Ladies of Code LDN | October 2017
In October we had two talks related to front end and design.
Help I'm not a designer! - presented by Shaz Jubeen
Shaz's talk was about setting up developers with best practises when it comes to designing products when they don't have access to a designer. She also talked about how to ensure accessibility is met and how to create a product that looks great.
Shaz is a UI Designer at Tesco. She has worked with a range of companies from startups to large enterprises. Each have their own challenges and finding the best way to integrate and deliver usable products.
Styled components - what are the and why use them? - presented by Jo Franchetti
Jo gave us an introduction to styled components and told us why her team has moved to writing their CSS in JavaScript. She also gave us a live code demo of swapping styles from your traditional stylesheet over into styled components.
Jo is a front end developer with 6 years experience working in various parts of the tech industry from startups, agencies, charities to large organisations like Ticketmaster/Live Nation. She is a coach and organiser of Codebar and a coach at Code Your Future. She also runs a monthly event called Achieving Diversity in the Technology Industry.