At GitHub I was embedded in several teams where I was involved in designing, building, and shipping several features. These included GitHub Projects, Custom Properties, Repository Rulesets, a GitHub Marketplace design refactor, and a redesigned OAuth installation page that is still in use today. I was also an early contributor to the Primer Design System.

I was a co-founder and Founding Designer for the short-lived Screenbeacon, an app for monitoring visual regressions on production websites. My co-founders and I were inspired by our experience of maintaining several websites for ZURB. We dealt with so many embarrassing visual regressions due to unexpected side-effects of CSS updates. We built this app from scratch. We were featured on Product Hunt and even got some revenue coming in. Ultimately it didn't work out, but it was still a great learning experience.

At ZURB I worked with clients of all sizes to kickoff a product design sprint and produce a finished set of deliverables—typically this included a polished visual design, front-end code for web pages, and a style guide. Working at ZURB felt like boot camp. I learned so much in such a short amount of time. I was responsible for planning strategy, sketching (I became an expert with a Sharpie), wireframing, visual design, front-end code, and QA (for some contracts I still had to test for IE6 🤢).

However, I think the highlight of working at ZURB was the opportunity to help maintain Foundation. Foundation is an open source design system (back then we called them "frameworks") for websites, and it was one of the first to be responsive by default. I ended up making a lot of contributions. This is what got me interested in open source code, and it eventually led me to GitHub.