Francesco (XPUB1 student)

Your name?
- Francesco. from Italy

I've heard that you worked as a front-end developer before in Italy.
Could you please describe what were your tasks in specific?
- I worked in a small studio, not having very organised positions. My tasks encompass from designing a website (mostly UI/UX) to developing it.

When did you work there?
- I worked there from Nov 2021.

What are tools you were working on design and development?
- For the design, I worked with Figma. It's not like encouragement from my work but rather my choice, because it was easy to share projects with your colleagues, and so on.
As for the development I used VisualStudioCode as a text editor, and I've installed some extensions inside to make my programming easier.
Then I used to refer myself to frameworks such as Nuxt, Vue.js, Swiper when needed.
I didn't use Bootstrap or React. Those frameworks mentioned were enough.

How did you experience these frameworks?
- I learned Javascript quite fundamentally, starting from the Vanilla Javascript. So I would say I'm not that naive to understand javascript libraries but for me it still took some time to understand the logic of Vue.js.

Have you ever felt that your ability (such as creativity) in the web design and development was limited in a way when you use such frameworks?Any criticisms on it?
- Honestly not really. I think it's also because the studio I worked at was not a big company but rather a small context.
Meaning, I had some freedom to be involved in both designing and developing without having particular pressures.
And also the use of such frameworks usually had very specific and practical reasons. For instance, I had to make some gallery-like interface upon a client's demand. For that it was good to take a look at well-made frameworks, rather than to develop it from 0 to 100.
Also it was very efficient when I had to make many pages of a website, having a repetitive similar function.

difficulty in design>
- When I worked on a big project commissioned by a public organisation, most of contents and rules in displaying were given by the organisation.
And those were mostly made from academic research by the researchers. Their contents were in a way not practical.
And I was a bit frustrated to translate the given contents to the web as a visual element because from most designers' perspectives, the contents were not really relevant to put on the web context.

How did you experience the mobile-first approach, which is quite pervasive in the web design industry, when you worked with the commissioned projects?
- It actually depends on your clients. The studio had quite a big scale project, commissioned by a public organisation.
But when I worked for a project came from a very commercial company