Selene Hinkley
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarSelene Hinkley is a Staff Content Designer based in Nanaimo, BC with 11 years in UX and eight years specializing in design systems, bringing a decade of hands-on experience shaping product experiences. She focuses on clear, maintainable documentation and UI content for design systems—most recently contributing to Shopify’s widely used Polaris project, improving navigation, pattern docs, and cross-site copy. Selene blends editorial rigor with UI sensibility to make component libraries more discoverable and usable for designers and engineers alike. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex design constraints into practical content patterns that scale across teams.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Shopify/polaris
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
UI Designer & Technical Writer
UI Designer & Technical WriterContributions:31 reviews, 52 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Selene primarily focuses on updating and maintaining documentation and content related to the Polaris design system. Their contributions include updating the "Working with Polaris" page, adding new badge pattern documentation, and removing the homecards page, along with copy edits across multiple pages. They also made changes to the navigation items. This suggests a focus on content organization, documentation accuracy, and user interface elements.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
weegrom/polaris-icons
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
A cohesive collection of icons that we use across the Shopify platform.
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
octiconssvgrcohesivepolarisadobe-xd
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