I’m a product and design system designer/developer working for GitHub remotely from London.
What I’m doing now
- Design engineering on GitHub Copilot
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Designing GitHub Actions and Advanced Security - Running
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I’ve been designing GitHub for two years today.
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I am a creative. - A List Apart
Enthusiasm is best saved for the meeting where it will make a difference.
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Our monthly rent in east London, rounded to the nearest year:
- 2017 - £1700
- 2018 - £1750
- 2019 - £1800
- 2020 - £1850
- 2021 - No increase
- 2022 - £1900
- 2023 - £2500
- 2024 - £2675
Currently listed for £2850.
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How should designers code?
I’m going to skip the tired “should designers code?” discussion. You can be a successful designer either way, but I personally believe that software is never built with more attention to detail than when it’s coded by the person who designed it.
Let’s say you agree. Let’s also say you have at least some basic technical skills and want to use them to contribute in your day job. Now what? How should designers code? How can you actually get involved in the development process at work?
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In Defense of Shutting the Fuck Up - Reply Alt
Lately I am more prone to shutting the fuck up. I don’t know if it’s me or the internet that’s changed since then. Probably a little of both. I definitely feel less of a desire to stay hyperconnected to culture as I age, but social media has also taken a palpable nosedive over the last few years that has rendered it nearly unusable.
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These are people desperate to be heard but with nothing to say. Who would want such a fate? It reminds me of that line from the first scene of No Country for Old Men. “A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He’d have to say, ‘Okay. I’ll be part of this world.’”
If you spend too much time getting lost in it, it all feels very important. But when you take even the smallest step back, out of this online prison of our own making, you realize none of it actually matters.