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Westley KnightUX for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4227-8_6

6. Focusing on the User

Westley Knight1 
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Northampton, UK
 

Throughout my years as a front-end developer, my thoughts while building out websites and applications for the web revolved around delivering a consistent and functional interface. More specifically, it was about how I would create that consistency in one of, if not, the most inhospitable environments in the digital world: the web browser.

The pace at which technologies evolve when it comes to creating things on the web is truly astonishing, and this only adds more pressure on developers to keep up with new frameworks, techniques, and ways of working. But is this really where the value in the ...

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