About Julie
Julie Ann Horvath is the Head of Design at Clef, the energetic founder of Passion Projects, and an accomplished web developer. She was the first female developer hired at GitHub, the world's largest open-source platform, and has worked for startups like Yammer, Cherry (acquired by Lyft), and a handful of small consultancies like &yet. Julie's interest in web development pairs with her passion for design, and her varied work experience includes more “traditional” tech positions alongside more “traditionally” creative roles. She hosts an acclaimed speaker series of influential women in the tech industry in the SF Bay Area called Passion Projects, highlighting the experiences of women role models to an audience of all genders and identities. She challenges the tech industry to re-imagine workplace culture and industry norms, identifies strongly with “maker” culture and has contributed a lot to open source projects.
Presentation
A Tale of Two Codebases
Whether or not your team expects its designers to write production code, there are some huge benefits of having more overlap between your team's design and development processes. Thinking about design in a modular, object-oriented way can also dramatically improve the experience felt by your end-user. I'd like to tell you two different tales of working with CSS: One is about a UX team @ Amazon whose designers had never professionally pushed code, but were experiencing pain from the disconnect between the design and development processes. And the other is about a young startup whose developers had done most of the designing and writing of CSS until they hired their first design engineer: Me. We'll explore CSS considerations from both the design and engineering sides of the product spectrum and I'll talk a little about how creating a re-usable pattern library with SASS, OOCSS and BEM conventions can empower any team to smooth out an otherwise bumpy product development cycle. Other super fun CSS things we'll discuss working with: "media objects", partials, plug and play animations, & my fave responsive grid system.
