developer gives you the flexibility to work with any company in any industry as long as they have a presence online or are developing, or altering, the software that their employees are using to conduct business. This can help with job security, and also gives you flexibility as you advance in your career. Maybe you start working in a traditional tech company, for example, and then decide you want to shift into something like...the medical industry. You can do that and your skillset in this type of role will largely transfer, while that is not true for more specific roles in computer science.
Good interface design is pivotal to the way that people receive, and use, the services that businesses are developing. If something is poorly designed, it can impact the company's reputation, it can cost businesses customers and partners, in some cases, it can even lead to legal challenges. It's a really important and in-demand path and it's a profession that, in its current state, can grow with you as you develop further into your life. You can typically have a flexible or remote work arrangement (depending on the company), which allows you more options in where you live and what opportunities you can apply for (compared to some other professions that would require your physical presence 100% of the time).
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Aaron’s Answer
I used to be a UX (User eXperience) Engineer, perhaps another term for Front-end developer back in the days (and now). The major paths for a software engineer would be are you front-end or back-end, and in today's world there's full stack! I prefer front-end over back-end because I find it more interesting to see my creation visually and able to interact with them. Making sure all interactive components look and work the way they should is just my cup of tea. It also bugs me to see certain things off by couple of pixels and misaligned, so that helps for me to do my job as thorough and committed as I can. Front-end skillsets are also something i prefer than back-end, eg: HTML, CSS, Angular, React JS, Twitter Bootstrap, etc. Comparing to being a back-end developer, i need to be more focused on security, performance, payloads, APIs, infrastructures, Design patterns. But I must warn you that in today's world, a front-end developer may need to also be responsible for performance and SEO (search engine optimization) so tools like Google Lighthouse will be your friend. All-in-all I personally felt being front-end savvy is more fun and interesting compared to back-end.
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Tare’s Answer
I've had experience in data analysis, and one big part of data analysis is summarizing information. Data visualization becomes relevant there, and front-end development is relevant to data visualization