Marcin Wichary
Design Architect at Figma
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcin Wichary is a Design Architect with 13 years of experience blending product design and front-end engineering, currently shaping the future of Figma’s platform and editor. He progressed through roles from designer and manager to director, bringing deep expertise in typography, auto-layout, editor UX and developer tooling. Marcin’s background includes senior design work at Google and typographic leadership at Medium, and he contributes front-end improvements to notable open-source projects like the Click That ‘Hood game and the Kite VS Code plugin. Comfortable moving between pixels and code, he’s known for fixing tricky UI/UX edge cases and refactoring styles for clearer, more resilient interfaces. Based in Chicago, he pairs doctoral-level HCI training with pragmatic product instincts to solve complex interaction problems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
master’s Computer Science, master’s Computer Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecindoctoral Human-Computer Interaction, doctoral Human-Computer Interaction at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven + Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-design10
lessc9
visual-studio-code9
gui-testing8
map-box8
web-testing8
testing8
usertesting8
mapbox-gl8
ui-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codeforgermany/click_that_hood
Feb 2013 - Feb 2016
A game where users must identify a city's neighborhoods as fast as possible
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:518 commits, 15 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Marcin primarily contributed to the front-end development of a game that allows users to identify city neighborhoods quickly. Their work focused on improving the user interface by fixing broken links, updating the layout with a focus on better positioning, and correcting tooltip behavior. They also refactored and refocused on optimizing the visuals by correcting CSS styles.
pythongameneighborhoodspython3identify
kiteco/vscode-plugin
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Kite Autocomplete Plugin for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcin primarily focused on front-end development within the Kite Autocomplete Plugin for Visual Studio Code. Their contributions include modifying the UI, addressing bugs, and making enhancements to the user interface. Specifically, the user changed links, refactored UI components, and addressed test failures related to the front-end elements. Furthermore, the user focused on styling and structure of the error rescue panel.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionkiteautocomplete
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