Allison Shaw
Director Of Design, Spectrum Design System at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Shaw is a design leader with a decade-plus track record building and scaling design systems for major products at Adobe, Zendesk, Twitter, Thumbtack, and Yelp. She blends product design craft with engineering fluency—“meticulous with design, dangerous with code”—to create accessible, consistent systems that power both internal products and open-source communities. As a manager she prioritizes people, setting clear context and removing obstacles so diverse teams can deliver high-quality work. Her career includes founding living design systems long before the term was mainstream and teaching hands-on accessibility workshops. Based in San Francisco, she focuses on design systems that improve usability and measurably impact user outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Graphic Design, BA Graphic Design at American UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Interaction Design, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts
Spanish
Github Skills (44)
svgr10
adobe-xd10
react9
feather9
octicons8
react-components8
design-tokens7
css7
svg-files7
branding7
garden7
svg7
sketch-app6
ux-design6
sketch-plugin5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allisonacs/allison-shaw.com
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:16 PRs, 24 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 4 months
reactnextjs
allisonacs/readme
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
A personal readme for the people I manage.
Contributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years
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