Kaitlin Brooks
Principal Product Designer at Atlassian
Napa, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaitlin Brooks is a Principal Product Designer with seven years of experience building visual, UX, and design systems, currently shaping Atlassian’s design system from Napa, CA. She has led design system strategy and visual identity work for developer tools at Microsoft, including VS Code and Visual Studio, blending product-facing UI work with marketing and brand systems. Known for marrying function and beauty, Kaitlin focuses on pragmatic systems that scale and make teammates’ lives easier. She’s equally comfortable coaching teams as managing cross-discipline design efforts, having grown from UX roles to senior leadership. Her background at Carnegie Mellon and early work on educational and client-driven projects informs a thoughtful, user-centered approach. Outside of product work she brings a rare mix of hands-on visual craft and systems thinking that keeps complex developer experiences coherent and usable.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Communication Design at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (34)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
writers10
visual-studio10
vscode10
dotnet9
intellisense9
pylint9
python-extension9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/brand
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
This repo serves as a guide and reference to designers, writers, and developers to create consistent, on-brand content for .NET.
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
dotnetwritersconsistentservesbrand
microsoft/VisualStudioSwag
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Digital swag for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
microsoft-visual-studiomicrosoftextensibilityswagvisualstudio
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