Melissa Perreault
Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Perreault is a Staff Product Designer based in Laval, Quebec with four years of professional experience shaping user-facing products at Shopify. She blends visual artistry—she’s maintained a parallel career as a painter—with pragmatic front-end contributions, having improved UI components and theming for Shopify’s prominent open-source Dawn storefront. At Shopify she focuses on refining announcement bars, footers, product pages, color systems and translations to elevate content presentation and performance. Melissa’s background includes multidisciplinary studies across Québec universities and technical training from Collège Ahuntsic, reflecting a mix of creative and structured design thinking. Comfortable contributing directly to codebases, she brings a designer’s eye to implementation details and a maker’s discipline to cross-functional collaboration. This combination of artistic practice and hands-on front-end work helps her craft interfaces that are both expressive and usable.
4 years of coding experience
Université LavalCertificat, Certificat at Université de MontréalDEC, DEC at Collège AhuntsicCertificat, Certificat at Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (14)
theme-development10
liquid10
shopify10
translate9
translation-editor9
translation9
manage9
ui-design8
user-interface8
interface-design8
accessibility6
javascript5
html5
css5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/dawn
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:666 reviews, 45 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily contributed to the Shopify Dawn theme's user interface and content. Their work includes updating settings, adjusting color schemes, modifying icons, and updating translation files. They focused on refining UI components, such as announcement bars, footers, and product pages, as well as improving the theme's overall visual appearance and content presentation. They also made changes to the application's visual and content presentation.
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
respiro-ecommerce/dawn-famme
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year
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