Ron Severdia
Product Designer at Optimizely, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRon Severdia is a Product Designer with 16 years of experience based in San Francisco, blending pragmatic UX problem solving with hands-on front-end craftsmanship. He began his design journey with a mission to simplify complex interfaces—like airplane cockpits—into intuitive experiences, and that ethos shows in his detailed CSS and template work on open-source projects such as the widely used Kunena forum. An author and self-described Shakespeare nerd, Ron brings storytelling and clarity to product decisions, translating technical constraints into elegant visual systems. He excels at improving UI fidelity and layout consistency, pairing design thinking with practical implementation to move ideas from concept to polished, user-facing reality.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
css10
user-interface10
templater10
template-engine10
ui-design10
interface-design10
front-end-development8
html5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kunena/Kunena-Forum
Aug 2009 - May 2011
Kunena Forum - Forum / Bulletin Board / Discussions component for Joomla - This is the 6.x/5.x main development branch. Please do not open issues regarding earlier versions of Kunena
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:220 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ron's primary contributions revolve around updating the CSS styles and restructuring template files within the Kunena forum. These changes involved migrating and updating various CSS files, particularly `default.css`, to align with the BlueEagle template. This suggests a focus on the visual presentation and user interface, including adjusting button styles, pagination, and overall layout to improve the user experience and align with the template design.
joomla-extensionsbulletin-boardbulletinjoomla-componentforum
severdia/PlayShakespeare.com-XML
Nov 2011 - Jan 2022
Contributions:109 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 10 years 3 months
xmlshakespeareeditions
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