WordCamp Asheville 2015

1. Empathetic Development
Kyle Evans
@scubakyle

4. Empathy
The ability to understand and share the
feelings of another

5. Our development decisions
affect other people

6. Empathize with Users

7. People use different devices
and browsers than you

8. BrowserStack
https://www.browserstack.com/

9. People have slower
internet than you

14. Google Page Speed
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

15. People have different
accessibility needs than you

16. Make WP Accessible
https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/useful-tools/

17. People speak different
languages than you

18. WP Internationalization Test
https://developer.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/wordpress-
developers-test-your-i18n-internationalization-knowledge/

19. Empathize with Your Clients

20. Developers are often
UI/UX Designers

21. What is best for the client?
What is easiest for me?
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22. Where would the client expect
to update things?

23. What is best for the client?
How would I want this?
/

24. User Onboarding
http://www.useronboard.com/

25. ID fields are terrible
ID fields are easy
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26. Empathize with
Future Developers

27. Pity Future Developers

28. You may be the future developer of
whatever project you're working on

29. You are the past developer of
whatever project you're working on

30. Coding Standards
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards

31. Comment your code

32. Empathize Through Diversity

33. Empathetic Development
Kyle Evans
@scubakyle