Nicholas Pappas
Staff UI UX Product Designer at Cribl
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Pappas is a Staff UI/UX Product Designer in Seattle with over 20 years of experience marrying usability research, engineering, and product strategy for professional and enterprise systems. He specializes in high-stakes, operator-focused interfaces—driving situational awareness and safety across hardware, CLI, API, and GUI contexts while prioritizing inclusive design and accessibility. Nicholas has led and built design systems (Fleet, Emerald) and steered cross-functional teams at scale, reducing production time and improving consistency across complex product portfolios. His background in cognitive systems engineering and hands-on front-end development lets him translate rigorous human factors research into reusable components and production-ready prototypes. He is equally comfortable mentoring designers and writing JavaScript/HTML/SCSS for design-system components, a rare blend that keeps design decisions technically grounded. Colleagues rely on him as a pragmatic advocate for users in siloed organizations, especially where reliability and predictability matter more than flash.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlors, Computer Science, Bachlors, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMasters, Cognitive Systems Engineering, Masters, Cognitive Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github contributions (5)
nwpappas/Fizbin.Kinect.Gestures
Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 3 months
nwpappas/overlayfactsheet
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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