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A front-end developer's skill-set lies on a spectrum within UI/UX <--> back-end #2

Open laras126 opened 6 years ago

laras126 commented 6 years ago

I'm thinking something like this:

Diagram of the spectrum of skills in front-end development

The point being, there are two ends in the spectrum of front-end development, and most of us lie on either side of the spectrum. I'm not sure if this is the right way to plot it, but it's a start!

withinsight commented 6 years ago

SO great you're working on an interactive version. I wrote this post waaaay back in 2015, if it helps: https://medium.com/@withinsight1/the-front-end-spectrum-c0f30998c9f0

The graphic I created was actually included by Cody Lindley as the cover image for Part III of the Front-End Developer Handbook.

laras126 commented 6 years ago

@withinsight Heyyy that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I'm hoping to hook it into this quiz thing, and it can plot for you https://codepen.io/laras126/pen/gRZMrJ. We shall see!

j9t commented 6 years ago

The graph seems to suggest an order, from “UI/UX” over “frontend” to “backend”. Alas, the graph design (mostly through the elevated “frontend” label) suggests either a triangle “UI”/“frontend”/“backend”, or an affair between UI and backend (I hope you can follow).

Aligning “UI/UX”, “frontend”, and “backend” on one axis (that is, the same horizontal line—perhaps all at the bottom, or at the top) could make the intent more clear, as might going from “frontend” on the left to “backend” on the right, if the discussion proposes that focus on the technical attributes (frontend and backend work) suffices.