Conor Muirhead
Head Of Product Design at Linear
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolConor Muirhead is a Head of Product Design with 11 years crafting focused, productive interfaces for teams and consumers from Spokane, Washington. He’s led design at fast-moving startups and product-first companies—currently heading design at Linear after prior leadership at Rewatch and several senior roles at Basecamp. Conor pairs hands-on UI work (including front-end contributions to Basecamp’s popular Trix rich text editor around attachment handling and UX polish) with product strategy, shipping mobile and web experiences that help people “get stuff done.” Known for translating complex workflows into clear, actionable interfaces, he thrives in remote-first teams and new product initiatives. He holds a BSc in Digital Design and brings a mix of craft-level attention to UI details and pragmatic leadership that accelerates product development.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital Design, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital Design at Colorado Technical University
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
editors10
javascript10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
html-editor9
ckeditor9
text-editor9
custom-element9
wysiwyg9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
basecamp/trix
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
A rich text editor for everyday writing
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily contributed to the user interface of the rich text editor, focusing on attachment handling and display. Their work involved modifying image and file attachment views, including the addition of captions, styling, and the implementation of a progress bar. The contributions also extended to updating fixture data and tests to reflect changes to the CSS classes used for attachments.
contenteditableeverydaytext-editingwysiwygjavascript
early/jims_gym
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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