Édouard Urcades
Co-Founder at Flower Computer Company
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolÉdouard Urcades is a product-minded designer and engineer with 11 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and founding startups in New York. As Co-Founder of Flower Computer and previously Mornings, he blends industrial design roots (BSD, Arizona State) with full-stack web training from freeCodeCamp to ship thoughtful, tactile digital products. At Tlon and in significant open-source work on the Urbit org and platform, he focused on UI consistency, layout polish, and pragmatic front-end fixes that improve usability across chat, links, and launch modules. His background spans enterprise UX at IBM and senior product design at Tumblr, giving him a rare mix of large-scale process familiarity and scrappy startup execution. Known for "eternal optimism," he often surfaces small but impactful UI refinements that elevate product perception.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSD Industrial Design, BSD Industrial Design at Arizona State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-design10
react10
graphical-user-interface9
urbit9
user-interface9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit.org
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
The source for urbit.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 232 commits, 104 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Édouard primarily focused on front-end development tasks, making significant changes to the `templates/index.html` file. Their contributions included adding and removing elements from the page, such as signup forms, reordering content, and modifying margins. They also worked on styling and layout improvements, as well as fixing pagination issues. The user demonstrated a focus on refining the user interface and improving the overall presentation of the website.
urbit
urbit/urbit
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
An operating function
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 32 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Édouard primarily focused on front-end development within the Urbit repository, specifically within the interface packages. Their contributions involved modifying UI components, including adding padding, adjusting margins, and editing the styling of various elements such as headers and tab bars. They also worked on fixing icon rendering and other visual elements to improve the user experience across multiple modules like chat, links, and launch. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on maintaining UI consistency and visual polish.
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