James Carleton
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at JPMorganChase
Saratoga, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Carleton is a seasoned design systems leader with 12+ years crafting scalable UI foundations for major consumer and enterprise products, currently shaping commercial banking design at JPMorgan Chase. He specializes in turning complex product needs into cohesive component libraries, documentation, and workflows that drive cross-team adoption and accessibility. A pragmatic collaborator, James has led rapid visual language rollouts at PayPal and helped evolve eBay’s One Experience playbook while mentoring designers and improving engineering coordination. He blends industrial-design roots and front-end fluency with a hands-on freelance background, using side projects as a lab to test new tools and refine his craft. Based in Saratoga, CA, he balances a product-focused discipline with a service mindset—avoiding scope creep and vague meetings—so teams ship elegant, human-centered experiences.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Industrial Design, BS Industrial Design at San José State UniversityAssociates Art, Associates Art at Hartnell College
Github Skills (28)
bem9
inline-css8
external8
styles8
css-library8
css-variables8
bem-methodology8
css-transitions8
stylesheets8
robust7
purecss7
marketplace7
react6
css6
right-to-left6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fwg001/fwg001.github.io
Feb 2014 - Oct 2016
Blog/Portfolio
Contributions:87 commits, 62 PRs, 189 pushes in 2 years 8 months
javascriptreactportfolio-blog
campbell-toy-drive/campbell-toy-drive.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
toyjekyll-basedjekyllruby
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