Colin Macarthur
Director Of Project Impact at Università Bocconi
Granville, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Macarthur is a design and research leader with 11 years of experience shaping digital government services and building high-performing interdisciplinary teams. As Director of Project Impact at Bloom Works and formerly Director of Digital Practice at the Canadian Digital Service, he has led large-scale delivery programs—staffing cross-functional teams for high-impact products like COVID Alert and Benefits Finder—and institutionalized hiring, performance and accessibility practices. He combines hands-on UX research and front-end contribution (including to the widely used U.S. Web Design System) with academic roles teaching cybersecurity policy and AI governance at Bocconi and Northeastern. Known for translating complex policy and technical risks into pragmatic design and organizational change, he also co-created government-facing toolkits and communities of practice that persist across agencies. Based in Granville, Ohio, he blends rigorous academic training from UC Berkeley with a public-service mindset and a track record of scaling human-centered design in government.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Management and Systems, User Experience Research, Master of Information Management and Systems, User Experience Research at University of California, Berkeley - School of InformationBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Summa cum laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Summa cum laude at Carleton College
German
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
html10
system10
javascript10
system-design10
front-end-development10
uswds10
ui-components10
user-experience9
g9
e-government9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uswds/uswds
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 41 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the front-end development of the U.S. Web Design System, making changes to the visual style guide and UI components. They updated the sidenav, added Google Analytics event listeners to the homepage and header, and modified the footer. Furthermore, the user also updated the getting started section of the website, as well as changing wording on the website header.
accessibleuswdsfederal-governmentweb-designclarity
18F/fs-human-centered-design
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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