Matthew Tyas
Head Of Design at Co-op
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Tyas is Head of Design at Co-op with 13 years of experience leading digital product and UX teams and a track record of progressing from front-end developer to strategic design leadership. He founded Manchester's Finest and runs it alongside his Co-op role, blending entrepreneurial product delivery with large-organisational design systems work. At Co-op he rose from Principal Designer to Head of Design, overseeing cross-disciplinary teams and shipping customer-focused, accessible interfaces at scale. Early career wins include building one of the UK’s first university grant-application platforms at Leeds, showing a knack for turning complex requirements into usable systems. Based in Stockport, he combines hands-on prototyping and front-end craft with people leadership and a community-minded approach to design.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies; Art & Deign, BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies; Art & Deign at Greenhead CollegeA; A; A; B Levels; English Language; Psychology; General Studies, A; A; A; B Levels; English Language; Psychology; General Studies at Art & DesignDesign & Art Direction Graphic / Web Design, Design & Art Direction Graphic / Web Design at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (28)
styles9
css9
static-assets9
mono9
react8
prototyping8
heroku7
prototypes7
frontend6
refresh6
jquery6
design-tokens6
swap6
html-components5
location5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coopdigital/design-manual
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
The Co-op design system
Contributions:5 PRs, 138 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
design-systemsreactco-opdesign-system
coopdigital/design-system
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:114 commits, 8 PRs, 100 pushes in 11 months
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