Peter Müller
Senior UX Designer (Level 5) at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Müller is a Senior UX Designer with 11 years’ experience who has shaped developer tooling at scale as the first full-time UX hire on Chrome DevTools. Based in Munich, he led the modernization of a 17-year-old DevTools UI into a component-based design system and launched AI-driven tooling reaching over 20M users, contributing to an 89% satisfaction rating. His hands-on work on the famous ChromeDevTools frontend includes UI improvements like SVG icon migrations and higher-contrast syntax highlighting that materially improved clarity for developers. With a background in communication design and a BSc in Computer Science, he blends visual craft with engineering fluency to bring pragmatic, developer-centered UX to complex interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at FernUniversität in HagenDiploma, Communication Design, Diploma, Communication Design at Rhein-Sieg-Academy for Art and Design
English, German
Github Skills (6)
css10
javascript10
ui-design10
chrome10
devtools10
svg9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on UI development within the Chrome DevTools frontend, implementing and modifying visual elements. Their work involved adding and replacing icons used throughout the DevTools interface, specifically related to features like COEP/COOP integration, source panels, and feedback mechanisms. The user also updated the CSS to increase the contrast of pseudo-element syntax highlighting, enhancing the visual clarity of the interface. Additionally, the user replaced PNG icons with SVGs.
chromedevtoolschrome-devtoolsjavascriptinstrumentation
petermllrr/smolspaceprogram.com
Feb 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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