Harry Fischer
Designer at Guardian Media Group plc
Summary
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RockstarHarry Fischer is a front-end focused digital designer with seven years of experience crafting responsive, audience-facing interfaces, currently known for work at The Guardian. He blends design sensibility with hands-on front-end development, contributing to high-profile projects like guardian/frontend where he added topical badges and refined navigation and podcast components. Comfortable shipping changes that tie editorial needs to UI behavior, he demonstrates a pragmatic approach to design systems in a news environment with fast editorial cycles. Based in the UK, he brings a newsroom-aware mindset that balances immediacy and polish under tight deadlines. Colleagues rely on him to translate editorial events—elections, COP26, audio features—into clear, usable front-end experiences.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
scala10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 100 commits, 73 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on updating and adding badges to the application, specifically modifying the `Badges.scala` file. The contributions involved adding new badges related to various news topics and events, such as elections and the COP26 climate conference. Additionally, the user made changes to front-end components related to Today in Focus podcast, navigation, and a skin, which are shown in other commits.
productionguardian
HarryFischer/alexandermourant
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Portfolio of Alex Mourant
Contributions:2 PRs, 2050 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
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