Josh Osborne
Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Osborne is a Staff Product Designer with over a decade building products, design systems, and teams across media and commerce. He progressed from hands-on product and design technologist roles at NPR—where he led design operations and bridged design with engineering—to design engineering positions and now a leadership role at Shopify. Josh combines systems thinking with practical implementation, specializing in scalable component libraries and operational workflows that keep multidisciplinary teams aligned. Based in Grand Rapids, he pairs a creative background in recording arts with product design, which informs a strong sense for user experience and storytelling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex product needs into pragmatic design systems that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Recording Arts, Bachelor of Science - BS, Recording Arts at Full Sail University
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Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tinychime/fivegoodthings
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 63 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 6 months
tinychime/joeletchford
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 4 months
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