#front end design

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[finokoye]

An adventure in online collections: making the Objects Revealed microsite

As someone who is passionate about Black history and actually putting my skills to the benefit of the community, when a stakeholder proposed creating a microsite to host images and stories from a selection of the archive, I had to say yes. 

After all, online archives are one of my biggest passions when it comes to doing digital for museums and heritage. There are so many deep, interconnected problems and so much that is needed to make them truly accessible and usable for people that it’s the kind of thing a critical service designer like myself just leaps at the opportunity to start tinkering with.

About a month ago, I was approached by a curator asking if I’d be interested in joining this small project with a tight deadline. Of course I said yes - it was bound to be interesting and besides, it was contributing to an online archive for Black Cultural Archives (BCA).

The first step was to understand requirements for the microsite and who it was intended for. Through conversations with the curator and the rest of he team, I came to understand the range of content formats that would be on the site, but also what the long term plan was. This helped me understand what kind of calls to action would be placed and where along the various user journeys.

There wasn’t much in the way of audience research from the organisation but through these conversations, I also learned that this project’s aim was as much to reach out to new, younger audiences who might not even know about the BCA yet alone feel confident perusing an archive. This was enough to start digging into wider museum research about Gen Z, what works best for online archives and what the pitfalls are.

A couple of articles that I started with are:

7 THINGS YOUR MUSEUM OR NONPROFIT NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT GEN Z

Generation Z perceptions about museums quality and E-WOM intentions - The role of technologies on visitor experience

Author’s note: I would always recommend trawling through academia.edu and researchgate.net for contextual studies and methodologies, no matter the project! It might feel like it will take too much time, but it’s always worth it.

The output of this first stage included the following goals and requirements:

Goals

A website that doesn’t look like the usual BCA website (so we don’t need to strictly follow the style for the main site) - “Not too corporate” was a repeated phrase

A website that encourages people to contribute information, share and get in touch with BCA/the curators

Requirements

Each photo should have set information e.g. 

ID number 

Provenance 

Materials made 

Estimated date 

Curators quote 

Specimen information (NB: Information provided might be several paragraphs long)

I also whipped up some wireframes for page layouts and components:

Design

The first stage was creating a visual identity for the microsite. If we wanted something non-corporate, it wasn’t enough just to rely on the images and copy themselves. 

Sandra had provided me some photos of objects that might be in the online archive so I used these to quickly create some design approaches. The first was based on the idea of ‘Texture’, trying to bring the same sensation as if you could touch the objects for yourself (you can check the early experiments out on Instagram); the second was based on ‘Pattern and shape’.

To see how this might look in action, I created some mid fidelity page designs using Figma, which were also used for testing out colour schemes:

Upon review, we both agreed that ‘Pattern and shape’ concept was a bit more accessible which led to the next stage...

Testing

Tools like Usability hub are absolutely fabulous for doing lean UX. Once I had the design direction and layouts sorted, I set up a test on usability hub to get people’s feedback - where would they click to find out more information about an object, for example; what do they think of the overall design?

There was a lot of helpful feedback regarding the design such as: 

the amount of info shown on e.g. the collections page

the overall layout and design concepts

Obviously the sample is biased as I shared it through my networks on twitter and slack groups, but there were some statements clearly from non-designers which showed one should never underestimate the user, nor overestimate the extent our worries as designers are... more about us than them!

At this point, I had to focus on building the website in Squarespace. I had never created a website using this CMS and I spent a long time getting used to the way it worked, how much could be changed out of the box and what needed bespoke HTML/CSS. It was never as I expected and in fact towards the end I had to reach out to some front end dev friends to solve a particularly thorny section styling issue.

Because I was focused on coding and the brand, I invited a junior UI/UX designer, Ejiro Jude, to help finesse the UI design of the microsite. Together we finessed the layout, thought up some new features and then I worked on making this a reality (or at least, as much as possible). Ejiro did a great job coming up with features that could improve the strategic user experience.

The final concept for the design direction, which used some subtle gradients and patterns. I still kept some of the texture concept by granulating by the backgrounds.

In about two weeks, we had finished the design and most of the website building. Unfortunately fiddling with Squarespace took most of my time so I wasn’t able to add the filter component to the Collections page, (although that is on the list for the next phase of development!). I spent an additional week doing a lot of copy editing, making sure the alt text made sense and also doing last minute urgent tweaks that were required by BCA.

So what did I learn?

This was a really great project as it allowed me to do a bit of everything, from project management with trello and research to product design and development. It was also the first time I’ve worked as a design team lead and I learned a lot about really clarifying what is expected and committing to the way people prefer to communicate. To wrap up the project, I wrote a short report which was shared with the stakeholders, providing a quick overview of key data such as which objects were most viewed.

