Joe Thomas
Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Thomas is a Staff Product Designer based in Minneapolis with eight years of experience building and scaling enterprise design systems for major retailers and platforms. He led Design Systems efforts at Target and U.S. Bank before shaping Polaris at Shopify and now drives product design at Shopify at a staff level. Joe combines a graphic-design foundation with practical marketing sensibilities to translate brand and business needs into reusable UI systems and developer-friendly components. Known for thoughtful systems thinking and a pragmatic hands-on approach, he often pairs design work with strategic advocacy to align cross-functional teams. Outside work he’s as likely to be iterating on a design token as he is cheering for the Minnesota Timberwolves—often with a coffee in hand.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Minnesota State University, MankatoMarketing, Marketing at St. Cloud State University
English
Github Skills (12)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react10
shopify10
mailchimp3
sketch-app3
sketch-plugin3
addon2
statamic2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
heyjoethomas/personal-site
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
heyjoethomas/joethomasdesign
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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