Morgan Nichols
UX Designer at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMorgan Nichols is a UX designer and design technologist based in Seattle with 11 years of experience bridging front-end engineering and product design at companies like AWS, Cooliris, and Amobee. At AWS they moved from building customer-facing web interfaces into creating a new enterprise console from the ground up, combining deep UX craft with practical engineering instincts. Morgan codes to prototype and communicate designs, contributing front-end work to notable open-source projects such as the Mastodon homepage where they improved responsiveness and image loading. Comfortable shipping production UI and iterating from user feedback, they excel at turning complex workflows into clear, usable interfaces. Their background in computer science and long history of front-end engineering gives them a pragmatic, systems-aware approach to design that favors measurable user impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Information Technology (Double Major), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Information Technology (Double Major) at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Github Skills (8)
css10
javascript10
react10
html9
responsive-design9
mastodon8
webpacker7
webpack7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/joinmastodon
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
The official Mastodon project homepage
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Morgan primarily focused on developing the front-end of the Mastodon homepage. Their contributions included moving images into an assets directory and updating image loading, refactoring the layout for responsiveness, adding a dummy feature list, and incorporating images for the user interface. They also updated the navigation links and incorporated content tweaks based on user feedback.
mastodonmastodon-api
postfurry/postfurry.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 1 month
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