Alex Bell
Studio Director at alexjbell.com
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Bell is a creative studio director and illustrator with 12 years of experience building distinctive product and brand experiences from Salt Lake City. He blends hands-on visual craft—hundreds of custom illustrations, icon fonts, and marketing videos—with leadership of design teams and studio operations across roles from Principal Artist to VP of Design. Alex pairs a fine art foundation from the University of Utah with practical front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like picturefill and mediaelement, where he improved testing infrastructure and front-end UI/CSS for broader browser compatibility. Known for modernizing legacy code and design systems alike, he excels at translating technical constraints into polished, accessible interfaces. Beyond agency and in-house leadership, he sustains a freelance practice that keeps his visual work experimental and client-focused.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
German
Github Skills (11)
css10
bem10
javascript10
qunit10
front-end-development10
jquery10
testing10
html5-video9
video-player9
html9
ui-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scottjehl/picturefill
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 commits, 16 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex's primary contributions involved updating testing frameworks and ensuring the picturefill library's functionality. The user updated QUnit and jQuery, essential dependencies for the project's test suite. Further, they refactored and removed deprecated QUnit features, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and modernizing the test infrastructure. They also addressed typo issues within documentation and code comments.
srcset
mediaelement/mediaelement
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 38 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on CSS and UI-related changes within the mediaelement repository. Their commits involved reducing specificity in CSS rules, deleting unused code and adding new classes. These changes improve the player's visual presentation and accessibility. They also refactored styles using BEM convention for class names, and improved the player's layout and visual rendering.
audiomediaelementmp3mp4soundcloud
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