rails girls lighting talk

Coding is Cool

Maaike Beenen

Maaike

• Founder of Pink Moose designGraphic design & UX designwww.pinkmoose.fi

• Founder of UX FinlandOrganizing World Usability Day 13.11.2014www.uxfinland.com

• Marketing Manager at Mypose www.mypose.fi

• Most important job though: Mum of two lovely kids

80’s The story begins…

90’s/early 2000

Nowadays

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Coding is cool because?

• You can influence the design • It’s fun to figure out how to do something new

and make it work! Problem solving skills!• It’s acceptable to listen to music with

headphones on and drink lots of coffee• Necessary skills nowadays in design, you

should at least understand basics and possibilities of coding

Survival skills neededas a designer

• Ruby on rails / textedit / Dreamweaver etc. - any coding program

• Html(5)/CSS(3) knowledge and anything on top of that is a plus

• Some ‘Sisu’, enthusiasm and Google search

Thanks and have fun coding!

Maaike Beenenwww.pinkmoose.fi

maaike@pinkmoose.fi050 599 3116