Front End Design for the Back-End developer
You see it virtually everywhere these days “The ideal candidate will also have UI Experience” or “Seeking a full-stack developer.”
Although any developer can throw some fields on a form, the results are often atrocious! If you consider yourself an “engineer” and not a “pixel pusher” or if you tried building a UI a few years ago and HATED it this is the session for you.
We will be live coding an entire UI from scratch using modern tools, frameworks and techniques to show how building a UI can be effortless (and even fun!)
Although the focus will be on WEB UIs the approach and philosophy will be the same whether you're creating a mobile UI or a desktop application.
About Michael Carducci
Michael Carducci spent years learning to see things as they actually are; first as a magician, then as a software architect, now as both simultaneously. And somehow that’s not even the whole story.
He’s the author of Mastering Software Architecture (Apress, 2025) and is currently writing The Semantic Layer. He has spent over 25 years following interesting problems; through roles from individual contributor to CTO and back again, across industries and continents.
As a speaker, he applies the same toolkit he uses in close-up magic: attention, misdirection, timing, storytelling, and the instinct to take the long way around when that’s where the truth lives. Audiences at hundreds of conferences across four continents have described his talks as the kind that change how you think about a problem rather than just what you know about it.
He also makes YouTube videos about technology and curiosity with his wife Kate, because some ideas are too important (or too interesting!) to leave only in conference rooms.
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