Wilvin Jimenez

Experienced Frontend Developer and UI/UX Designer.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

AI might not take your job

But folks who use it will get promoted ahead of you, beat you at interviews, outperform you and eventually manage you

And once everyone is using AI and you're not, that's when your job will be in danger

[Ran Segall @ransegall]

DISCLAIMER: For the would-be web designer

Warning: The following contains actual truths about web design. Reader discretion is advised.

So, you think you want to be a web designer? You’ve watched some YouTube videos, scrolled through Instagram mockups, and now you’re ready to dive in because it looks fun, creative, and—let’s be honest—better than whatever your current job is. Cute.

But before you take another step, let’s set the record straight:

・You will hate your first 100 designs. Maybe 200. Your taste will improve faster than your skills, which means a long and painful period of knowing your work is bad but not being able to fix it. Enjoy.

・You will not magically “find your style.” You’ll copy, remix, and steal (ethically, of course) until something eventually starts to feel like yours. There is no divine moment where you suddenly become a designer.

・Web design is 90% problem-solving and 10% moving things two pixels to the left (and then back again). If you don’t like thinking through problems, learning new tools, or dealing with clients who “just want it to pop,” stop now.

・Figma, Webflow & Framer are not magic wands. Yes, they’re great tools, but no, they will not compensate for a lack of fundamental design knowledge. (But they will let you pretend for a little while—so at least you’ll have fun before the crushing reality sets in.)

・You are not going to be the next Brett from DesignJoy. Sorry. Subscription-based solo agencies sound cool, but most designers aren’t pulling in $1M+ a year on autopilot while sipping coconut water in Bali. You’ll probably have to take normal projects from normal clients, and yes, that means writing proposals and managing expectations like a regular person.

・Getting clients is harder than making a website. You’ll spend more time figuring out how to sell your skills than actually designing. Clients will not just magically find you. You will need to learn how to market yourself, unless you enjoy the “starving artist” aesthetic.

・You will be asked to make the logo bigger. Every. Single. Time. And sometimes, you will just have to do it.

Still here? Good. That means you might actually have what it takes.

Web design is frustrating, challenging, and occasionally soul-crushing… but it’s also one of the most rewarding, creative, and financially freeing careers you can pursue. And if you stick with it, you might just wake up one day and realize—you’re actually good at this.

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@BrettFromDJ https://t.co/IRHVff72Od

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@DannPetty https://t.co/IRHVff7ADL

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@DannPetty Hey!
https://t.co/QTKe8ECYpr

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@DannPetty Great,
https://t.co/QTKe8ECYpr

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@bagus_fikri @FikriStudio This blew my mind. Fantastic.

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@dariusdan Looking good!

[Brian Lovin @brian_lovin]

I can not stress enough how tough it is to build a web app that works well across browsers, mobile devices, and input methods while staying accessible and performant.

Hug your frontend developer.

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@alexgilev @DannPetty 👏🏼

[Ankur💻🎧💪 @TheAnkurTyagi]

Software Engineer life every week😊

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@castillo__io @neurosity Congratulations Alex. Well deserved!

[MDS @mds]

Make your design life 10X easier and use these 5 color contrast score ranges for specific UI elements.

👇Here's the breakdown...

(I started writing this after the recent @usecontrast launch)

[Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @vitalyf]

Usually we don’t need to display the entire table on mobile. A neat way to transform a complex table to mobile is by allowing users to explore multiple rows and multiple columns separately. #ux

https://t.co/gOOtkdq2Xj via @joemoewin

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@Ridderingand Hey Ridd, as always good stuff. One question that comes to me is how do you design big pages with this clipping behavior? I mean, don't you think that it would be hard to work with designs that are 3k pixels long? Big forms and things like that.

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@joeyabanks Beautiful!

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@josef_fares Congratulations! Well deserved!

[Wilvin Jimenez @wilvinjimenez]

@DannPetty Congratulations Dann!

[Minko Gechev @mgechev]

✨ Common destructuring patterns for more expressive code:

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The more you try, the more you fail.
The more you fail, the more you learn.
The more you learn, the better you get.

As usual, it all starts with trying.