Ryan Smith
Digital Experience Architect at Full Compass Systems
Columbus, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Smith is a Digital Experience Architect and seasoned UX designer/front-end engineer with over two decades shaping usable, accessible digital products and 11 years of focused professional experience across enterprise and agency settings. He combines human-centered design, accessibility advocacy, and typographic sensitivity to deliver consistent, performant experiences across web, mobile, and social platforms. At Full Compass he bridges marketing goals and engineering constraints to produce pragmatic solutions that scale, drawing on prior roles at Trek, Diesel Forward, Acumium and others. Ryan pairs hands-on front-end craftsmanship (including Drupal and Ruby on Rails familiarity) with strategic UX leadership, often serving as the liaison between stakeholders and development teams. Outside work he’s a Wisconsin-based maker and outdoorsman—woodworker, fisherman and audiophile—which informs his detail-oriented, tactile approach to design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree-Fine Arts-Graphic Design, Multimedia Communication, Bachelor's Degree-Fine Arts-Graphic Design, Multimedia Communication at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeRuby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at Madison Area Technical CollegeHS Diploma, General Studies, HS Diploma, General Studies at Antioch Community High School
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Github Skills (74)
end-to-end-encryption10
pgp10
docker-desktop10
chat10
svg10
mjml10
responsive-email10
keybase10
user-experience10
accessibility10
eleventy10
css10
gulp9
partials9
handlebars-helpers9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
webuxr/webuxr-oct
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A customized instance of the OctoberCMS used as a PoC for the WebUXr group of sites.
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
octobercms
webuxr/a11y
Jan 2017 - Jun 2019
Making #A11Y tips and tricks easier to digest and leveraging the community into the cloud.
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 4 months
leveraginga11ycloudtrickstips-and-tricks
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