Ed Lea
Director Of Product Design at Personio
Mountain View, California, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Lea is a product design leader with 13 years of experience shaping consumer and hardware experiences at scale, currently directing Product Design at Personio after senior roles leading UX for Google Search, Pixel Watch & Fitbit, and YouTube TV. He combines deep product strategy and hands-on design craft—dating back to early web motion work at Abbey Road Studios—with a talent for building diverse, purpose-driven teams that ship complex, impactful products. Passionate about access to information and mindful of technology’s societal effects, he focuses on balancing innovation with healthy user outcomes. An early open-source contributor to front-end tooling (notably a jQuery image gallery plugin), he brings both pragmatic engineering empathy and a long history of designing for millions of users.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design at Anglia Ruskin University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
javascript10
image-gallery10
front-end-development10
jquery10
css9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ed-lea/jquery-collagePlus
Jul 2012 - Dec 2013
Create an image gallery like Google+ Albums
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the development of a jQuery plugin named "collagePlus" designed to create image galleries. Their work involved the initial setup of the plugin, adding features like minified versions and image captioning. They implemented changes to image hiding methods to improve measurements and incorporated window resize functionality. The contributions focused on enhancing the visual presentation and responsiveness of the image gallery.
galleryimage-galleryalbums
ed-lea/easyshare.sketchplugin
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 7 pushes in 4 days
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