Brian Talbot
Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Talbot is a seasoned UX and front-end leader with 13 years of experience designing products for big brands, startups, and non-profits from Melrose, MA. He led design at edX and ThinkGeek, blending hands-on front-end work—contributions to Open edX’s LMS and assessment suite—with cultural and process improvements that help teams ship accessible, polished interfaces. Comfortable in both design and code, he’s known for thoughtful UI details (from semantic markup and accessibility fixes to visual refreshes) and a playful engineering persona—“pushin’ warm cookies and cool pixels.” As a former instructor and long-time agency designer, he brings practiced mentorship and a systems view that elevates product quality beyond isolated screens.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at College of the Holy CrossM.S., M.S. at Simmons University
Github Skills (11)
html10
accessibility10
css10
sass10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
openedx9
font-awesome9
react4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-ora2
Feb 2014 - Nov 2015
Open Response Assessment Suite
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:196 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of the front-end user interface, focusing on templates and UI elements. They implemented basic HTML templates for various aspects of the Open Response Assessment Suite, including response display, peer evaluations, and self-assessment components. Their work involved adding UI elements and structure, as seen by the code differences in HTML files like `t-peer-evaluation.html` and `t-response.html`. The user's commits focused on the front-end presentation and user interaction aspects of the Open edX platform's assessment features.
assessmentpythonsuite
openedx/openedx-platform
Nov 2012 - Jan 2016
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:534 commits, 187 PRs, 341 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on front-end development within the Open edX platform, as evidenced by their work on UI elements, styling, and accessibility improvements. They revised the semantic markup of calculator tooltips, implemented visual styling changes, and updated the UI to use new Font Awesome-based classes. The user also addressed accessibility feedback by revising DOM elements and modifying the LinkedIn profile link. Additionally, they updated the certificate-based UI.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
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