Kim Nguyen
Staff Interaction Designer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Nguyen is a Staff Interaction Designer at Google with 14 years of experience crafting thoughtful, research-driven experiences for web and mobile. She blends a deep understanding of human psychology with visual craft to simplify complex interactions, emphasizing observation, curiosity, and fearless thinking. At Omeka she contributed front-end and back-end improvements to museum and library publishing platforms, improving admin accessibility and responsive layouts for scholarly collections. Known for leading collaborative workshops and prototyping end-to-end flows, she translates user needs into elegant, functional systems rather than mere aesthetics. Based in New York, she draws on a BFA in Graphic Design and international study to inform a multidisciplinary approach to product and brand. Colleagues describe her as a persistent student of design who purposefully reduces and clarifies to make interfaces feel intuitive.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design at Salisbury UniversityStudy Abroad Program, Art & Design, Senior, Study Abroad Program, Art & Design, Senior at Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici
Vietnamese, American Sign Language, italian (intermediate), spanish (intermediate)
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
cms10
php10
javascript10
layout10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
omeka/omeka-s
Oct 2014 - Dec 2022
Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 932 commits, 58 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kim's commits focused on implementing and fixing features within the Omeka S web publication system, specifically in the global JavaScript file and CSS styles. They implemented functionality to detect the blur event for textarea and select elements and improved the layout of media fields. The user also made code modifications to update tablesaw styles and remove CKeditor styles.
cmslinked-dataconsistsomekaphp
omeka/Omeka
Feb 2012 - Jan 2023
A flexible web publishing platform for the display of library, museum and scholarly collections, archives and exhibitions.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 557 commits, 15 PRs in 11 years
Contributions summary:Kim focused on enhancing the admin theme for the Omeka platform. They created a branch for the 2.0 admin theme, implemented one-click theme switch buttons, and adjusted the layout of the edit item form, also adding styling to the add new action, and general styles for various sections in the admin panel. They also implemented enhancements to the table layout to improve accessibility and responsiveness for mobile devices.
publishingopen-accessexhibitionspublishing-platformscholarly
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