@mdo

@mdo

Designer in San Francisco

About

Designer, advisor, developer, open source maintainer. Creator of Bootstrap. Huge nerd.

Projects

Ongoing

Creator of the world's most popular frontend framework.

Ongoing

Open source icon set featuring over 1,500 SVGs.

Writing

2018

Read about how we replaced the aging sans-serif fonts on all of GitHub with native system fonts.

2014

An exercise in dogfooding early and often to evaluate redesigned product interfaces.

2014

Prototyped, designed, re-engineered, and shipped in two months.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Founder & Designer at Studio MDO

Working with teams like LiveKit, Zed, Dragonfly, and more on their branding, marketing, product design, frontend.

2019 — 2023
San Francisco

Designer, developer, and maintainer working on GitHub's brand, storytelling and narrative, and more special projects.

2015 — 2019
San Francisco

Managed and grew a hybrid team of product designers, web designers, graphic designers, illustrators/animators, videographers, and copywriters.

2012 — 2015
San Francisco

Design and code for GitHub.com's overall appearance, repo layout, code review and split diffs, Issues and Pull Requests, and more.

2010 — 2012
2007 — 2010
Designer at ZURB
Campbell, CA

Contact

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