Front-end Web Designer/Developer

Designer/developer with about 15 years experience making things for the web and beyond. I've had titles like design technologist, interaction designer, front-end developer and UX designer, working for design agencies and product startups. Reach out for CV and portfolio. I'd love to find a product team who are solving design problems with code, and who see that good user experience is not a layer at the top of the stack, but something that is equally concerned with decisions below the surface. (Although I very much do care about that surface level polish too, such as interactivity, typography, copy, visual hierarchy and clear affordances) For complex design problems, I like to look for the smallest set of primitives or basic rules that can support user needs and desired outcomes, and try to build the design "bottom-up" from those. This tends to lead to elegant solutions with fewer edge cases and exceptions, and hold up better when having to adapt to previously unknown needs. If you are working on something interesting that fits this description, and need a designer who feels more at home in code than in Figma, please get in touch!