Don Okuda
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Okuda is a San Francisco–based product designer and front-end developer with 13 years of experience crafting polished UIs and brand systems, including five years at GitHub where he helped shape desktop and extension experiences. He blends hand-coding chops (HTML, CSS/Sass, JavaScript) with graphic and motion design sensibilities from a BFA in Graphic Design, which shows up in thoughtful micro-interactions and visual polish across projects. Don has contributed UI work to well-known open-source projects like GitHub Desktop and Atom Teletype, implementing React/TypeScript components and refining layouts and styles. Comfortable moving between design systems and implementation details, he’s equally likely to prototype in After Effects as he is to refactor stylesheets or tune spacing in a timeline view. A longtime web enthusiast from Hawaii, he pairs a nostalgia for early web culture with modern tooling and a curious, music-driven creative practice. Colleagues describe him as hands-on, detail-oriented, and secretly adept at rescuing crosswalks.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Otis College of Art and Design
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
editors10
git10
javascript10
github10
xaml10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
visual-studio10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
typescripts10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
github-for-unity/Unity
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
GitHub for Unity
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:346 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Don focused on enhancing the UI and user experience within the "GitHub for Unity" project. Their contributions included adding and adjusting UI elements, such as indicator dots, merge icons, and timeline bars within the history view. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to spacing and padding to improve layout and visual presentation of the elements within the editor. They implemented several UI changes related to displaying data within the Unity Editor.
unityunity3dunity-scripts
desktop/desktop
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:789 commits, 36 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the GitHub Desktop application. They focused on the development of front-end components, including the implementation of a tab bar with React and TypeScript, and made styling changes, such as changing class names and applying different colors. They also worked on the commit message area and added styling to improve the user experience.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
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