In a world where the competitive advantage no longer is limited to a profit over cost calculation but has expanded in its ability to attract, motivate and retain top talents .To have a wonderful workplace experience,you have 3 keys.

Identify the workplace archetypes

The workplace represents a gathering point for many different people with different behaviors and needs. Even though all people are different, you’ll often experience that some similarities between certain groups of people persist. We like to call these groups of people with similar behavior patterns, needs and preferences; archetypes.To create excellent workplace experiences; one of our keys must be to successfully identify the diverse archetypes that are present in our respective offices – map their behavior and understand where we can create the single biggest emotional difference.

Empathize..Empathize..Empathize

When focusing on creating great workplace experiences the worst you can do is not to pay attention to the diverse needs that are present in a workplace environment.For once, we must put our heavy excel sheets and surveys aside and do what separates us as humans from all other species on earth – the ability to empathize.Empathizing with the end-users allows us, like nothing else, to understand where we can make the single biggest difference in their everyday life and thus – how we can connect with our workplace users on an emotional level.

Apply human-centered design thinking

To understand the employee journey and detect which specific services you need to work with, Service Design as a method can be extremely useful to apply.Through its enormous focus on empathy, Service Design creates the foundation for ensuring that all parts of the employee journey are analyzed with respect to the individual personas or archetypes occupying the same workplace.It nevertheless helps us to be less service-specific and more human-centered. It all lies in the ability to build our services around humans rather than facilities.

There are many ways for you to get a taste of day-to-day working life, and engaging in a variety of workplace experiences throughout your time at University is like a taking your future for a test drive.Internships are one way of getting industry experience, but there are plenty of others. These come under the definition of ‘workplace experiences’ and range from one-day site visits to job shadowing and externships.The insights you gain from these experiences can help you make informed decisions about the courses you take and the type of work you look for after your graduate.

Benefits of taking part in these kinds of placements:

>>You may discover roles available to you that you hadn’t associated with your degree.

>>You’ll get a clearer picture for what is important to you in a workplace culture.

>>You could find a new passion or skill set that you choose to pursue academically.

These experiences can build on each other: you might first attend a site visit to an organisation, then participate in work experience in another area or industry, then get back in touch with someone you met on the site visit and do an internship with their organisation.Workplace experiences look great on your CV, and learning from the feedback you receive from employers will make you more employable when you graduate.

Workplace experiences will:

>>Offer you the chance to explore a variety of careers, including those outside of your direct study path.

>>Help you understand the reality and the responsibilities of an employee.

>>Help you develop confidence and skills needed in the workplace, and will also highlight skills you need to develop.

>>Give you great networking opportunities – you never know who you might meet that could help you in your future.

We all use the web every single day, but how many of us actually know how it works and the concepts used in it.

The Web

A British Computer Scientist, Berners Lee in 1989 set out to solve one major problem: how can we share and manage information throughout the world?At the very core of it, the Internet is just a series of computers connected by millions of cables. In contrast, the web consists of billions of digital pages that are view-able through web browsers on your computers.

We have these things called clients and servers that make the web possible.

Clients are essentially your devices. Anything you (the user) uses to connect to the internet is a client.

Servers are big computers that store web pages, data, etc. So, when you visit a website, your device talks to the server to get the web page you requested.

DNS stands for Domain Name Servers, and their only job is to take in a web address and retrieve the real website address. It’s essentially a big address book.

HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol, defines the language for clients and servers to communicate with.

TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, define how data should travel through the web.

Let’s walk through the scenario of what happens when you type a website into your browser and hit Enter.

1. Your browser heads over to the DNS server to find the real address of the server your requested website lives on. You can think of the address you type in to the search bar as the street address, and the address returned from the DNS server as the geographic coordinates of the same building. URLs (Universal Resource Locators) are useful for humans, because they’re easily memorizable. However, computers connect to other computers using IP addresses that look like this: 63.245.215.20.
2. Next, your browser sends an HTTP request to the server asking if it can send a copy of the website back to your client device. The messages sent between the client and server are communicated through TCP/IP.
3. Once the server approves the request, it sends a “200 OK” message, indicating that you’re allowed to view the website. If something goes awry, you’ll receive a different response code back. One of the more common responses you might get is a “404 Not Found” error.
4. Lastly, the browser assembles the bits (chunks) of website into a full web page and displays it to you. When data is sent across the web, it’s sent in packets; small chunks of data. This is done so that many users can access the same content at the same time.

Front-end Development is responsible for developing the face of the web page that users interact with. Front-end development also functions as a bridge between design (research, user experience, visual) and back-end development.

Back-end Development is responsible for creating the computational logic behind a website or application.

The Importance Of Design

We often forget how vital design is throughout the application development process. What’s great about front-end development is that it allows you to bridge the gap between design and back-end development.Thus, it’s important for front-end developers (FEDs) to care about best UX and visual design practices.