Open to frontend work

UX-focused frontend developer building polished, accessible product interfaces.

I build user-friendly interfaces shaped by UX clarity, accessibility, responsive layouts, and performance-minded engineering.

Chicago-based Frontend Developer

Portrait of Jenna Zawaski

Frontend Product Quality

I focus on clear user flows, responsive layouts, feedback states, accessibility-minded decisions, and lightweight frontend implementation that keeps product behavior easy to understand and maintain.

UX Systems

Clear navigation, hierarchy, and reusable interaction patterns that help people understand where they are and what to do next.

Accessible Interfaces

Semantic markup, labeled controls, visible focus states, and user preference support treated as part of the product experience.

Product UI States

Loading, empty, error, success, quiz feedback, and progress states that make real application behavior visible and trustworthy.

Performance-Minded Implementation

Lightweight assets, responsive images, deliberate JavaScript, and quality checks that keep polished interfaces practical to ship.

Selected Work

Project cards show my role, UX/product problem, implementation proof, stack, and links to demos, case studies, or code.

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90-Second Review Path

Hiring managers should not have to hunt. Start with the flagship project, verify the live flow, scan the case study, then check the repo and quality notes.

  1. Open CodeHerWay live demo
  2. Trigger the main learner flow
  3. Read the Evidence Snapshot
  4. Check the GitHub repo
  5. Review quality notes and planned evidence

Skills

Frontend Engineering

Building responsive product interfaces with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and clear component thinking.

Strong focus on maintainable frontend code, data-connected UI, and real-world product behavior.

HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript (ES6+)

UX & Interface Design

Designing clear user flows, page hierarchy, interaction states, and layouts that help people move through product tasks.

Focused on practical interface decisions that support usability, scanning, and confidence.

Responsive Design UX Clarity Interaction States Product Flows

Accessibility & Inclusive UI

Creating interfaces with semantic structure, labeled forms, visible focus states, and user preference support.

Approach: I treat accessibility as product behavior that should be visible in forms, navigation, feedback, and content structure.

Experience improving UI clarity across responsive layouts and async product states.

Semantic HTML Focus states Form labels Preference-aware UI

Performance & Workflow

Working with quality checks, version control, testing, deployment workflows, and performance-conscious assets.

Focused on writing clean, maintainable code and keeping frontend changes easy to review and ship.

Comfortable working with backend-connected frontend apps using Supabase, APIs, authentication, and database-driven features.

Git GitHub Vite Netlify Playwright (E2E Testing)

About

My path into development has been intentional. My background in Information System Security taught me to think in systems and structure, while psychology shaped how I approach user experience and interaction.

I build with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and React, with a focus on clean UI systems, maintainable frontend code, accessibility, debugging, and real-world product behavior.

I’m also the founder of CodeHerWay. This is my passion project where I am building a platform to teach women how to code. I am intentional on supporting women entering tech through structured learning and mentorship resources.

I’m building my career with discipline and purpose — focused on creating interfaces that are clear, accessible and thoughtfully designed. I’m also interested in using AI and emerging developer tools to work more efficiently, document decisions clearly, and ship polished web interfaces faster.

Jenna Zawaski

Open to frontend work

Let’s build something useful.

I’m looking for frontend opportunities where I can build polished, accessible interfaces and real-world product features.

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