Dan Spratling

AMA: Brad Frost on Design Systems Wednesday June 25 9AM PT/12PM ET/5PM GMT. Get answers to your biggest questions about design systems from Brad Frost, the world's foremost authority on the subject.

SO EXCITED to do an AMA on design systems with Design Better tomorrow! Join and ask me anything here: designbetterpodcast.com/p/ama-brad-f...

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Had one of these. Didn’t complete it (ran out of time because I had to solve the wrong thing). Ended up dropping the role because of the test which really confused the recruiter - but you should be tested on tubes relevant to the role right? Don’t waste our time

Vue's great but has some odd magical things or opinionated approaches that feel weird to me too.

One thing I never got on with was passing objects to props. It's been a while, but I remember lots of Object.keys/entries conversions 😂

So just had a technical test that expected me to understand, and make changes to, a python API.

This is for a Frontend developer role where I was very upfront that I lean more towards design and have no experience with python 🙃

Congratulations! I'm glad you were able to finally find something (hopefully something great!)

This is so cool! Any chance you could share the css snippet?

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Don’t worry it's not you. I'm in the same boat. A good 1/2 of the companies completely ghosted me, the rest I didn't get through to the interview stage.

I did end up getting one interview for a local company (vs places where you may know the name) so that may be a better market to look at

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Since apparently being a nice person is illegal in the US now, it’s time to pull out my most popular blog post ever.
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It absolutely sucks that specialising in, and being great at, frontend development - understanding designs, design systems, APIs and the overlap into backend that every frontend framework now requires more than every - somehow isn't enough

Yet backend being awful at implementing design is fine

One thing I'm seeing more and more as I'm job hunting

Engineering manager roles managing a full-stack team that require significant backend experience and zero frontend experience

Frontend development isn't a secondary skill, it's equally as nuanced as backend

Let's start treating them equally 👏

A screenshot of BrightPay's login window, with 9 different links to various login pages. All with poorly branded names that don't easily highlight their functionality.

Here's something that really grinds my gears in the UX of the web

In what possible world am I meant to know which of these options is the right login. Why would I need 9 different options for a login?

Let me log in and find my way to what I want to do afterwards

I'm looking for work right now and most of the companies hiring are hiring backend exclusive roles, and full stack roles, but very few frontend exclusive roles and many listed as frontend exclusive still require some backend knowledge (python, laravel, etc)

I have a feeling that this is the reason that many orgs put more weight on backend work than frontend, when typically the roles are equally important (just in different ways).

As usual, Danny hits the nail on the head. 🔨

I’ve had to fight this temptation myself. Cursor changes 50 lines and the lazy part of my brain says "I’m sure it’s fine, just accept the changes".

Seems like a great way to plateau in your growth as a developer. 😬

Yes it's a posthog lawnmower

So I was just browsing the Posthog merch store (no reason 👀) and found the most random merch product I think I've ever seen.

I applied for 3 jobs today, and my brain feels like 🤯

This is going to be super helpful! Thanks 👀

So if like me you're looking for work right now, remember it takes time, to keep tweaking things, and don't let it demotivate you!

I've not written a resume in 5 years (or CV for us Brits)

Even having 10 years of experience, it's really hard to get it to a good enough point where it shows what I can do well

Squeezing each role into a few lines & building excitement is difficult

And that's only one part of job-hunting!

Work louder nomad E keyboard in atomic purple

Nice! I've heard great things about the nuphy keyboards but haven't ever tried one myself.

I also got a similar upgrade for the new year

👏 - Now I'd love to see what your CV looks like now and how it's changed since your first!

(even if you're too good at networking to need one these days 😉)

Well where is it then? 😉

I see so much FUD about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.”

A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs over 10+ years

I totally get that, and you probably want your most recent at the top.

What if you switch the colours so it starts "full" and unfills? Or there's just no colour so there's no filling concept at all?

This looks great but I think it's going backwards?

Like, I see your face as a progression bar that fulls, but it fills more the closer you get to your first role

Absolutely zero shame in saying that in some situations (like docs for & managed by developers) another solution is a better fit 🙌

As one of those Design Engineers currently looking for work, companies are not prioritising this at all right now.

It looks to me like tight budgets means that most people are hiring full stack devs, which tends to have less focus on design overlap (because that's a lot for one person to do well!)