Question: How are you creative?

Sarah Doran answered on 29 Feb 2016:

Heya,

Good question! There are lots of different ways you can be creative as a programmer. The obvious one is in visual design: when adding a new feature (e.g. a Like button like the the one on the question above), I’ll work with a designer in the team on how it should look, what colour, size etc but I would suggest some of the cooler stuff like animations when you click it. I’m always keeping an eye out for cool animations I could use.

Some people say writing code is like writing poetry. We always try to write code that is easy for other people to read and is as short as possible. Imagine if instructions to play a video game were 20 pages long.. it would take aages to read and you would probably loose your patience and not play the game. So sometimes you have to be creative in how you write your code into shorter snippets and make sure it still works!