Jason Zimdars
Principal Designer at Order of Malta
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Zimdars is a Principal Product Designer with 14+ years at 37signals, shaping the UX of Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE since 2009 and rising from Senior Designer to Principal. He blends product-focused interface design with illustration—authoring the workplace book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work and the Prince Martin Epic series—bringing narrative-driven visuals into product work. Jason has hands-on front-end experience contributing to high-profile open-source sites like ruby-lang.org, improving layout and mobile styles to enhance accessibility and responsiveness. Based in Edmond, Oklahoma, he pairs a BFA in Design and Visual Communications with leadership roles in the Order of Malta, reflecting a civic-minded approach to design and communication.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
jekyll9
ruby8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/www.ruby-lang.org
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Source of the https://www.ruby-lang.org website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the front-end design and styling of the Ruby website. Their work involved significant modifications to the `main.css` and `mobile.css` stylesheets, encompassing general layout, page header, footer, and mobile-specific UI adjustments. They also addressed styling issues, implemented multi-page navigation, and ensured form elements conformed to the site's overall design, enhancing the user experience.
herokulangrubyjekyllruby-lang
jzimdars/scss-lint
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Configurable tool for writing clean, consistent SCSS
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
lintersassconfigurablelintcss
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