The document introduces Maaike Beenen, a founder of Pink Moose Design and an organizer for UX Finland, highlighting her professional journey and roles. It emphasizes the importance of coding skills in design, noting that it fosters creativity, problem-solving, and enhances understanding of design possibilities. The document advocates for designers to acquire basic coding knowledge, with recommendations for tools and a positive outlook on the learning process.

1. Coding is Cool
Maaike Beenen

2. Maaike
• Founder of Pink Moose design
Graphic design & UX design
www.pinkmoose.fi
• Founder of UX Finland
Organizing World Usability Day 13.11.2014
www.uxfinland.com
• Marketing Manager at Mypose
www.mypose.fi
• Most important job though: Mum of two lovely kids

4. 80’s The story begins…

5. 90’s/early 2000

6. Nowadays

7. EXAMPLES OF WORK

11. Coding is cool because?
• You can influence the design
• It’s fun to figure out how to do something new
and make it work! Problem solving skills!
• It’s acceptable to listen to music with
headphones on and drink lots of coffee
• Necessary skills nowadays in design, you
should at least understand basics and
possibilities of coding

12. Survival skills needed
as a designer
• Ruby on rails / textedit / Dreamweaver etc.
- any coding program
• Html(5)/CSS(3) knowledge and anything on
top of that is a plus
• Some ‘Sisu’, enthusiasm and Google search

13. Thanks and have fun coding!
Maaike Beenen
www.pinkmoose.fi
maaike@pinkmoose.fi
050 599 3116