Alan Wilson
Principal Designer at Brigham Young University
Lehi, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Wilson is a Principal Designer with over a decade of experience shaping Adobe Experience Cloud’s visual, UX, and product strategy while mentoring a 700+ designer community. He led the creation of Spectrum and architectural design for products like Journey Optimizer and GenStudio, and now heads a team making Adobe’s products more composable to unlock advanced AI capabilities. Alan blends deep expertise in design systems, UX architecture, and data visualization—having built a company-standard charting library—and is learning to code to bridge design and engineering more directly. He also teaches UX and data visualization at BYU, modernizing curriculum with practical AI and storytelling techniques that reflect real product challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (31)
visualization10
vega10
charts10
css10
trend10
spectrum10
plot10
grammar10
svg10
vega-lite10
charting9
canvas9
data-visualization9
react8
design-tokens8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alangwilson/sp_grid
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
cssgridplayingcss-grid
alangwilson/awesome-design-systems
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 days
reactcssdesigndesign-systemdesign-systems
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