Episode 52: Making People Happy with UX Developer Jenell Pizarro

Key Points From This Episode: Jenell’s journey into coding and how she fell into front end and UX development. Job titles in the UI/UX space and perspectives on the difference between the two. Diving deeper into the difference between a UX designer and a UX developer. Challenges UX developers face at different stages of an app’s development. How clients test apps in their beta phase and developers solve problems they find. Perspectives on how to decide when an accessibility issue can no longer be ignored. Struggles between accessibility ethics and the profit-focused priorities of stakeholders. How important it is for developers to have soft skills like EQ and empathy. The importance of making your code accessible to other developers too. Readability issues in code such as how to write the index variable in a JavaScript loop. Pet-peeves about best practices and language features of JavaScript. This week’s top picks; games, TV shows, and books! Tweetables: “That's my goal in life is to ensure that people forget that they're actually even using the application, because it becomes such a normal part of their life, that it just becomes second nature.” — @nellarro [0:01:43] “It's a human right to be able to use the Internet. I feel as developers, we need to make sure that all humans can use the web, period.” — @nellarro [0:28:08] “I think that's really important is making sure that your code is readable for an engineer to be able to look at your code and be like, ‘I get that. I see what's happening.’” — @nellarro [0:33:19] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Jenell Pizarro on LinkedIn Jenell Pizarro on Twitter Alex the CSS Husky Chakra UI Lodash The Crown Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Among Us Against Empathy N.K. Jemisin Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun couchgames.tv AnimeJS Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho (TikTok) Difficult Conversations The Escapists 2 Enjoy the Vue on Twitter Enjoy the Vue Special Guest: Jenell Pizarro.Support Enjoy the Vue