Patrick Kidney
Senior Product Designer at Owner.com
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPatrick Kidney is a Senior Product Designer based in Vancouver with six years of hands-on experience shaping commerce and SaaS experiences at companies including Shopify, Noibu, and Owner.com. He blends industrial and product design training from Carleton University with digital product practice, bringing a strong sense of craft and systems thinking to UX and visual design. At Shopify he progressed from intern to senior designer, shipping features for high-growth merchant platforms and learning to design for scale and operational constraints. More recently he applied that experience to e-commerce recovery and owner-focused product work, demonstrating an ability to move between merchant-facing interfaces and internal tooling. Patrick’s background in industrial design and early architecture-inspired internships gives him a practical, prototype-oriented approach that surfaces elegant, buildable solutions. He is known for turning complex product requirements into clear, usable flows while balancing aesthetics with measurable business impact.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Industrial Design Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Industrial Design Industrial and Product Design at Carleton UniversityOntario Secondary School Diploma Visual Arts Program, Ontario Secondary School Diploma Visual Arts Program at Canterbury High School
English, French
Github Skills (9)
react9
vscode-extension9
design-tokens9
component-library9
typescript8
figma-plugin8
shopify8
svgr2
polaris1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Shopify/polaris-icons
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
A cohesive collection of icons that we use across the Shopify platform.
Contributions:3 comments in 2 months
svgrcohesivepolarisiconsshopify
Shopify/polaris
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
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