Dave Whitley
Senior Product Designer at Automattic
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDave Whitley is a Senior Product Designer with 12 years of experience who blends hands-on front-end development instincts with polished visual design to ship usable, beautiful products. Based at Automattic, he currently works on Tumblr and has previously contributed to WordPress.com and the cross-platform Simplenote Electron app, where he improved UI components, CSS organization, and iconography. A generalist by nature, he enjoys digging into code to solve interaction problems and refine component semantics, which helps bridge design and engineering teams. Trained with a BFA from Mississippi State, he brings a practical studio background to large-scale product work and a track record of improving UX through thoughtful front-end contributions.
12 years of coding experience
BFA, BFA at Mississippi State University
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Github Skills (12)
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
component-design10
react10
iconsets9
app-icon9
icon-pack9
electron8
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-electron
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the Simplenote-Electron repository by implementing and updating UI components. They refactored and moved CSS styles for components, ensuring proper organization. They also updated and added new icons, enhancing the visual elements of the application. Further contributions included renaming classes for better semantic clarity and adjusting button styles, indicating a focus on improving the overall user interface and experience.
reactwindowselectronlinuxwindows-web
WordPress/design-experiments
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
A simple plugin for WP-Admin design experiments. Brought to you by the WordPress Design Team.
Contributions:100 commits, 1 PR in 14 days
adminwordpresswordpress-themedesign-teamwp-admin
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