Ellie Hirth
Staff User Experience Designer, Safety Net Platforms
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEllie Hirth is a multidisciplinary UX designer and design technologist with 12 years of experience building human-centered digital services for government and civic organizations. Currently a Staff UX Designer at Code for America, she leads design system efforts and maintains a core Form Flow Builder used to deploy accessible digital forms for state governments nationwide. Her background spans hands-on front-end engineering and product design from running her own studio to leading dev teams at the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, where she helped New Yorkers navigate social services during the pandemic. Ellie combines technical fluency across modern web stacks with formal training in data science, woodworking/physical computing, and human-centered design for social innovation. She’s known for translating complex policy and accessibility requirements into practical, reusable design assets and mentoring junior designers to exceed WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Practical, policy-focused, and curious, she brings an uncommon blend of craft, code, and public-service impact to product design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation, Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation at +AcumenData Science, Data Science at General AssemblyBFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Maryville University of Saint LouisWoodworking, Metalworking, Physical Computing, and Processing, Woodworking, Metalworking, Physical Computing, and Processing at 3rd Ward
Github Skills (109)
nyc10
svg-sprite10
composer10
x-plane10
stylelint10
wordpress10
pattern10
uid10
clarity10
wpengine10
uswds10
reservation-system10
dart-sass10
svgo10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
devowhippit/ga-ds-project
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
CityOfNewYork/nyco-wp-config
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
A WordPress package for environment configuration. Maintained by @NYCOpportunity
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 3 years 11 months
configurationcivic-techwordpressphpenvironment-configuration
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