Matt West
Design at Elara Travel
Rugby, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatt West is a product and UX designer with 15+ years crafting interfaces and experiences for software products, currently leading design at Elara Travel after senior roles at Automattic, Emitwise and Wildbit. He pairs hands-on front-end development experience—contributing UI and navigation improvements to open-source projects like the astrum pattern library and full-stack work on Simple Invoices—with product leadership across hosting and developer tooling (notably WordPress.com’s hosting dashboard and Studio). Comfortable moving between agency, startup and in-house environments, he’s shipped climate-tech UX, new-product design systems, and developer-facing tools. Collected experience in both design and code lets him drive pragmatic, implementable solutions rather than speculative wireframes. Based in Rugby, UK, he combines a broad toolkit in UI, prototyping and frontend engineering with a habit of improving developer-facing documentation and component libraries.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
T173: Design, T173: Design at The Open UniversityEconomics and Business, Geography and Applied ICT, Economics and Business, Geography and Applied ICT at Guilsborough Sixth Form
English
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
markdown10
php10
javascript10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
vue10
back-end-development10
mysql10
vue-jsx10
jquery9
database-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NoDivide/astrum
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
A lightweight pattern library designed to be included with any web project.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the pattern library. They implemented dynamic loading for various font libraries like Typekit, Google Fonts, and Typography.com. The user also set up component loading, integrated markdown parsing for descriptions, and implemented a navigation system to enhance the user experience, specifically improving the navigation and display of components. Additionally, the user refactored the code and made changes to the CSS.
cssjavascriptweb-projectpattern-librarypattern
simpleinvoices/simpleinvoices
Jul 2010 - Sep 2013
Making invoicing rock since '05.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 3 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Simple Invoices project by implementing several front-end and back-end features. They improved the user interface by adding print preview functionality to payments and invoices, and also enhanced the visual appearance with rounded corners on the login screen. Furthermore, the user added back-end functionality by integrating a real invoice statement filter with supporting export and email capabilities. The user also worked on dashboard updates.
rockinvoicing
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