Kathryn Grayson Nanz
UI Designer & Front-end Developer
About
In 2013, I graduated with a BFA and took my first job as a Junior Graphic Designer at a small, boutique ad agency. While there, my Creative Director warned me to never let anyone find out I could code, because if I did I'd be stuck doing it forever. I ignored his warning; it turns out he was completely right, but I've never been happier.
I currently work as a developer advocate on a wonderful team where I help people build web applications in React, design and maintain their UI component libraries, and desperately attempt to stop back-end devs from writing any more CSS.
Sessions at dev up 2023
Getting Started with Accessibility in React
Many of us have heard the accessibility basics: use semantic HTML, include alt text, test with a screen reader, etc. However, when we're dealing with React – and JSX specifically – there are a few ...
Usability Testing Without a UX Specialist
Ask nearly anyone about the process of developing software, and somewhere in the answer they’ll (hopefully) mention the users. User research, user testing, user feedback – the end user is at the he...