Hello!
Hi DEV community! My name is Jo. I am a Digital Designer and Learning Technologist at the University of Leeds with a specialism in UX design and web accessibility. My coding journey started over lockdown when I completed a coding bootcamp with The Coders Guild, learning HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript, bootstrap, and Git. I will be honest, I don't need to use it every day for my career so I did forget some of what I've learnt since then but I have started to pick it back up again! My background is in graphic design so I hope to utilise my knowledge in this field to create more visually stunning web experiences. Currently with the support of my colleague, I help create bespoke web development projects that supplement the learning within our online course portfolio. For me personally, these projects are very basic (and partly supported by ChatGPT) because I am still learning... but I hope to change that! My goal is get to the point where I am much better and more confident in my skills at front-end web development and require less hand-holding. I also want to create diverse interactive experiences to hopefully foster genuine curiosity for the subject matter with our students and engage them with the learning material. Managers are more interested in boosting the reputation of the university, but the most important thing for me is to promote academia and make learning fun! Most of my posts will be misc stuff I've learnt and will probably be written with bad or inefficient code rather than being effective tutorials so please read with caution! Thank you for coming on this coding journey with me! If you'd like to connect, my LinkedIn profile is linked before (I no longer use any other social media platform anymore for my professional presence). I am in the process of coding my own website so be sure to keep a look out for this in due time! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolaw233/
Hi DEV community!
My name is Jo. I am a Digital Designer and Learning Technologist at the University of Leeds with a specialism in UX design and web accessibility.
My coding journey started over lockdown when I completed a coding bootcamp with The Coders Guild, learning HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript, bootstrap, and Git. I will be honest, I don't need to use it every day for my career so I did forget some of what I've learnt since then but I have started to pick it back up again! My background is in graphic design so I hope to utilise my knowledge in this field to create more visually stunning web experiences.
Currently with the support of my colleague, I help create bespoke web development projects that supplement the learning within our online course portfolio. For me personally, these projects are very basic (and partly supported by ChatGPT) because I am still learning... but I hope to change that!
My goal is get to the point where I am much better and more confident in my skills at front-end web development and require less hand-holding. I also want to create diverse interactive experiences to hopefully foster genuine curiosity for the subject matter with our students and engage them with the learning material. Managers are more interested in boosting the reputation of the university, but the most important thing for me is to promote academia and make learning fun!
Most of my posts will be misc stuff I've learnt and will probably be written with bad or inefficient code rather than being effective tutorials so please read with caution!
Thank you for coming on this coding journey with me! If you'd like to connect, my LinkedIn profile is linked before (I no longer use any other social media platform anymore for my professional presence). I am in the process of coding my own website so be sure to keep a look out for this in due time!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolaw233/
