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 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenell-pizarro/) - Jenell Pizarro on Twitter (https://twitter.com/nellarro) - Alex the CSS Husky (https://codepen.io/davidkpiano/pen/wMqXea) - Chakra UI (https://chakra-ui.com/) - Lodash (https://lodash.com/) - The Crown (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt04786824/) - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (https://www.zelda.com/hyrule-warriors/) - Among Us (https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/among-us-switch/) - Against Empathy (https://bookshop.org/books/against-empathy-the-case-for-rational-compassion/9780062339348) - N.K. Jemisin (https://nkjemisin.com/) - Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13316746/) - couchgames.tv (http://couchgames.tv/) - AnimeJS (https://animejs.com/) - Your Korean Dad, Nick Cho (TikTok) (https://www.tiktok.com/@yourkoreandad?lang=en) - Difficult Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-Matters/dp/0143118447) - The Escapists 2 (https://store.steampowered.com/app/641990/The_Escapists_2/) - Enjoy the Vue on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enjoythevuecast?lang=en) - Enjoy the Vue (https://enjoythevue.io/) Special Guest: Jenell Pizarro.