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Communication, understanding, and right message are very important from the beginning. What I learned: have a strong and clear objective. Deliver it to right people. Preface: I applied for UX Designer position in a large company. Then was given a call from HR, and during the conversation I mentioned that, yes, I can write the code on JavaScript. Follow up was the scheduling of a phone interview. Phone ring… I was asked to open a link with some code editor window in browser. And the first question on the interview, which apparently appeared to be a strictly technical and coding interview, was: - Are you familiar with JavaScript? Ok, write the code to implement event handling in JavaScript as if no implementation of event handling existed in JavaScript . - Uh, what? What exactly in your mind? - I want these two functions: function addEvent(element, eventType, callback) function fireEvent(eventType) - Ok, we can create our own object and make these two functions be a public ...

Here is my objective of what I do designing things, what makes me creative, productive, and helps to deliver an awesome result: I am seeing myself as a pixel perfectionist with developer/technical background, and with the ability to understand the intersections of disciplines from multiple perspectives bringing the big picture to the table I approach design with a simple, fun, and intuitive mindset. I enjoy conceptualizing and designing clean interfaces. I love simple, usable interfaces and appreciate the hard work that goes behind creating them. I love to see my work come to life in front of a large audience. I subscribe to the Less Is More (minimalistic) design philosophy. I solve complex problems and drive company’s products experience forward. I design simple experiences that delight users. I am taking business requirements and translating them into customer experience requirements. I visualize them. My goal is true innovation to help end users with sincere empathy....

This is a typical example of the UI engineering requirements. They are great. Typical for 2012 in its manifestation. It's a classic. About You Your proven track record of building amazing things speaks for itself.  You are passionate about creating extraordinary web experiences by writing beautiful code . You have extensive experience with JavaScript, DOM Scripting, CSS and semantic HTML and have strong debugging abilities across all major browsers .  You've worked efficiently in large JavaScript codebases and know how to keep the code modular and loosely coupled .  You are comfortable thinking full stack and moving around the codebase as necessary to get the job done, including interfacing with RESTful APIs and implementing supporting mid-tier code in Java . The Role The clean, intuitive, and beautiful user interface you will build will play a critical role our user experience -- allowing users to navigate through data and visually manipulate mass...