Amanda Pinsker
Part-Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design - The New School
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Pinsker is a product and interaction designer with 11 years of experience blending front-end development and UX strategy, currently teaching Interaction at Parsons while previously leading design at GitHub and Retool. She has hands-on experience shipping UI improvements in high-profile open-source projects like GitHub Desktop and the GitHub CLI, contributing to Primer CSS and polishing navigation components and authentication flows. Amanda pairs product-level research and design strategy with implementation chops—adjusting component styling, UX copy, and tests—to move features from prototype to production. As an independent consultant she has worked with studios like ustwo and Prose, and she’s comfortable mentoring teams and instituting research-driven processes from her director roles. Based in New York, she brings a designer-developer perspective that improves both visual detail and developer-facing tools. A subtle through-line in her work is an emphasis on clear UX writing and microcopy, which she’s repeatedly refined in CLI and desktop interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Interaction Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Interaction Design at Northeastern University
English, French
Github Skills (23)
github-cli10
git10
ui-components10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
cli10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 28 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the GitHub CLI. They made numerous copy edits across several files, including `command/pr.go`, `command/pr_create.go`, and `command/issue.go`, to improve clarity. Significant changes were made to the `command/root.go` and `pkg/cmd/config/config.go` files, demonstrating involvement in the command's structure and user configuration, and they restyled the authentication page. The user also updated tests to reflect the content and design changes.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
desktop/desktop
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 80 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily contributed to the UI of the application by modifying and refining elements within the notification banner and merge conflict dialog. These changes included repositioning elements, altering button text and styling, modifying button order, and adjusting the size of buttons. Additionally, the user made updates to the tutorial panel's copy, improving user guidance.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
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