Derek Briggs
Principal Product Designer at Shopify
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarDerek Briggs is a Principal Product Designer with 12 years of experience crafting pixel-perfect interfaces and bridging design with front-end implementation. He’s led visual design at startups and enterprises alike—most recently at Shopify after senior roles at PlanetScale, Percy, and hands-on design-engineering stints at Zed and Tailwind Labs. Derek pairs meticulous visual systems work (icons, theming, layout fixes, and animation) with practical engineering contributions to open-source projects like Zed and PlanetScale’s Beam, improving editor and UI experiences. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he thrives as an independent-minded design leader who values beautiful, grid-accurate outcomes—and once earned a smiley sticker for collaborating on his daughter’s kindergarten art project.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
tailwindcss10
ui-design10
gpu10
text-editor10
react10
rust-lang9
nextjs9
css7
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zed-industries/zed
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on improving the user interface and visual elements of the Zed code editor. Their contributions included updating icons, adding new icon sets, and refining the project panel's visual appearance. They also made adjustments to settings related to icons and indent sizes, ensuring a more customizable and user-friendly interface. These changes reflect a focus on enhancing the editor's visual design and overall user experience.
gpuirust-langtext-editorzed
planetscale/beam
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
A simple message board for your organization or project
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the application. Their contributions involved implementing an animation for the like button, merging changes, and fixing a layout bug. They also updated the theming of the application and incorporated a tooltip for displaying the users who liked a post.
messagemessage-boardsimple-messageboard
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