Christopher France
Product Designer, Design Systems at Cypress.io
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher France is a product designer and design-systems lead with 18 years of interdisciplinary experience building data-driven products that improve communication, sensing, and developer workflows. Currently at Cypress, he blends UX research, design systems, and product thinking to rethink how automation and AI reshape testing, debugging, and developer feedback loops. His background spans design, frontend engineering, and data strategy across climate, healthcare, and civic tech — from co-founding LightField to directing design at Meedan and shaping ML-enabled dashboards at Litterati. He moves fluidly between sketching, ethnographic research, and shipping frontend code, enabling teams to turn complex domain data into usable products. Based in Oakland, he’s motivated by one core question: how can design and technology expand human capacity to address social and environmental challenges? A practical strategist as well as a builder, he often brings business model and pitching experience into technical product work.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications, Journalism, B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications, Journalism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (121)
e2e-testing10
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livereload10
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browserify10
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react-testing-library10
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test-automation10
angular-testing-library10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cbfrance/christopherbfrance.com
Sep 2010 - Oct 2016
React/Gatsby blog for http://unthinkingly.com
Contributions:43 commits, 85 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 2 months
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unthinkingly/archaeology-symbols
Aug 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:28 commits in 9 months
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