Kjell Reigstad
Senior Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarKjell Reigstad is a Senior Staff Product Designer at Shopify with 11 years of experience shaping front-end experiences and product design at scale. Previously Design Director at Automattic, he led cross-functional product efforts and has a long track record of refining WordPress themes and the Gutenberg editor through hands-on CSS, template, and UI improvements. Based in Boston, he blends design leadership with practical front-end development skills—often shipping stylesheet and SVG fixes that materially improve editor usability. His open-source contributions to widely used projects like WordPress core themes and Gutenberg show a propensity for thoughtful, incremental improvements that benefit millions of users. Known for translating editorial and publishing needs into elegant, responsive interfaces, he brings both creative direction and technical craft to product teams. Colleagues would point to his rare combination of design sensibility and code-level attention as what makes his work stand out.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
editors10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
css10
wordpress10
responsive-design10
blocks10
editor10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
html10
theme-development10
blockly10
wp-theme10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/twentynineteen
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Twenty Nineteen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:501 commits, 262 PRs, 260 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kjell contributed to the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme by implementing and updating styles related to the block editor. Their commits involved adding a new editor stylesheet, adjusting font sizes, and incorporating specific CSS rules to enhance the visual appearance of the theme within the editor. They also made improvements to ensure the alignment of various blocks, including cover images and galleries, displayed correctly. Furthermore, the user implemented responsive design adjustments and updated CSS to ensure a consistent user experience on the frontend and backend.
report-towordpresswordpress-themereporttrac
WordPress/theme-experiments
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 95 reviews, 291 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kjell primarily focused on modifying and expanding upon block templates within the "Twenty Nineteen Blocks" theme, a project designed to experiment with themes built using blocks. Their contributions included changing the theme's name, expanding block styles to encompass header and footer elements, and modifying CSS and template files to structure and position post titles, content, and other elements. They also worked on integrating the post title, query loop, and content into the templates and incorporated a blog page that exclusively uses blocks.
themesexperimenting
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