Patrick Lopes

I've tried learning React a few times. Always hit the same wall.

The tutorials made sense while I was watching them but then I'd close the video and have no idea where to start on my own.

Scrimba is different because the lesson is the code editor. You're not watching someone build...

Every product page decision has a job to do before someone ever reaches checkout. On the SeneGence PDP, the job was simple to state and hard to execute: help someone choose a shade with confidence.

That meant building the color swatch grid as the primary interaction, not a...

Got approved as a mentor on ADPList this week. I spent a pretty large portion early in my career without any real direction. Had a pretty vague job title (visual designer). UI and UX weren't even established concepts yet, so there wasn't a clear path to follow even if I'd known...

I've been sending a lot of outreach messages lately as part of my job search, and pretty quickly ran into the same wall every time.

Writing a good, personalized message was never the problem. The problem was everything before it: finding the right contact, pulling context on the...