Frances Berriman
Product, Design And Technology Consultant at fberriman.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrances Berriman is a product, design and technology consultant based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience shaping digital public services and developer-focused products. She blends front-end engineering and UX leadership—having led product and design at Netlify and driven service design at Public Digital and the UK Government Digital Service—to translate complex policy and platform needs into clear, usable interfaces. Her hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like GOV.UK’s Whitehall and Decap CMS show a pragmatic focus on layout, accessibility and consistent UI patterns. Frances combines consultancy agility with operational leadership, equally comfortable shipping CSS/JS fixes and guiding cross-functional teams through product strategy. An artist and longtime volunteer in web standards communities, she brings a craft-oriented sensibility to design systems and public-facing documentation. Her background suggests a rare mix of government service design experience and commercial product scaling expertise that helps teams make services both usable and resilient.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours at University of PortsmouthCertificate of Higher Education, Certificate of Higher Education at University of Hertfordshire
Japanese
Github Skills (23)
git10
page-layout10
javascript10
layout10
github10
css10
git-repository10
user-interface10
ui-design10
datagovuk10
front-end-development10
html10
react10
responsive-design9
frontend8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Feb 2012 - Nov 2012
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Frances primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, focusing on layout and UI improvements within the `whitehall` repository. They made changes to views related to policies and speeches, introducing new layouts and restructuring document show pages to ensure a consistent structure. Their work involved modifications to HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript, as indicated by their edits to the `show.html.erb` and `application/on_ready.js` files. These changes suggest an effort to enhance the user experience and visual presentation of government content.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/government-service-design-manual
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
Government Service Design Manual
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Frances primarily worked on modifying the layout and navigation components of the website. They updated the navigation menu across multiple layouts, simplified the navigation structure, and made changes to how pages are displayed. The user also addressed inconsistencies and corrected the paths for Digital by Default standard. There were also some changes to the design of the template and some content changes.
manualgovernmentservice-design
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