I’m really excited for the next phase as I’d love to finish the much awaited filter component and also develop some simple interactives. I can’t say that I became an expert Squarespace developer (ha!) but I’m very much the kind of person who hates being defeated and I do want to develop the skills I learned specific to this CMS. Now I’ve figured how it works, I am determined to finish the website as I want it.

Want to see it for yourself? Check out Objects Revealed here.

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[gleamsocial]

Jakob’s Law of the Web User Experience states that ‘users spend most of their time on other websites.’  This means that they form their expectations for your site based on what’s commonly done on most other sites. If you deviate, your site will be harder to use and users will leave.

Rule #1: | Jakob Nielsen

[eyepeeling]

Embrace whitespace in your front end design.

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[gigamein]

React Redux Interview Questions

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[hirewebsitedesigner]

The Front End Developer – Who Makes The Web Look What It Is!

In the contemporary world that is visually and technically urbane, access to information and knowledge is apparently much easier when compared to making sense of the same or to decide its legitimacy - on the internet, pages and applications are created in order to present and put all the data or relationships in perspective. This entire activity of building pages and applications and presenting the same perspective on the web is termed as front-end web development.

Who are Front-end Web developers?

Front-end web developers formerly called as front end designers are the people who design and code beautiful, interactive client-facing websites. They basically ensure that all data looks as close as possible to the web design and also that users are able to easily navigate through the browser and access the required information.

Why You Need a Front End Developer?

In small companies, you are highly expected to be the end-to-end developer and take care of everything right from the database to the User Interface. This was easy to do in the old days when the UI was little more than a layout table with some sliced graphics. With new technologies coming into play, the complexity level of the front end is becoming equivalent to back end and due to this you need to be dependent on the JavaScript libraries, plug-ins and boilerplates. That's the reason why you need a Front End Developer. "An experienced Front End Wed Development Company has the ideal resource which can offer the following value additions to your business"

Latest knowledge of all kinds of emerging technologies

Wide-ranging experience of employing the facto standards of the web as well as different patterns of programming

Configuration and manipulation of databases and data respectively

Execution across manifold platforms and legal software applications

Aggregation of data

Sourcing of graphics and creating them

Search engine optimization services (SEO)

A detailed understanding of the aesthetics and factors of web designing

Hire XHTML Developer who can offer all the above listed value additions to your company.

How to hire Front-end Web developers?

In order to know the front end web developer skill and competencies, one simple thing that can be done during the process of hiring candidates is to provide them with a Photoshop document or a firework document and ask them to convert the same into a standard-based layout. This will help you in immediately ascertaining if the candidates have the required front end web developer skill and do you really need to spend more time interviewing them or not.

Skill sets of Front end Developer

The following are the skill sets of a front end web developer:

Excel in multiple disciplines that are relevant

Excellent Knowledge of JavaScript and JQuery

Highly skilled with Photoshop

Be able to test the compatibility in cross-browser and cross-platforms for any inconsistencies that might exist

Have knowledge of programming interaction between JavaScript and JUI or Prototype

Be able to review designs against heuristics of usability

Proficient at converting PSD composition into code

Have sufficient knowledge and experience to interpret graphic visual designs and also interaction designs in languages like Java Script, CSS, and HTML.

You can Hire HTML 5 Developer with the above listed skill sets in order to get the required value addition to your company.

[joenblog-blog]

React is a new JavaScript library created by Facebook for creating user interfaces. Joe Public ⁿ Developer Chris Pitt (@followchrisp) has written a series of tutorials on Medium, to help get you going.

>React Tutotials

[frontlinedev-blog]

Interview Remorse

Went in for a client interview for this upcoming project and was pleasantly surprised at the tail end by an impromptu 20-question quiz about basic front line dev questions by their lead developer. For the most part the quiz was relatively easy, but there were some questions that instinctually garnered the JFGI (if you aren't familiar with the acronym, JFGI) response. Either that, or I couldn't eloquently explain them in lament's terms without losing someone not in the field. 

For your enjoyment and my embarrassment, here are a few selections that I could have done better on.

2 ways to clear a float:

Quirksmode tip to clearing floats

CSS Tricks guide to clearing floats

What is the difference between Quirks Mode vs. Strict/Standards Mode:

Quirks mode vs. Standards mode

How many doctypes can you name:

List of Doctypes by W3C

Style the last element of a list:

CSS3 last child

Event Bubbling vs. Event Capture:

Event order by QuirksMode

[frontlinedev-blog]

Quickly and effortlessly generate your own responsive grid template.

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Powerful JavaScript animation library for jQuery.

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Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery - v0.1.3

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Shapes using CSS as a single HTML element.

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Cross browser styleable scrollbars with jQuery and CSS

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Get a package of web-safe font formats and css markup for your @font-face web design