Tylan Davis
Product Designer at Figma
Draper, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolTylan Davis is a product designer and developer with four years of experience blending visual design and full-stack engineering to build polished, user-focused tools. Currently at Figma, Tylan previously helped grow Payload as a Designer/Software Engineer, contributing UI enhancements, feature work, and bug fixes to the open-source Payload CMS admin panel used with Next.js and TypeScript. Their background spans graphic and interactive design roles, giving them a strong foundation in visual systems, prototyping, and web UX. Based in Draper, Utah, Tylan pairs design sensibility with hands-on coding—often tackling component-level UX problems like versioning, array actions, modals, and upload handling—to ship practical, developer-friendly interfaces.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design at Kendall College of Art and Design
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Github Skills (22)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
uid10
content-management10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
css9
sass9
front-end-development9
graphql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
payloadcms/payload
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 45 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tylan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Payload CMS admin panel, addressing bug fixes, and introducing new features. Their contributions included modifying UI components, particularly those related to versioning, array actions, and modals. They also made stylistic adjustments to improve the admin panel's appearance, responsiveness, and user experience, as well as fixing bugs relating to handling of upload fields.
cmspayloadcmsexpressreact-jsdashboard
tylandavis/tylandavis
Apr 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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