Alasdair Monk

Alasdair Monk

Software Designer

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
2013 — 2015

Side Projects

Ongoing

An automated pipeline designed to make distributing apps with Sparkle easier to maintain and collaborate on

2022

We spent much of 2022 working on a major update to Sleeve, our little music accessory for your desktop.

In Sleeve 2 we've introduced Themes to allow for endless customisation to suit your mood or your Mac. We've also added Global Hotkeys to control your music player, Last.fm integration, the ability to 'Like' songs in Spotify from Sleeve, iCloud syncing for your Themes, and many more little customisations and features we think you'll love.

2021

Control your music, customized your way, right from your desktop

2021

Design a custom GameBoy DMG in a 3D environment and share your creation with the internet

2020

The missing app for Dark Mode

2019

Declarative CSS utilities for flexible layouts

2017

A design tool for conversational experiences that I designed & built

2015
Saber

A iPad, iOS and macOS client for Heroku

2013
Lines.app

The London Underground in your pocket

Awards

2021

While at Salesforce I spent several months researching and developing low-code application building. The culmination of this work was ultimately submitted, and granted as a patent.

Writing

2021

An introduction to the macOS app delivery tooling that we wrote at Replay

2018

I detailed the custom design tooling that I led the development of at Salesforce which included a web and macOS app to streamline the process of delivering designs

2016

Tips and tricks learnt from working remotely at Heroku

2016

I was commisioned by .NET to write this piece which appeared in the January 2016 edition of the magazine. It explores the suitability of stagnant design tooling that we as designers have at our disposal for a rapidly evolving set of requirements

Education

BSc First Class with Honours, Information Technology at University of Reading
Reading, UK

Contact

GitHub
Twitter