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Hello World, Hello 2025!

Hello World, Hello 2025!

The first ever FEDSA Feed is here.

FEDSA team
January 31, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Welcome to the first FEDSA Feed.

We aim to highlight some important events in the world of user interfaces (from UX to front-end development) that happen each month.

Much like you dear reader, we are frustrated by the sheer amount of noise and click-bait out there, so we promise that the below is AI-free, written and compiled by real humans, for other humans - as concisely as possible.

Here are three useful things from January:

The UX hiring market is still a relentless dumpster fire. Jared Spool released a super comprehensive investigation into Why the UX Job Market is Such a Mess Right Now, which also includes some solid recommendations to help you navigate "this new post-inversion UX job market [that] requires different job-seeking skills and practices than what worked before the inversion". Also check out Schalk Venter's Feedback for Juniors and a fairly recent SyntaxFM episode: Are Companies Hiring?
Since mid-2024 the world of HTML and CSS has been on the receiving end of a litany of paradigm-changing updates. Even seniors are struggling to keep up with everything coming down the pipeline. Chris Coyier compiled a phenomenal Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025. However, even if you don't touch HTML and CSS you will feel the downstream effects in design-land. The Smashing Magazine newsletter just published New Front-End Features For Designers in 2025
Our good friend Schalk Neethling penned the 6th entry in 12 Days of Web at the end of last year, covering Web Components using the Declarative Shadow DOM API. Perhaps to counter all the Web Component drama in 2024, this year started on a bit more of a humorous note, with full-on mad scientist Dave Rupert's attempts to Make "this" Less Annoying - with some over-the-top ideas, and Cory LaViska (from Shoelace fame), asking "When building a component library, what component do you build first and why is it always button?" on BlueSky

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Building a Freelance Career with Bulumko (Bullz) Papu, Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Freelancing isn’t just about being good at what you do—it’s about making sure the right people know about it. This session will explore how freelancers can put themselves o

www.meetup.com/fedsa-community/events/305879958

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EVENT REPLAYS:

In case you missed January’s events, you can watch the replays here:

Managing Figma: Building a Robust Design System Infrastructure

Ask Me Anything with Justin Slack & Schalk Venter

Understanding Complexity with Maxi Ferreira

CSS Anchor Positioning from CSS Breakpoint

JOB OPPORTUNITIES:

Code Maven are looking to hire 4 different front-end developers.
MRI have a Graduate Software Engineer role open.
Softserve are hiring across the board; graduate developer & designer, front-end devs as well as UI/UX designers
Entelect have Javascript Lead positions advertised.
BBD has open applications for their Graduate Programme.
Kitrum are hiring a Snr Front-end Engineer (React, Next).
Supercritical are looking for a Lead Product Designer (remote).
Mobbin is hiring a Snr Product Designer.

^{If you’d like to share your open roles here,}^{reach out here}^{for more information.}

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