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I'm thatDania, logically and literally. I'm the Dania, out of many Dania's who ventured out of Malaysia to discover her passions for design and technology. I'm also known as "thatdania" who is an ongoing Web Developer, Animator, Designer, Hackernoon Blogger and GIF Scientist.
My endearing drive and energetic behaviour fuels my nature of an explorer. Whether it is diving deep to learn new technologies, leading 150 students of the infamous Central Saint Martin's Degree Show or indulging others, including myself that GIFS are the trending future of graphic design, this mindset is my secret to these enriching accomplishments as given any explorer needs the following qualities. To be constantly curious, unafraid of venturing into the unknown and most importantly, to be proactive with discovering what I'm passionate about (code and design).
As I am growing to be a Web Developer, I wish to be amongst a community who values good craftmanship in code, well designed applications that are focused on enhancing the user's engagement and supported learning.Ideally, I would like to be in a flourishing enviroment where everyone is an explorer.
Visionary
In progress of curating the CSM’s Degree Show, I had this strong vision of breaking the convention that all four pathways in Graphic Design should be equally contribute and be displayed in the show. This bravely made me take on the curation role, a role I hadn't done by gathering 20 students from all pathways in my tiny dorm room. I lead the team to strategise how the show should be curated and how majority of the community could participate to help effectively with the show.
Self-Starter
Whilst building my final week project at Makers Acadmey, I volunteered to do additional documentation for our project along with designing the product. This included writing blogs about our process, about how the code works, ideating the design theme, doing mock-ups of the layout and designing all the icons. I played a large role for the interface and documentation for our project, MemoMap. You can explore MemoMap: here and the blogs: here
Venturesome
In May 2017, I participated in a App Design-Sprint workshop hosted by the BBC. The goal was to flesh out an App that impacts an important change. Teams tackled topics such as fighting against fake news or filtering politics. However, my team’s idea was to make an app that protected one’s identity and actions when one was drunk. As I contributed the idea, creatively pushed my team to execute the idea and took a risk, the coaches from the BBC surprisingly loved the app and thought the overall app was a success.
Fast Learner & “Do-er”
On the 9th week at Makers Academy, my team had the challenge of building a Battle Game with React within a week. Individually, we learnt React in less than 48 hours and successfully implemented a presentable game. My contribution was writing React code whilst pair programming and also implementing the CSS, HTML and the design through React. You can explore the project here
| Project | Description | Technologies | Links | Testing Technologies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memomap | A travel diary of maps, memories and places | MERN stack | https://github.com/tmerrr/memomap | Mocha, Chai and Sinon |
| Dice | A recreation of a dice rolls that tests your luck | Javascript | https://github.com/thatdania/Javascript-Dice | Jasmine |
| MakersBNB | A recreation of AIRBNB | Javascript, Ruby | https://github.com/thatdania/MakersBnB | Rspec |
| RPS | A Rock Paper Scissors Challenge | Ruby | https://github.com/thatdania/rps-challenge | Rspec |
Technical Skills:
- Coding Languages (Javascript, Jquery, CSS, SCSS, HTML, REACT, basics of the MERN STACk)
- Coding Practices (DRY, TDD, CRUD)
- Adobe Suite (Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, XD)
- Google (Word, Excel, Slides, Drive)
Videographer- → Petrie Inventory | Keiko Nishiyama
I had the opportunity to film and edit the interviews about fashion designers Keiko Nishiyama and Edeline Lee. These videos told their stories of prepping for London and Paris fashion week.
Graphic Designer I assisted in sorting catalogues and brainstorming ideas for Cottage Chicken’s logo proposal.
Graduate from Makers Academy A three month coding bootcamp that engages determined people to shift their lives into the tech world as thriving developers.
Graphic Design & Communication BA (HONS): 2:1
- Head Degree Show Coordinator of the annual CSM Degree Show (2017)
- Voted Student rep twice based on a speech about Doritos Chips. Student reps were the voice of the year group that voiced suggestions and changes to be made in the course.
Certified Practitioner of NLP
A twelve-day course on learning how the language of the brain creates programs and patterns in human behaviour. This course was for the working demographic in Malaysia, which educated me on communication skills in different working industries.
- I create GIF collections on my Instagram (thatdania)
- I document parts of my life through blogging or Youtube videos
- I find new things to try or places to go, as I am an explorer at heart.