Nichlas Andersen
Designer at Raycast
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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RockstarNichlas Andersen is a Oslo-based designer and front-end developer with a decade of experience crafting polished UI and product experiences. He blends visual design sensibilities with hands-on front-end work, contributing to notable open-source projects like TinaCMS and the Forestry.io website where he implemented responsive components, tooltips, and refined form and sidebar interactions. At Raycast he continues to shape product-facing design, while running his own creative technologist practice since 2016, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative alongside team work. His background spans agency-level art direction to product design, giving him a practical edge in translating brand and UX goals into implementable front-end solutions. Colleagues appreciate that he moves fluidly between pixels and CSS commits, often shipping visual improvements that also solve interaction and accessibility needs.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
cms10
hugo10
css10
responsive-design10
typescript10
styled-components10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
jamstack9
nextjs8
markdown7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
forestryio/forestry.io
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Forestry.io website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nichlas primarily focused on front-end development tasks, as evidenced by the CSS changes across multiple commits. They implemented an info icon and tooltip on the pricing page and styled various visual elements, including buttons, the paginator, and the header. Further contributions included the implementation of a responsive slide-in-cta and replacing logos, indicating involvement in the website's UI and visual design.
cmsforestryhugojamstack
tinacms/tinacms
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
TinaCMS is the leading open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing. Your content is stored in your own GitHub repo 🦙 ❤️
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Nichlas primarily contributed to the front-end development of the TinaCMS project, focusing on UI enhancements and component styling. They implemented changes to the sidebar, including adding a logo, site name, and actions toggle. The user also modified and styled input fields, text areas, and the overall form layout for a more refined user experience. Additionally, the user added a new toggle component.
headless-cmsmarkdowntinacmscmsnextjs
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