S9:E5 - Why you should understand user interface and design (Mina Markham)
We chat with Mina Markham, senior engineer at Slack and creator of the Pantsuit User Interface for Hilary Clinton's 2016 campaign, about how she goes about making user interfaces and design, as well as some of her favorite resources and tools.
No matter how good of an idea you have for a product, if the design isn't executed well and people don't like the interface, the product might as well not even exist. To talk about the importance of good user interfaces and design, we brought in Mina Markham, senior engineer at Slack and creator of the Pantsuit User Interface for Hilary Clinton's 2016 campaign
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- Compiler (sponsor)
- Stellar (sponsor)
- imgix (sponsor)
- Figma
- CodeNewbie Survey
- webpack
- Task Runner
- Udacity
- Pluralsight
- Code School
- Smashing Magazine
- Flash
- Skeuomorphism
- Markup
- Bootstrap
- CSS Animations
- Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI pattern library
- Slack
- Gulp
- Grunt
- Jen Simmons
- Rachel Andrew
- CSS-Tricks
- Sketch
- Memphis (typeface)
- Inverted Triangle CSS
- React Component
- GreenSock: GSAP
Mina Markham
Mina is actively involved in the tech community, teaching for Black Girls Code and founding the Dallas chapter of Girl Develop It and DFW Sass. In addition, she has presented at various conferences, including Front-End Design Conference, Midwest.io and Distill. Lastly, she's co-organizer of Front Porch, a conference on front-end web technologies for developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and managers.