Name: UX Meetup: Using code as a design tool
Start: 2025-04-03T17:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-04-03T19:00:00+13:00
Location: 100 Carlyle Street

Join us to discover how using code as a design tool can bring designers and developers closer together, leading to a more seamless and collaborative workflow 🤝

**About the Talk**
Using code as a design tool allows designers to empathise with developers, gaining valuable insights into how software is built. By bridging the gap between user needs and development through code, designers can foster greater empathy and collaboration throughout the design process.

This approach helps eliminate misunderstandings and removes the traditional “code handoff” in favour of a more integrated workflow. By leveraging design system components directly, designers and developers can work together more effectively to build new solutions. Understanding how code works enhances collaboration and streamlines the design-to-development process.

In this talk, you’ll get an introduction to using code as a design tool—no coding experience required! We'll explore practical examples of coded mockups using CodePen ([codepen.io](https://codepen.io/)) to demonstrate how this approach can improve your design practice.

**About the speaker**
[Nathaniel Flick](https://nathanielflick.com) has been a designer and web developer for 17 years. He is currently a Senior User Experience Designer at Streamliners, a clinician education and community platform.

**Agenda:**
**5:00pm** • Doors open, networking + refreshments
**5:30pm** • Presentation starts
**6:30pm** • More networking
**7:00pm** • Event close
Drinks are kindly sponsored by [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/) and [Canterbury Tech](https://canterburytech.nz/)

Also, a big thank you to [MadeCurious](https://madecurious.com/) for providing the event space for us to meet - if you’re interested in what they do, check out their [LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/madecurious/).

**MadeCurious HQ information:**

* We have x2 mobility car parks available and wheelchair access into the building
* If you have any accessibility needs please let us know so we can make sure to cater for them
* Limited car parking will be available onsite (MadeCurious. labelled signs) and ample street parking close by the office

*We have a limited capacity, so please only RSVP if you can definitely make it.*

Marjolein Visser

Andrew Pitts

UX CHCH • User Experience Christchurch

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