I’m Matt, a designer web designer front-end developer front-end designer UI/UX developer gf!bf&uh!jk@hj&3&h*
Let’s just go with “designer.”
I’m a specialized generalist who does a lot of designing through code. With a background ranging from print design to user experience to front-end development, I now spend most of my time creating digital interfaces and online publications.
I’m currently a Senior Designer at GitHub, where I’m part of a small team that designs, builds, and maintains the public web presence of the world’s largest open source platform. I was previously Design Lead of Release Team at Upstatement, focusing on the long-term evolution of sites for clients with limited in-house digital teams.
If you’d like to chat about typography, modular Sass, bocce technique, weird amaros, neighborhood bears, or the finer points of making homemade pierogi, don’t hesitate to say hi. I’m from the Midwest, so I’m predisposed to chattiness.
2020 – present
A digital publication from GitHub telling the stories of the maintainers, developers, and teams driving the open source community.
2019
GitHub’s annual report highlighting open source trends and key metrics for the world’s largest developer platform.
2016 – 2019
An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on America’s gun violence crisis.
2018
Election night graphics for the 2018 midterms, showing the shifting balance of congressional power in real time.
2017 – 2018
A custom WordPress site for a dynamic and innovative arts center, built in collaboration with Zak Greene and Dome Collective.
2016 – 2017
Cocktail recipes. Travel guides. Long-form essays about drink culture and history. Basically, The New Yorker of the beverage world.
2016
A playful new home for food essays, recipes, and kitchen inspiration from Penguin Random House, the world’s largest publisher of cookbooks.
2015
A transformative training program for curators of many of the world’s great museums, from the Guggenheim to the Louvre.