Tayler Aitken
Product Design Manager at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTayler Aitken is a Product Design Manager based in San Francisco with 9 years of experience shaping user experiences at scale, currently leading product design at Stripe after several years as a senior product designer there. Trained as a Summa Cum Laude BFA graphic designer, Tayler blends strong visual craft with practical UX systems experience from work on IBM’s Carbon Design System, where they also built coded prototypes and maintained design assets. They bring a track record of mentoring and program leadership—having served as Associate Incubator Lead for IBM’s Design Bootcamp and mentored Maelstrom interns—combined with hands-on delivery across startups, agencies, and enterprise teams. Known for translating research into reusable components and clear design-system documentation, Tayler is comfortable collaborating in GitHub-driven, agile environments and pairing design sensibility with developer-facing artifacts.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design, Summa Cum Laude at Savannah College of Art and DesignWest Potomac High School
Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (22)
ux-design10
javascript10
figma10
carbon-design-system10
grids10
adobe-xd10
sketch10
react10
design-tokens9
ui-toolkit9
svg9
ui-design7
zeplin5
react-components5
catalog4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-contribution
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Documentation on how to contribute back to Carbon
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 1 day
tay-aitken/carbon-design-kit
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
A versioned, comprehensive kit of the Carbon Design System visual assets (components, iconography, color palettes, grids, templates).
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 months
versionedgridscarbon-design-systemdesign-systemassets
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