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Posts tagged with Front-End

The Hubris of Front-End Developers

A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies need to do to hire "great FE engineers", that A developers are attracted by other A players but more…

The Care and Feeding of your Front End Development Team

At the start of the year, I highlighted what I thought was the formula for getting and developing front-end engineers. To summarize, it's a combination of: identifying the right traits, cross-pollinating developers from disparate disciplines, and attracting talent…

Fragments of the Web

With Apple's introduction of the Retina-display-equipped Macbook, we're starting to enter a transitional period in display resolutions. As usual, Apple's leading the charge while keeping things simple via pixel doubling, but much like Android…

It's a User Interface, not a Feature Interface

Designed by engineers. It invokes visions of legacy Windows programs, burdened by buttons and menus and dropdowns consisting of all its features and devoid of aesthetic pretense. It is undeniably and unabashedly functional, yet is barely understandable and nigh unusable…

How to get Front-End Developers

Javascript has won the internet. It beat out Actionscript/Flex in mobile, while a new breed of MVC, client-side frameworks are taking over jobs that used to employ server-side code (e.g., your Rails's, Djangos, and CakePHPs). For…

Good UI Begets Great UI

With the recent updates to apps like Flipboard and Path[1] (not to mention the existing base of well-designed apps on iOS), it's about time iOS developers are breaking away from the standard mobile app UI. They'…