About
Kat is a developer with a background in commerce.
Before her career in web development, Kat worked in business support roles for nearly a decade. This background allows her to create strategic web experiences that bridge the gap between users' and product owners' needs. She is passionate about accessibility and intentional design, and has been described as “forward-thinking” in retrospectives, as she brings the context of the whole project to each task she completes.
Recently, Kat has been learning about
- how engineering teams operate with Collab Lab
- building full-stack applications with Juno College
- building Shopify sites and incorporating more design-oriented JavaScript with SuperHi
- design fundamentals from Don Norman's book The Design of Everyday Things
Work
I'm Frond of You
Heavily influenced by Reader's Digest Success with House Plants (1979), this jQuery app guides users through questions to help them find their soil mate.
codeGitHub
time
Inspired by Aphex Twin's Peel Session 2, this jQuery app is an alarm for users that spend their breaks at their desk. It acts as an exploration of time through Date and intervals, and plays a tune to alert the user when their break concludes.
codeGitHub
Skills
Contact
You can reach Kat at hello at katm dot dev.