Tammie Lister
Senior Product Designer at Freelance
Kettering, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTammie Lister is a senior product designer and open source design leader with 17 years’ experience blending psychology, code, art and UX to craft human-centered digital products. She played a central role in WordPress’s open source ecosystem for over a decade, leading multiple releases and driving the major Gutenberg editor redesign, with hands-on front-end contributions to themes and editor blocks. Based in Kettering, England, she pairs strategic design leadership with practical front-end skills—having styled starter themes, refined block UI, and improved accessibility and consistency across components. Tammie also coaches and consults, helping teams build sustainable communities and healthier design practices. Her background as a founder and early multimedia/web practitioner gives her a rare mix of product intuition and implementation fluency.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
html10
theme-development10
wordpress10
css10
sass10
javascript10
front-end-development10
theming10
gutenberg10
react10
user-experience9
ui-design9
exp9
accessibility7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/_s
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 73 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tammie primarily focused on modifying the `style.css` file of the WordPress theme. Their contributions involved adding sections, fixing spelling errors, and adding specific classes for navigation elements. They also reverted a spacing change and made initial commits for the `_sass` directory, indicating involvement in the theming structure. The work focuses on structure, styling, and component adjustments within the project's front-end framework.
wordpresswordpress-themeturningunderscoresstarter-theme
WordPress/gutenberg-starter-theme
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
A simple theme for testing Gutenberg.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 37 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tammie primarily focused on building a starter theme for Gutenberg, a WordPress editor. Their contributions included initial theme setup with a style.css file that included normalizing styles, typography, and basic elements. They added support for wide images and color options, along with the site title, description, and menus. The user also styled and fixed a range of blocks, and updated the theme to be Gutenberg-specific.
wordpresstestinggutenbergsimple-themewordpress-plugin
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