What is UI Engineering?

UI Engineering, a key service offered by AntStack, is the process of designing and developing user interfaces for software applications, websites, or digital products. It involves creating visually appealing and interactive interfaces that enhance user experience and usability, with a special focus on serverless UI engineering.

What does a UI Engineer do?

A UI Engineer at AntStack combines design and frontend development skills to create user interfaces. They transform visual designs into functional interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like Next.js and Astro. They focus on implementing responsive layouts, optimizing performance, and ensuring cross-browser compatibility.

Why is UI Engineering important?

UI Engineering plays a crucial role in providing users with a seamless and intuitive experience. Well-designed interfaces improve user engagement, increase customer satisfaction, and boost overall product adoption. It ensures interfaces are visually appealing, accessible, and functional across different devices and platforms.

How does UI Engineering differ from UX Design?

While UX Design focuses on the overall user experience, UI Engineering, a specialty of AntStack, specifically deals with the implementation of the visual and interactive aspects of the interface. UX Designers conduct user research and design user flows, while UI Engineers translate those designs into code, ensuring they are functional and visually consistent.

What technologies do UI Engineers use?

UI Engineers at AntStack utilize various technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like Next.js and Astro. They also work with design tools like Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma to collaborate with designers and ensure accurate implementation of visual designs. Netlify is often used to help with frontend and serverless deployments .

How does UI Engineering contribute to responsive design?

UI Engineering, is responsible for creating responsive layouts that adapt to different screen sizes and devices. By utilizing techniques like fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, UI Engineers ensure that interfaces look and function well on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.

How do UI Engineers ensure accessibility in their designs?

UI Engineers at AntStack follow accessibility guidelines such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to ensure that interfaces are usable by individuals with disabilities. They implement proper HTML semantics, provide alternative text for images, and design with considerations for color contrast and keyboard navigation.

Can UI Engineers work with existing codebases?

Yes, UI Engineers at AntStack are proficient in working with existing codebases. They can collaborate with development teams to implement UI changes, improve existing interfaces, and refactor code to enhance performance and maintainability. Their expertise in serverless UI engineering and tools like Netlify allows them to work efficiently and effectively with various codebases.

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Building gracefully engineered

Art meets engineering - Give your engineering complexities an artistic and graceful user interface and offer pure customer delight.

Performance-focused

Performance, accessibility, and SEO are the primary factors that affect the user experience and business directly. We ensure these are delivered just right for your customers.

Responsive First

The world will only add more and more devices. A responsive-first approach helps you reach more customers on multiple devices. It empowers your business to have limitless opportunities.

Secure, always. Anywhere

We follow the industry's best practices to ensure secure and safe interfaces. We strive to secure your customer's data and privacy.

Evolve faster

Our people, process and platforms are geared to be agile, enabling your business to evolve faster to meet the customers' growing needs.

Built to Scale

Made out of highly reusable and lightweight UI components, we help you seamlessly scale on multiple devices for millions of users.

Reduce blast radius

Microservices-driven architectural approach minimises the blast radius of the interfaces and helps developers to remediate it faster.

Tech Stack

We utilise modern front-end tech stack that includes industry-standard technologies to build visually appealing, scalable, and high-performance user interfaces.

Figma

React

NextJS

Sentry

Typsecript

Astro

Svelte

Netlify

Vercel

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Michael Kabella

Sr. Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics

When we needed to deliver an innovative, life-saving project utilising the AWS serverless stack, AntStack was our go-to partner. AntStack has not been just a contractor or just a consultant, but rather their topflight engineers and architects have been a natural extension of our own team.I certainly look forward to continuing to partner with AntStack for our future endeavours.

Jody Brazil

CEO, Firemon

With the ready AWS development expertise, AntStack helped us turnkey the cloud native development without the wait to fully train up internal developers. We had a positive working experience, the folks are always supportive during challenging times. It is crucial to enable our MVP rollouts and the overall digital transformation.