Creative Developer

Work Location : Abu Dhabi

Years of Experience:

• 3+ years of experience.
• 2+ years of experience as UX designer.

Key Responsibilities :

• Extensive skills and creative way of thinking of solutions when styling.
• making the best of efficient code in all languages; knowing how to use browsers developer tool to analyse it.
• Giving feedback on what is and what isn’t accessible for people with cognitive or non-cognitive disabilities and optimizing HTML code in consequence.
• Being aware of what can be used, what can’t, CSS-prefixes, Js poly fills and more, to make it work on multiple browsers.
• Being aware of the best choices of tags and naming for further styling, Javascript DOM manipulations, accessibility and SEO.
• Relatively good skills and vision of how the DOM works and how to control it in the most efficient way possible.
• Delivering multiple formats of screens through CSS breakpoints and being aware of the most used resolutions.
• Using HTML the best way possible to facilitate future SEO.
• Checking fidelity vis-à-vis designs and quality of code; testing behaviours in different browsers and screen resolutions.
• Developing and maintaining design wireframes (basic mock-ups of applications) and specifications. 
• Work on cross-platform applications to develop user experiences covering mobile phones, tablets and computers
• Redesign systems in all platform to make them more responsive
• Work collaboratively with other designers, product design and development teams, business analysts, engineers, and project managers
• Attend meetings to discuss and review progress on the project
• Identify areas for improvement
• Keep up to date with technological innovations and new tools.
• Conducting product testing to identify problems and areas for improvement within the customer experience
• Staying up to date with industry trends and best practices
• Adjusting design concepts as consumer and market needs change.

Educational and Technical Qualifications: 

• Strong sense in motion, arts and interactivity.
• Knowledge of micro interactions and web animations.
• Adobe Creative Suites. Figma is optional
• CMS : knowing how the CMS works; what languages, frameworks and libraries exist within it and how the architecture work. Mainly WordPress, Drupal, Magento and Prestation.
• Using browsers developer tool to edit HTML, CSS and outputting JavaScript logs.
• having a good knowledge of LESS, SASS/SCSS, Stylus etc, so you can produce coherent and powerful code quicker.
• PHP : understanding the very basic functions and how html templates can be called there.
• Twig : understanding how templating works through Twig.
• UI Tools : basic knowledge of how to edit, comment and share existing interfaces. Mainly in adobe xd,Invision, Figma, Sketch and Zepelin.
• Versioning Tools : initializing, creating and resolving conflict in repos using Git, GitBash, Tortoise or GitKraken and the command lines.
• Work Environment Tools : understanding how such tools, like Docker and Npm work, and a basic knowledge of their command lines.
• W3C : aware of what a good practice is and what is not regarding HTML & CSS for a better rating of websites and web-apps.

Language Skills: 

English and Arabic – Good Written and Spoken.