Matt Smith
Founder at Shift Nudge
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Smith is a founder and design director with over a decade of experience crafting pixel-perfect interfaces and leading creative teams for global clients. As owner of Studio MDS since 2006 and founder of Shift Nudge, he blends hands-on interface design with mentorship—teaching at UGA, guest lecturing at Harvard, and leading workshops at major conferences. He created the influential Float Label input pattern adopted by companies like Google and Apple, and co-built Contrast, a macOS app used by thousands to improve WCAG color contrast for accessibility. Creator of Flowkit, a Figma plugin with 25,000+ users, he bridges practical tooling and product design workflows. Comfortable presenting to executive audiences, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a deep, design-first engineering sensibility summarized simply as “designing code.” Based in Athens, GA, he’s focused on equipping a new generation of interface designers to build the next wave of thoughtful digital products.
12 years of coding experience
University of GeorgiaEast Georgia State College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
paragraphs10
readable9
sketch8
edges8
nodejs4
javascript3
codebase3
desktop3
electron2
contrast2
npm1
ghost-blog1
ghost1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mds/material-shadows
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
mds/usecontrast
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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