Mel Choyce-dwan
Expert Consultant at Federal Student Aid an Office of the U.S. Department of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMel Choyce-dwan is an expert consultant and product designer with 13 years of experience modernizing digital platforms across government, open source, and private sectors from Philadelphia. She combines deep UX/UI practice, user research, and accessibility leadership to launch high-impact projects—like designing the American Climate Corps site that connected 20,000 users and rebuilding the 9th Circuit Courts’ digital presence. A former Automattic senior designer who co-led major WordPress theme releases, she contributes front-end improvements to the widely used WordPress Dashicons project and mentors community contributors. Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex stakeholder environments, she’s advised technology modernization efforts that secured long-term funding and simplified processes for hundreds of thousands of users. Passionate about democratizing technology, Mel pairs tactical UI craftsmanship with strategic research and design system thinking to deliver inclusive, scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Government, Arts & Technology, East Asian Studies, Undergraduate, Government, Arts & Technology, East Asian Studies at Smith College
Github Skills (3)
html10
front-end-development10
css10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/dashicons
Apr 2013 - Mar 2016
Dashicons, the WordPress admin icon font. For the official resource, please see the WordPress Developer Hub.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:102 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Mel's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the user interface of the Dashicons project. They focused on updating the visual representation of icons, implementing new icons for improved functionality, and refactoring icon classes. Their work involved modifying the project's CSS and HTML files to integrate and organize the icon set effectively. Furthermore, they addressed potential issues with cross-browser compatibility.
wordpresswordpress-admin
melchoyce/twentyseventeen
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 32 branches in 14 days
meetwordpresswordpress-themedefault-theme
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