Laura Hilliger
Director & Founding Member at We Are Open Co-op
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Hilliger is a multidisciplinary director, open strategist, and educator with 14 years of experience designing participatory learning programs, community-first digital products, and open governance models. As a founding member of We Are Open Co-op and a concept architect at Greenpeace, she blends hands-on product design and front-end work (notably improving Mozilla’s Appmaker tutorial UX) with organizational change to scale openness across global campaigns and teams. Her background in media, curriculum design, and agile practice has driven modular educational frameworks at Mozilla and practical workshops that teach web literacy and leadership. Based in Dresden with an MA in Media and Education, she’s equally at home prototyping interfaces, leading strategy, and coaching communities to work transparently and creatively.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Digital Design, BA, Digital Design at California State University - East BayVisual Communications, Visual Communications at Pratt InstituteMA, Medien und Bildung (Media and Education), MA, Medien und Bildung (Media and Education) at Universität Rostock
English, German
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
interface-design9
web-development9
user-interface9
lessc8
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-appmaker/appmaker
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Appmaker was an exploration in making app authoring available to non-developers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Laura primarily focused on improving the user interface and tutorial experience within the Appmaker project. They made several modifications to the tutorial files (intro.ejs, tutorial.css, tutorial.less), adding styling, including font weights and adding Open Sans font. In addition, the user added content to the tutorial, including an HTML file that would guide users with app pages activity. These changes indicate a focus on user-facing aspects of the app.
reactauthoring
mozilla/school-of-webmaking
Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:316 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 7 months
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