Jon Bell
Principal Product Designer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Bell is a principal product designer and founder with over two decades of experience building resilient, user-focused products—from leading first responsive versions of Microsoft Office and Windows Phone apps to fighting disinformation at Twitter and founding Arbiter to teach media literacy. He blends hands-on design and design ops with team-building and mentorship, having led app teams, launched a design bootcamp, run a conference, and published essays on design. Jon pairs product craftsmanship (notable front-end contributions to Replay.io DevTools) with a bias for worst-case user scenarios—optimising for low bandwidth, older devices, and accessibility. Based in Wellington, he moves comfortably between startup 0→1 roles and scaling product teams at larger organisations, and outside work he channels creativity into collaborative internet art and trampoline time with his three children.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Design, Master of Design at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (8)
css10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
javascript9
html9
tailwindcss7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
replayio/devtools
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Replay.io DevTools
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:296 reviews, 301 commits, 1059 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions primarily focused on front-end development within the Replay.io DevTools repository. They implemented and styled numerous UI components, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Key areas of work included theming and color standardization, modifications to existing UI elements and code, and updates for improved visual consistency and better user experience. They also added functionality to existing components.
devtoolsreactreplay
jonbell-lot23/academia
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:181 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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