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Elsa Carlström

Frontend
Developer

+ Graphic Designer

Hello! I’m a graphic designer who decided to go digital by diving into the world of web development. I studied design and visual communication but I’ve always had a technical side as well and taking the step into programming lets me truly combine them. What I most of all bring from my +10 years as a designer into frontend development I would say is great attention to detail, in aesthetics and code alike.

Tech

HTML, CSS, Flexbox, JavaScript ES6, JSX, React, React Hooks, Redux, JSON, Node.js, Mongo DB, Web Accessibly, API:s, mob-programming, pair-programming, Github.

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Shoes in the middle of the street
November 2021
12 down, 12 to go — reporting halfway through the Technigo Bootcamp

At the end of every 4-week sprint so far I’ve managed to take a step back and briefly admire the great progress and dedication I’ve seen in my class, my team and in myself, before diving head first into the next one. After the first we could suddenly build great-looking one-pagers without any previous experience of HTML and CSS. After the second JavaScript wasn’t an abstract language any more and we could build rich applications using JSON API:s. At the end of this sprint we are suddenly quite comfortable working with state and components in React with JSX... Continue reading >>

A desktop with a keyboard and a knitted beanie
December 2021
Destructuring Objects — a beginners guide

It can be quite a cumbersome project to extract the data inside JavaScript objects but for new developers I have a quick tip that I would like to share. Below I’ll cover the destructuring of objects and the rest operator which can make the handling of objects a much smoother ride. Both of these features were added to JavaScript in ES6 and were not available in versions previous to that. Continue reading >>

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Oktober 2022
This was a lucky recollection--it saved her from something very like regret.

On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley. >>

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SKILLS

Code

JavaScript ES6
React
React Native
Redux
HTML5
CSS3
JSON:API
Unit testing


Upcoming

Node.js
MongoDB

Toolbox

VS Code
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Photoshop
CodePen
CodeSandbox
GitHub
Postman
Figma
Slack
Trello

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Graphic Design
Visual Communication
Web Design
Responsive Design
Web Accessability
Pair-programming
Mob-programming

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