Dr Marten’s
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Designer | Lead front end developer
I really enjoyed this role as I joined from the start of Discovery Phase 1 all the way to Production, and beyond. As well as writing the code, I created the base designs to work from for the client.
Being my first delve into the Hybris world, I had to learn extremely quickly. Hybris documentation being notoriously scarce, I had to learn the hard way. This proved extremely challenging, but very rewarding.
Create new designs based on wireframes & Create semantic code based on those designs within Hybris & bug fixing
Dr Martens were creating their new site within Hybris. It was my task to make flat designs (based on the provided wireframes). Then after client approval I'd convert this to clean, semantic code within Hybris. This was a kind of hybrid role: designer/ front end developer, as there were no designers on our team.
As I was the sole front end developer on this project I was responsible for all bug fixing and content changes from discovery phase 1 to production. One of my regular tasks was to liaise with the Dr Martens management team, our project manager, QA team, BA team and backend Hybris developers.
Challenges
Balancing designing vs front end development. The client was very supportive of the designs, but there were still numerous updates and bugs which meant plenty of code changes.
Proudest of
The whole project was one of my favourites as I was hands-on throughout the process, from creating the designs to go-live code.
