Carl Fairclough
Head Of Product Design at Best Friend Studio
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Fairclough is a Head of Product Design with 11 years of experience crafting consumer and privacy-focused products across crypto, fintech, and large-scale government programs. He combines hands-on front-end craft—contributing UI and dark-mode improvements to ethereum.org—with strategic leadership roles from founding product studios to scaling design systems at enterprise and startup stages. At companies like Disco.xyz, Status, and ConsenSys he established rapid-experimentation practices, design system governance, and UX strategies for constrained markets (e.g., remittances and volatile-currency savings). Known for translating ambiguous problems into shipped products, he has repeatedly fused research, product strategy, and engineering execution to move teams from validation to growth. Outside work he’s a midcentury collector and classic car tinkerer, a detail-oriented makerly side that surfaces in his product work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Math Physics, Math Physics at Winstanley College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
css4
html4
vue-jsx4
chakra-ui4
vue4
ethereum3
nextjs3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/ethereum-org-website
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Ethereum.org is a primary online resource for the Ethereum community.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:139 commits, 34 PRs, 90 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Ethereum.org website, focusing on the creation and modification of UI components. They introduced a new icon component and updated existing ones to handle dark mode, improving the website's visual appearance and user experience. Furthermore, they seem to have made changes to the website header, and also removed unused props to optimize the code.
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carlfairclough/ethereum-org-website
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Ethereum.org is a primary online resource for the Ethereum community.
Contributions:114 pushes, 42 branches in 2 months
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