Will Urmston
Design Technologist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Urmston is a design technologist and senior frontend engineer with 11 years of experience building creative tools and consumer-facing design systems from prototype to production. Based in Seattle, he has led major feature launches at WeTransfer—driving a 340% signup surge for Paste 2.0’s layout system, delivering a $2M ARR Pay-to-Download flow, and tripling referrals via an accessible app-switcher component. He combines product-facing design sensibility with deep frontend craft: shipping editor frameworks, responsive component systems, and a mobile rewrite while improving type safety, test automation, and developer ergonomics. Now at Amazon working on design systems, he continues to bridge design and engineering to reduce infrastructure overhead and speed iteration. Collected projects show a penchant for rich interactions—3D experiences, WebRTC calls, and reactive sound design—revealing a creative technologist who thrives on the intersection of UX, animation, and scalable frontend architecture.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design
Github Skills (49)
hyperdrive10
browser9
beaker9
rich-text-editor8
react8
wysiwyg8
text-editor7
peer-to-peer7
prosemirror7
p2p7
html-components7
webrtc6
drag-and-drop6
typescript6
shadow6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willurmston/Tone.Editor
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
willurmston/urmston.website-holding
Jan 2019 - Oct 2024
Little portfolio site
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
react
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