Basic UX for Developers with Hilary Stohs-Krause
What are the basics of building a decent user interface on a web page? Carl and Richard talk to Hilary Stohs-Krause about her experience helping folks build websites - you don't have to be a designer to make something useable! Hilary talks about steering clear of more complex UX libraries unless you know the site owner prefers them. Keeping things simple and consistent is best! The conversation also digs into accessibility and how accessibility needs are a great guide to a decent basic design - making a site that can help everyone understand the pages you've built a great path to a very useable website.
Guests:
Hilary Stohs-Krause
Hilary Stohs-Krause is a childhood coder turned public radio journalist turned software engineer. She's passionate about the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship and social justice, and serves on the boards for a tech and entrepreneurship festival, a tech inclusivity conference, and a social good startup accelerator. Currently a senior software engineer at Red Canary, she's a regular podcast guest and conference speaker, both nationally and internationally. She became obsessed with plants during the pandemic, and will read any fantasy or sci-fi she can get her hands on.
Links:
- grep.app https://grep.app/
- Red Canary https://redcanary.com/
- SquareSpace https://www.squarespace.com/
- Wix https://www.wix.com/
- TailwindCSS https://tailwindcss.com/
- Bootstrap https://getbootstrap.com/
- Science of Great UI http://www.sgui.com/
- Web Accessibility https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/
- HTML Semantic Elements https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/tools/list/