Alison Joseph
Lead Design Engineer, GM Design System at General Motors
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Joseph is a design systems leader with 10 years of experience building accessible, production-grade front-end components and design tooling. Currently leading GM’s Design System after a multi-year tenure as Senior Engineering Manager for IBM’s Carbon Design System, she blends hands-on React/CSS development with cross-functional program leadership. She has shipped improvements across Carbon’s core components and website, contributed to IBM Plex typography, and helped bridge design-to-code workflows like Figma Code Connect. A member of the W3C CSS Working Group, Alison pairs standards advocacy with practical prototyping to evolve UX patterns and accessibility. Based in Austin, she’s known for scaling design system adoption across large organizations while staying deeply involved in front-end craft and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Multimedia and Web Design, Bachelor of Arts, Multimedia and Web Design at The Art Institutes
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Github Skills (22)
accessibility10
javascript10
acc10
fonts10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
typeface10
component-development10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
sc10
uid10
scs10
front-end-development10
gatsbyjs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:448 reviews, 406 commits, 543 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alison primarily focused on updating and refining the user interface of the Carbon website. They addressed issues by removing unnecessary class names, ensuring better alignment with the intended design system. They also implemented new features, such as a homepage video and pictogram library, contributing to improved user experience and content presentation. The user demonstrated experience in front-end technologies such as React.js.
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carbon-design-system/gatsby-theme-carbon
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
A Carbon inspired Gatsby theme
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 85 reviews, 233 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Gatsby theme. Their work focused on adding and updating components, such as the DoDontExample, including their styling and functionality. They also made adjustments to existing components to integrate with the Carbon Design System and improve overall layout and user experience. Further improvements were made to the ImageCard component, and also made additions to the Video component.
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