Chris Connors
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Connors is a design leader with two decades of experience crafting award-winning, user-centered products across consumer, enterprise, aerospace, and government sectors. As a Design Principal at IBM and an early Apple iPad app designer, he blends hands-on interaction and UI design with team leadership, hiring, and delivery coaching to ensure solutions are useful, accessible, and implementable within real-world constraints. He champions iterative design cycles and design systems—contributing to IBM’s widely used Carbon Design System by refining React UI icon components—bringing both strategic vision and pixel-level attention. An adjunct MHCI-trained educator and occasional founder, he excels at reconciling long-term product quality with delivery timelines while spotting the subtle trade-offs between design intent and engineering reality.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Upper St. ClairBS, BS at Virginia TechMS Information Science, MS Information Science at University of PittsburghMHCI, MHCI at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
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javascript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
sys10
react10
ui-components10
sc9
scs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Sep 2018 - May 2020
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 33 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on the `carbon-design-system/carbon` repository, which involves developing UI components. Their commits focused on creating and modifying React components, specifically related to icons. The user added new icon variants, updated icon storybook examples, and refactored icon helper functions. This suggests a focus on building and maintaining the visual elements and components within the design system.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
chrisconnors-ibm/carbon
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
A design system built by IBM
Contributions:75 pushes, 26 branches in 11 months
reacttlamanualdesign-systemibm
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