Jared Erickson
Head Of Design at Switchyards
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Erickson is a creative design leader with 14 years of experience blending brand, product, and physical experiences as Head of Design at Switchyards and founder of his studio, less made. He brings a hands-on approach to projects—from crafting minimal WordPress themes and responsive front-end work to building real-world maker spaces like Brother Moto. Jared pairs strategic branding and apparel design with practical UI theming chops, evidenced by contributions to the alliswell/Less theme and responsive video embedding enhancements. Based in Atlanta, he leads teams that value craft, utility, and a playful spirit, often solving problems by prototyping fast and iterating in the real world. Outside the studio he breaks things and fixes motorcycles, a practical maker’s curiosity that informs his design solutions.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
theme-development10
wordpress10
css10
javascript10
lessc9
html9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alliswell/Less
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
A simple minimal WordPress theme built with only what is needed to survive
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on theming and user interface development for a WordPress theme. Their contributions included initial theme build with a CSS reset and basic styling, updates to comment styling, and the addition of a JavaScript library (FitVids) for responsive video embedding. Further contributions included structural changes to the header and post meta data.
wordpresswordpress-themenav
alliswell/min-theme
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 16 days
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