Christopher Newton
Product Designer at Fieldfolio
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Newton is a Product Designer with 12 years of experience crafting digital experiences across sports tech, enterprise brands, and fashion retail, currently designing at Fieldfolio in the Greater Seattle Area. Trained with a Master of Design from RMIT, he blends visual communication and UX thinking to solve product problems from concept through execution. His background includes agency work for Mercedes, Mazda and Formula One as well as in-house roles at Pixformance and SSENSE, giving him a strong cross-disciplinary perspective on brand-driven, performance-focused design. He also contributes code-focused UX improvements as a full‑stack developer on open-source tooling, notably enhancing the k command-line script with colorized output, git status integration and performance refactors—an indicator of his practical, developer-friendly approach to product design.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Design, Graphic Communication, Master of Design, Graphic Communication at RMIT University
Github Skills (12)
command-line-tool10
git10
command-line-interface10
script10
cli-tools10
zsh10
command-line10
cli10
scripting9
shell9
sh9
filesystem7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
supercrabtree/k
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
k is the new l, yo
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 68 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on enhancing the `k` script, a command-line tool. Their contributions focused on improving the user experience through visual enhancements, such as color-coding file and directory information, and integrating git repository status indicators. They also refactored code, optimized performance, and addressed bug fixes related to handling files and directories within the script.
chrstphrknwtn/eb-garamond
Feb 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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