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Top 3 reasons to learn the basics of UI design as a Frontend developer
Every year I see frontend developer roadmap videos released, which are filled with tons of latest tools, frameworks and libraries to cover in order to become a successful frontend developer. It’s important to learn them but there is one thing which I see missing in a lot of these articles. This little thing is UI design and let me tell you why with this 3 simple reasons:
1. A Better understanding of the thought process behind UIs
Our main task as front-end developers is mainly to take designs from UI designers and transform them into a website using HTML, CSS and Javascript. But if we don’t have the slightest idea about why a particular colour scheme was chosen or why the blocks which are in UI are positioned in a particular manner then chances we won’t be able to give proper justice to the design. Also understanding things from UI designer’s perspective helps us in giving constructive feedback when we need updates from the team in particular feature designs.
2. A new perspective on minute little things like fonts and spacing
As a developer, whenever I saw a font-family I would usually search for a font, add it in CSS and be done with it. Now I realise that fonts do…
