Ben Truelove
Designer at Microsoft Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Truelove is a Seattle-based designer with nine years of hands-on experience building polished, accessible front-end interfaces. He blends design sensibility with practical engineering, routinely implementing React components and tweaking visual details to improve usability and consistency. As a contributor to Microsoft's high-profile Fluent UI project, he has focused on refining component appearance and accessibility across controls like ChoiceGroup, MessageBar, and Toggle. Ben is comfortable working in large open-source ecosystems and thrives on fixing subtle UI issues that materially improve product quality. He pairs a maker’s mindset—"designer who likes to build things"—with a pragmatic attention to detail that helps cross-functional teams ship cleaner, more accessible interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
ui-design9
javascript8
accessibility8
css7
fluentd7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 76 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on modifying and implementing UI components using React within the Fluent UI web framework. Their work involved fixing visual issues like mask colors, and aligning option heights. They also contributed to updating various UI elements and components such as ChoiceGroup, MessageBar, and Toggle to improve accessibility and visual appearance. The user's contributions indicate a focus on maintaining and enhancing the visual aspects of the UI library.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
betrue-final-final/office-ui-fabric-react
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 15 branches, 10 tags in 3 years 2 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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