Jakub Steiner
Principal Visual Designer at GNOME
Liberec, Northeast, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarJakub Steiner is a Principal Visual Designer with nearly two decades of experience shaping digital interfaces, branding, and icon systems for major open-source projects and enterprise software. Based in Liberec, Czechia, he has led visual design at Red Hat since 2010 and has long-standing contributions to GNOME, including the base icon theme and notable styling work on the widely used gnome-shell UI. His skills span iconography, interface skinning, interactive prototyping (including JavaScript/web), and 3D modeling/lighting—plus web development in PHP, Rails, CSS and JavaScript—allowing him to bridge visual craft with implementable front-end solutions. He’s also an early GIMP author, having published a GIMP guide in 2000, which highlights a deep, practical history with graphics tooling that informs his modern UI work.
18 years of coding experience
English, German
Github Skills (4)
gnome-shell10
ui-design10
css10
theming10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/gnome-shell
Mar 2011 - Jan 2023
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:221 commits in 12 years
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the user interface of the GNOME Shell, making significant changes to the styling. Their commits focused on theming aspects, including modifications to the appearance of the top bar, modal dialogs, calendar widget, and various other elements. The user's work involved adjusting colors, borders, and overall visual styles to enhance the user experience. They also addressed issues related to the appearance of ibus candidate popups and menu items.
gnome-shell-extensiongnomegitlabgnome-shellshell
GNOME/gnome-themes-extra
Apr 2011 - Mar 2022
Extra GNOME themes and theme-y tidbits
Contributions:403 commits in 11 years 1 month
themesgnome-shell-extensiongnome
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