Segun Adebayo is the UX Engineer that built the Chakra UI design system

Segun Adebayo was turned off of web development after struggling with Wordpress' themes and plugins, and so he went straight into UI design entirely using Sketch and Figma for quite some time. It was React that brought him back into the development fold. The way React made it so easy to create components stuck with him. Segun is still a designer at heart, but his skillset goes beyond design. If he calls himself a designer, it limits what people want from him. By calling himself, a UX Engineer Segun can create higher expectations of his skills, and people come to him for a broader range of problems. One of the key reasons Segun started his side-project, Chakra UI, was to learn. One of his fundamental values is learning in public. Chakra UI is a passion project for Segun. It breaks his heart that most applications aren't accessible. Accessibility is one of the three core principles of Chakra UI along with composition, and being easy to style. Accessibility was one of the other key reasons for Segun starting Chakra UI. He wanted to create a design system that would make it easier for other developers to make the web accessible. Transcript "Why Segun Adebayo Calls Himself A UX Engineer Instead Of A Designer" Transcript Resources React Training Design For Developers Refactoring UI Chakra UI Segun Adebayo Twitter Joel Hooks Twitter Website

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Segun Adebayo is the UX Engineer that built the Chakra UI design system is an episode from egghead.io developer chats by Joel Hooks.

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