Jesse Gardner
Director Of User Research at Plasticmind Design
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorJesse Gardner is a Director of User Research and seasoned web designer-engineer with 25 years working at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. He builds cross-functional teams and design systems that scale — currently standing up user research to improve usability and accessibility across New York State’s 1000+ digital services. Jesse has led product and platform efforts at media and consumer brands (Fox, AMC, Simply Recipes) and founded a studio that delivered high-profile site and brand work while doing hands-on front-end engineering. He blends data-driven user testing, performance-minded engineering, and practical design strategy to turn complex workflows into measurable improvements. Known for translating stakeholder needs into technical solutions, he brings both startup agility and enterprise process to large, distributed systems. An early web practitioner since 1995, he still writes and experiments on how engineering and design teams can collaborate more effectively.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
111reputation
138reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (35)
redux9
static-site9
web-components8
wordpress-plugin8
wordpress8
design-tokens8
amazon7
amazon-s37
mod-rewrite6
aws-s35
mobile5
aws5
backup5
javascript4
minecraft4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
plasticmind/S3-Site-Backups
Mar 2012 - Dec 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 9 months
amazonarchiveamazon-s3databaseaws-s3
plasticmind/thoughtful-gardner-plugin
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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