Ben Sperry
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sperry is an interactive product designer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience crafting minimalist, high-impact user experiences and brand identities. As co-founder and Chief Design Officer of Ionic, he led visual product design and company-wide branding for 12 years, helping grow Ionic into a top open-source project that powers millions of apps before its acquisition in 2022. His hands-on contributions to Ionic’s frameworks and site show deep front-end chops—styling, theming, component work and documentation that improved both developer and end-user experiences. Earlier roles include leading UI/UX for mobile games at PerBlue and agency work in interactive design, giving him a breadth of experience across product, web and print. Known for pairing elegant visual systems with practical operational leadership, he also ran hiring and internal processes that helped scale a distributed product team.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Shorewood High SchoolBS Graphic Design Illustration, BS Graphic Design Illustration at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (26)
ionice10
javascript10
fonts10
css10
font-style10
typescript10
ionic10
font-rendering10
typescript-types10
html10
capacitor10
typescripts10
documentation10
web-components9
frontend9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ionic-team/capacitor
May 2018 - May 2019
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying documentation files. They added descriptions, titles, and contributor information to numerous documentation pages across various topics, including getting started, plugins, APIs, and guides. Additionally, the user made updates to the documentation's formatting and styling, enhancing text readability and visual presentation. Their work focused on improving the clarity and completeness of the project's documentation.
ios-androidpwaiosmobilecss
ionic-team/ionic-site
Oct 2013 - Apr 2015
Repo for the ionicframework.com site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:507 commits, 32 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the front-end of the `ionic-site` repository. Their work focused on integrating web fonts, changing the size of headings, updating the footer, and adding various design elements. They also added content to the "About" section, demonstrating involvement in the website's information architecture and content updates. The user's contributions were focused on UI improvements and content updates.
ionicframeworkionicangularionic-framework
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