About Diana
Diana is a product designer at Etsy, based in Brooklyn NY. She takes a considered approach to design, thrives on collaboration, and likes to turn dull meetings into fun and productive experiences through the powers of facilitation with a few sharpies and some post-it notes. Alongside product work, Diana helps teach other designers how to push code and contribute to Etsy's style guide. As a self-taught coder, she draws on her own learning experiences, and uses design-thinking to understand and improve upon the on-boarding and training process. In her spare time she likes to draw robots and make playlists for her music blog.
Presentation
Empowering Designers Who Code
If you're a designer who wants to code, you can learn a lot from online tutorials, side-projects, and contributing to opensource. However, unless you get to work on something with a significant user base, you're unlikely to get exposed to the experiences that will help you write product-level code. For most designers the best way to learn serious front-end development is on the job. Many companies want to attract designer-coders, but they need to back this up with a culture that embraces them, and supports designers with training, tooling, and documentation. In this talk you'll learn how you and your team can build a designer-friendly coding environment to improve design workflows, team collaboration, and product design decisions.