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Harper Atlas on Tailwind From the Perspective of a Designer

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English - November 17, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 91.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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We are excited to have SmartLogic's own Harper Atlas as our guest on Elixir Wizards today! Harper, a product designer at SmartLogic (and cat lady at home), joins us on this episode to parse the particulars of the Tailwind framework from a designer's perspective. Join us to gain insights from our first non-engineer guest in this spirited conversation with Harper!
Key Points From This Episode:
We learn about Harper’s journey into the UX field
Harper breaks down her day-to-day life as a product designer at SmartLogic
What the difference between FigMa and FigJam is
The good & bad sides of Tailwind
What goes into developer handoff and how that varies depending on the company and team
The importance of finding common language and bridging the gap between developer island and design island within a developer handoff
The features that Harper doesn’t like about Tailwind
How Tailwind has started to feel like the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Harper gives developers some advice on how to be more helpful to designers while working in a Tailwind space
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Harper Atlas on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/harper-atlas
Harper Atlas on Twitter — https://twitter.com/harperatlas
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic

We are excited to have SmartLogic's own Harper Atlas as our guest on Elixir Wizards today! Harper, a product designer at SmartLogic (and cat lady at home), joins us on this episode to parse the particulars of the Tailwind framework from a designer's perspective. Join us to gain insights from our first non-engineer guest in this spirited conversation with Harper!

Key Points From This Episode:

We learn about Harper’s journey into the UX field
Harper breaks down her day-to-day life as a product designer at SmartLogic
What the difference between FigMa and FigJam is
The good & bad sides of Tailwind
What goes into developer handoff and how that varies depending on the company and team
The importance of finding common language and bridging the gap between developer island and design island within a developer handoff
The features that Harper doesn’t like about Tailwind
How Tailwind has started to feel like the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Harper gives developers some advice on how to be more helpful to designers while working in a Tailwind space

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Harper Atlas on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/harper-atlas

Harper Atlas on Twitter — https://twitter.com/harperatlas

SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/

SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic

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