Manuel Moreale

Who are you, and what do you do? Born Manuel Moreale, but I’m happy to simply be called Manu. The way I describe myself these days is that I’m a writer. It’s a somewhat misleading description since when you say writer people usually think at books but writing is what I do every day, both professionally and recreationally. I am a freelance web developer—been working solo from home for almost 15 years—and so my job consists primarily of writing code. I’m a trained graphic designer, that’s where my career started and that’s also the only professional qualification I actually have, but I then morphed first into a designer-who-codes, and now I’m more a developer-who-knows-design. I work primarily alongside other freelance designers or design studios, and I help them convert their projects into actual sites. But because I do have a design background, I can also provide feedback along the way and propose solutions that go beyond the basic code implementation. When I’m not writing code, I’m…