James Cornford
Staff Content Designer at JCornford
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Cornford is a strategic Staff Content Designer with 11+ years crafting content and brand strategy across agencies and enterprise clients, currently shaping digital experiences at TELUS Digital in Vancouver. He has delivered content-first solutions for Fortune 100 companies, major publishers and Olympic-scale events, and once created the first content strategy for a Fortune 100 insurer. Equally comfortable in creative and technical contexts, James contributes to front-end projects (notably improving demo sites for popular React libraries like react-live and prism-react-renderer) and has hands-on experience with React Native. His background as a journalist and TV contributor gives him a storyteller’s instinct for clear, audience-focused messaging that scales across channels. He blends product thinking, UX-driven content strategy and practical engineering fluency, making him a go-to for teams bridging content, design and development. Outside work he’s kept playful curiosity—recently noted on GitHub as a “sneaky snek”—which mirrors his habit of surfacing unexpected opportunities in projects.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Cinematography and Film/Video Production at TransmediaGCSEs: English Literature English Media Studies Information Technology. Maths Geography Science, GCSEs: English Literature English Media Studies Information Technology. Maths Geography Science at Claverham Community CollegeWeb Design Level 1 & Level 2, Web Design Level 1 & Level 2 at Hastings CollegeBachelor's Degree in Marketing CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing, Bachelor's Degree in Marketing CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing at Oxford College of MarketingA-Levels: Computing Media Studies General Studies, A-Levels: Computing Media Studies General Studies at Bexhill College
Github Skills (12)
component-development10
css10
javascript10
react10
jsx10
storybook9
styled-components9
nextjs8
babel-core7
babeljs7
rollupjs7
babel67
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/react-live
Sep 2020 - May 2022
A flexible playground for live editing React components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 66 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily modernized and updated the demo site for the React Live project. This involved refactoring existing code, updating dependencies, and migrating components to functional components. They also addressed linting errors and made minor adjustments to the editor and preview components to enhance the user experience. These changes focused on improving the demo site's functionality and maintainability.
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FormidableLabs/prism-react-renderer
Jan 2022 - May 2022
🖌️ Renders highlighted Prism output to React (+ theming & vendored Prism)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 16 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the demo site for the `prism-react-renderer` repository. Their contributions involved updates to the demo application's `index.html`, `App.js`, `index.js`, `index.css`, and `reportWebVitals.js` files. These changes suggest modifications related to UI components, structure, and potentially performance improvements. The commits also include a refactor of the prism-core files.
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