Andy Bell
Educator And Public Speaker
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAndy Bell is a founder, educator, and front-end specialist with over a decade of experience designing and building accessible, performant websites and design systems for clients from startups to Google and the Natural History Museum. As founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli he combines consultancy-led research and product design with hands-on implementation, shipping UI patterns, theme switching, service workers and modern CSS tooling. He’s an active open-source contributor—authoring the Hylia Eleventy starter, a modern CSS reset, and contributions to GoogleChrome’s web.dev—bringing practical improvements like image transforms, syntax highlighting and offline caching to real projects. A regular conference speaker and published author (co-author of Every Layout and major contributor to Learn CSS), he’s known for turning complex accessibility and performance goals into clear, data-driven briefs and delightful front-end experiences.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
eleventy10
web-application10
component-development10
css10
sass10
webpages10
service-worker10
front-end-development10
nunjucks10
webapp10
html10
syntax-highlighting10
ui-design9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Andy-set-studio/hylia
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
Hylia is a lightweight Eleventy starter kit to help you to create your own blog or personal website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 245 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on enhancing the front-end aspects of the Eleventy starter kit. They implemented core UI elements, including a theme toggle component and styling for post layouts and headings. Additionally, they added functionality such as image transformations and syntax highlighting, improving the visual presentation and user experience of the website. The user also integrated a basic service worker for potential offline functionality.
eleventyeleventy-themesass
xdesro/personalsit.es
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
📇 A little directory of people's personal sites
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:284 commits, 242 PRs, 264 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI elements and styling for the personal site directory. Their contributions include creating the initial UI, improving accessibility, and making various CSS tweaks. The user also added content and improved the layout of the site. Key changes involve modifying CSS for visual enhancements and accessibility adjustments.
sitesdirectory
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