Jeff Ong
Interactive Designer & Developer at off brand studio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Ong is an interactive designer and developer with 12 years of experience building responsive, accessible web experiences from New York. He blends front-end craftsmanship with product-minded design leadership, having led design teams at Automattic and shipped engineering work across agencies like frog and Barbarian. At Automattic he contributed to the Gutenberg block editor and official themes, improving accessibility, layout systems and responsive CSS—work that impacts millions of WordPress sites. As founder of off brand studio he’s delivered interactive projects for clients such as Estée Lauder and WeWork, connecting brand goals to pragmatic web implementations. Trained at NYU ITP and with a background in business from the University of Michigan, he combines creative prototyping with production-ready code. He’s equally at home tweaking CSS variables and ARIA labels as he is directing cross-disciplinary teams, often turning small accessibility fixes into broad UX improvements.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Money, BBA Money at University of MichiganInteractive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Computers, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Computers at New York University
Hebrew, Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
html10
wordpress10
css10
responsive-design10
wp-theme10
javascript10
media-queries10
front-end-development10
wordpress-themes10
gutenberg10
react10
css-variables10
ui-design9
php9
accessibility9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/theme-experiments
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 75 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the development of a WordPress theme, focusing on block templates and styles. Their work included modifying CSS for layout and styling, particularly for the header and footer sections. Additionally, they integrated and modified HTML template parts for the theme, replacing placeholder images and content and reconfiguring navigation menus.
themesexperimenting
Automattic/themes
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:694 reviews, 484 commits, 568 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the development of the "seedlet" theme by implementing and modifying CSS styles, and classes to improve responsiveness and layout. Their work focused on creating responsive styles using CSS variables and media queries. They also made changes to JavaScript and used functions like esc_attr and esc_html to ensure the theme meets WordPress coding standards.
wordpresswordpress-themeautomatticwordpress-themesthemes
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