Harper Atlas on Tailwind From the Perspective of a Designer

We are excited to have SmartLogic's own Harper Atlas as our guest on Elixir Wizards today! Harper, a product designer at SmartLogic (and cat lady at home), joins us on this episode to parse the particulars of the Tailwind framework from a designer's perspective. Join us to gain insights from our first non-engineer guest in this spirited conversation with Harper! Key Points From This Episode: We learn about Harper’s journey into the UX field Harper breaks down her day-to-day life as a product designer at SmartLogic What the difference between FigMa and FigJam is The good & bad sides of Tailwind What goes into developer handoff and how that varies depending on the company and team The importance of finding common language and bridging the gap between developer island and design island within a developer handoff The features that Harper doesn’t like about Tailwind How Tailwind has started to feel like the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon Harper gives developers some advice on how to be more helpful to designers while working in a Tailwind space Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Harper Atlas on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/harper-atlas Harper Atlas on Twitter — https://twitter.com/harperatlas SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic

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Elixir Wizards is an interview-style podcast for anyone interested in functional programming and the Elixir Programming Language. Hosted by SmartLogic engineers and Elixirists Owen Bickford, Dan Ivovich, and Sundi Myint, this show features in-depth discussions with some of the brightest minds in the industry, discussing training and documentation in Phoenix LiveView, the evolution of programming languages, Erlang VM, and more. In the current season, we're branching out from Elixir to compare notes with thought leaders and software engineers from programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Go, Scala, Java, and more. Each episode will take a deep dive into a topic from Machine Learning and AI, to ECS and game development, to education and community. Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smartlogic.io/phoenix-and-elixir?utm_source=podcast)