Front end End need UX?
Do you have to be good at UX/graphic design to be a great Front end Engineer?
Yes in startup , No in big org
UX is not the same as UI. UX is not only graphics, it includes the whole experience the user will go through in using that piece of software. Look and feel, message appearance and wording, flow steps, fit and finish are all part of user experience. Understanding who is your user and writing the software for them and not for you (as the user) is also part of those skills. Knowing that an error message should be more like "We are having trouble accessing your file. Please try this or that" instead of "Error 0x02" or "File error" is part of the patterns you must know.
Dope thanks
Follow up question . Do you know any good resources to learn those?
In most circumstances youāll work in tandem with UX. But definitely good to know (vice versa for a UX Designer).
Read up on Medium - lots of helpful and interesting stuff there.
You don't have to, but you'll be respected a ton more and be able to work better if you have some knowledge of UX. It's because the alternative is just doing what the designer tell you to do
UX yeah, graphic design no
Wait I thought UX part of graphic design
Think of google or indeed as good ux but 0 graphic design. As a good front end engineer you should have opinions/insights about why certain patterns are good / bad for user interaction, but you donāt have to be good at like the adobe suite