👋🏼 Hi,
I am David
I like photography and I hate the outdated and ugly websites, and I do still hate them today.
👉🏼 About me
I am a young, creative based in Veszprem, Hungary who loves technology and design. I have got a degree in IT Engineering and have a Web Developer certificate. I had the chance to design an industry-leading security software interface and I am doing it for over 4 years.
With these experiences, I am in confident two roles:
- As a Product Designer
- As a Front-End Engineer
How?
🗺 My journey
Since these ugly and horrible websites were a perfect example of how to not design and deploy a website, my career got a clear direction towards web development with a front-end focus. I have started creating home- and university projects but compared to my peers, I have asked the question:
why do my classmate's work does not make sense?
I've always started my projects from the visual side, while my mates were more focued on the code itself. This difference turned me more into product design, seeking the whys, and looking for solutions to answer these questions while keeping it close to the code - because if a great idea cannot be built, it remains just as dream.
I like photography, especially nature and landscape photos and probably that's why I am looking for the beauty in the things I use. However, beauty is nothing if it does not have any function, aesthetic products do not save the world - and our world needs saving. I am looking into the whys for everything I use, and I love simplicity: getting the thing done easily and fast. With this attitude, I helped my classmates to make their ideas understandable for their users.
Later it turned out it is called Human-centered design.
👨🏼💻 A coder who designs
I have started my career as a front-end engineer at a startup called Balabit. Here I learned how to build and maintain secure web applications, how to fit into an Agile workflow, do sprint plannings, and how to live a general developer life. I learned a lot, participated in global hackathons, won a few of them where I could design our "product". I have maintained a large Angular application, with all the required hassle.
how > why
In most engineering driven organisation this is a common approach. This helped me realise that's is real cause of modern day's frustration: an engineer is super happy with an elegant solution in a healty codebase with a good test coverage. However, at the end of the day, when users are trying to navigate their lifes, they only see things that does not make sense for them.
👨🏼🎨 A designer who codes
I have realized that most of my developer friends are just focusing on the problem they have to solve and they solved the problem from their point of view. That resulted in completely ignoring the end-users of their application and I have realized that's why most of the websites suck: Have you asked a question "why[..]?" while filling a form online, ordering something, or just wanted to do something on the internet?
why > how
Answering the whys, whats of a problem requires more research and empathy - but these answers have bigger impact: they help solving the problem why we building our software. That's why I have started questioning our workflows, putting our users experience at the first priority.