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 2024
How to Ruin a User Interface: Surprisingly Easy Ways to Screw Over Your Users
Sure, when your boss signed the expense form for you to attend this conference, they thought you’d be bringing back new ideas about BETTER ways to do stuff – but honestly, isn’t that a little borin...
Learn Enough UX to be Dangerous
Sure, you can build a technically impressive application, one that’s beautiful, performant, and cutting-edge…but do your users actually enjoy using it? As developers, we often see the User Experien...