Rails Girls seminar/workshop was organized in Autumn 2014 and this is the material of the presentation I gave there, telling about my story of coding & design and giving tips why knowing how to code is important, also as a designer.

1. Coding is Cool
Maaike Beenen

2. Maaike
• Founder of Pink Moose design
Graphic design & UX design
www.pinkmoose.fi
• Founder of UX Finland
Organizing World Usability Day 13.11.2014
www.uxfinland.com
• Marketing Manager at Mypose
www.mypose.fi
• Most important job though: Mum of two lovely kids

4. 80’s The story begins…

5. 90’s/early 2000

6. Nowadays

7. EXAMPLES OF WORK

11. Coding is cool because?
• You can influence the design
• It’s fun to figure out how to do something new
and make it work! Problem solving skills!
• It’s acceptable to listen to music with
headphones on and drink lots of coffee
• Necessary skills nowadays in design, you
should at least understand basics and
possibilities of coding

12. Survival skills needed
as a designer
• Ruby on rails / textedit / Dreamweaver etc.
- any coding program
• Html(5)/CSS(3) knowledge and anything on
top of that is a plus
• Some ‘Sisu’, enthusiasm and Google search

13. Thanks and have fun coding!
Maaike Beenen
www.pinkmoose.fi
maaike@pinkmoose.fi
050 599 3116