Simon Heys
Founder And Chief Creative Officer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Heys is a founder and Chief Creative Officer with 13 years of hands-on experience blending product design and software engineering to build user-focused digital products. Based in London, he leads Make and Ship while running Studio Heys, pairing strategic creative direction with front-end engineering chops honed at organisations like Argent, The Guardian and The Times. He contributes to open-source projects such as the ArgentX StarkNet browser extension, where he shipped responsive UI improvements and notification flows, reflecting a knack for pragmatic UX-driven engineering. Simon’s career began in communication design (BA First, Kingston) and evolved into roles that straddle design leadership and shipping production software, making him comfortable from pixel-level styling to product strategy. Colleagues describe him as a creative technologist who favors measurable user impact over novelty, often translating complex blockchain UX needs into elegant, accessible interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) First Communication Design, BA (Hons) First Communication Design at Kingston University
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
styled-components10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
html9
css9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
argentlabs/argent-x
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
ArgentX browser extension for StarkNet - made with ❤️ by Argent
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:508 reviews, 430 commits, 395 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the ArgentX browser extension project. Their commits implemented an initial version of an extended view, including responsive margins. They also refactored components and applied several styling changes, including the addition of component styling to account for various screen sizes. Additionally, the user integrated a new component for creating and displaying notifications, and implemented a flow that incorporated a button for users to interact.
browserargent-xethereumwalletargent
simonheys/wordclock
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
An original digital art work for macOS, iOS and web
Contributions:2 releases, 90 commits, 267 PRs in 1 year 6 months
artdigital-artipadosiosmacos
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