Dan Ross
Principal Human Interface Designer at Apple
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Ross is a Principal Human Interface Designer with 12 years of experience crafting product design, design systems, and tooling for companies from startups to Apple. He has led and co-founded design tooling initiatives—most notably helping build Shopify’s Polaris tooling and later elevating human interface work at Apple—bridging typographic craft and large-scale system thinking. Dan pairs hands-on brand, typeface, and interface design roots with product-level strategy, having shipped analytics, payments, and admin reimagining projects that tied design systems to measurable product outcomes. Based in Los Angeles, he thrives on making complex workflows intuitive and has a track record of turning creative direction into widely adopted tools (including a Photoshop extension with 250k+ downloads). Colleagues describe him as a design systems pragmatist who brings both pixel-level care and platform-scale discipline to cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Visual Media Design and Visual Communications, Bachelor of Visual Media Design and Visual Communications at Griffith University
Github Skills (37)
design-tokens10
shopify10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
photoshop10
react10
sketch-plugin9
adobe-xd9
svgr9
sketch-app9
sketch8
javascript7
cocoascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kieranblack/velositey
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 14 days
photoshopjavascriptpaneljsx
HYPD/polaris-icons-sketch
Mar 2019 - May 2019
A Sketch plugin that lets you quickly search for Polaris Icons and code snippets.
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
polarissketch-appsnippetssketchappadobe-xd
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