Nigel Breslaw
Design Engineer at Slint
Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNigel Breslaw is a design-focused software engineer with 25 years of commercial experience and over a decade of hands-on product development, currently shaping cross-platform UI tooling at Slint. He blends deep UX and interaction-design expertise from long tenure at Nokia with modern front-end engineering, specializing in accessible, motion-rich interfaces and delightful micro-interactions. Comfortable in small agile teams, Nigel prefers coding to meetings and has a track record of shipping apps used by millions as well as refining open-source UI demos like the Slint printerdemo. Based in Oulu, he brings a pragmatic, human-centered approach to embedded, mobile and desktop UX—often smoothing the handoff between design intent and production-grade implementation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
East Barnet School
Github Skills (7)
user-interface10
toolkits10
rust10
windows-gui10
ui-design10
javascript7
cpp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slint-ui/slint
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 351 PRs, 516 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the "printerdemo" application within the Slint UI toolkit. They implemented visual improvements, including subtle page change animations and adjustments to sidebar button behavior and appearance. Additionally, they refactored the color palette and simplified the home page layout, making the application more user-friendly and maintainable. The user's contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of UI design and implementation using the Slint framework.
cppdesktop-applicationsrustjavascriptfluid
NigelBreslaw/ishtar-bugs
Jan 2016 - Mar 2023
Public bug tracking for Ishtar Commander for iOS and Android
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
react-nativeishtarandroidbug-trackingtracking
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