Finding art in web development
Today it all suddenly connected in my mind, how beautiful can be the work of a web developer. In the most humanistic way.
There is a little thing inside me that always liked to be in museums and check every single piece. It’s like storing all the representations of beauty that there can be.
I started in Frontend almost by accident and only following the expectation that I gave to myself every time something worked. The awe to the infinite possibilities that my engineer mind was already making combinations of. I kind of crushed with CSS.
After less than a decade in the business, the heaviness of profits and quality code bore a heavyweight in my brain. And I was revolving trying to go to the next layer of web development, user experience. So it could mean no more programming, no more tickets, and requirements, user experience should be the escape.
I guess it was only after finishing that course on UX that I started connecting things…
I’m not an artist but Art drives me. Beauty, synchrony, harmony, the elegant feeling that art leaves in one’s soul. Which I think is beyond what a human can find practical or not. It’s on a personal level, in a different way for everyone probably. What I mean is, looking at a magnificent cascade or at crispy fire is not practical but it’s … (fill in, cause you know what I mean).
As a Web developer (or what I rather like saying UX developer), I found myself in a position of only connecting programming languages so the product is ready. Also taking care of how instead of the purpose. Fulfilling stakeholder's desires was never my ambition. But UX really helped me to realize why. Because what we build is basically not for us developers, neither for them stakeholders, it’s for those who are seeing the webs every day.
Even though the goal is just to buy a phone, or you want to participate in a promotion, it’s still an opportunity to experience the process in another level. The web may be a tool, but the same are all the objects in our life. I guess it’s like either going to a lost road Motel or a Design Hotel in Milan. And we all keep the good wine glasses for visitors.
So I’m now convinced that Art can be created from every corporate job. At least I want to be that Artist who I think I cannot be in a job like mine.
