Val Head
Principal Designer at Design Tokens W3C Community Group
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarVal Head is a Principal Designer at Adobe with 13 years of experience shaping interface motion and design systems, and the author of Designing Interface… She blends hands-on animation engineering—CSS, SVG, JavaScript, GreenSock, Framer—with advocacy and education, having taught workshops and led conferences like Web Design Day. At Adobe she transitioned from Senior Staff Design Evangelist to Principal Designer while co-chairing the W3C Design Tokens Community Group, driving standards for consistent design language across products. Val’s background as a consultant and founder gives her a practical knack for making motion both brand-forward and developer-friendly, bridging creative direction with implementation. Based in Pittsburgh, she’s known for translating complex interaction problems into pragmatic motion systems that scale across teams.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
specification9
design-tokens9
css8
chrome-extension6
chrome6
spectrum5
browser5
remedy5
photoshop4
technical-debt4
adobe3
after-effects2
caniuse2
django1
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInLearning/css-animation-2882049
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
CSS: Animation
Contributions:54 commits in 3 months
valhead/css-motion-design-workshop
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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