Mu-An Chiou / 邱慕安

Mu-An Chiou / 邱慕安

Taipei, She, Her / 她

About

I like to make modest websites.

Work Experience

2023 — 2024
Head of Design Systems 設計制度總顧問 at Public Digital Innovation Space, National Institute of Cyber Security
Taiwan

Improving government websites one reusable component at a time.

2022 — 2023
Remote

Fullstack web development with Rails. Led efforts on front-end components (JavaScript) and accessibility.

2011 — 2021
Remote

One-woman product design/engineering/ops team for the first decade.

Hired a CTO in 2021 and stepped down from day to day operations completely.

2013 — 2020
Remote

Product Design → Design Systems → Web Systems (vanilla JavaScript and frontend infrastructure).

From design to fullstack development. Led efforts on Web Components and accessibility for GitHub.com.

2013 — 2013
Product Designer & Software Engineer at Copyin
London, San Francisco

Design and front-end development in Rails.

2012 — 2013
Product Designer & Frontend Developer at Bluefields
London, Mountain View (500 Startups)

Design and front-end development with Backbone.js, back-end in PHP then Ruby on Rails.

2012 — 2012
Furniture Design Intern at Pli Design
London

Projects

Ongoing
W E B R I N G 💫
2014

With Emily Nakashima, started @github/accessibility team and created github.com/collections/we….

2021

Product reviews from your friends.

2020

Easy to use Unicode emoji data in JSON.

2020

A web extension that adds a drawing tab to comment sections on GitHub using <canvas>.

2016

A web app for a travel book Pei-Ling published.

2013

An emoji keyword library.

2013
UPUP

A word-to-image generator I built in collaboration with illustrator haniboi.com/.

2019
A dialog on <dialog> at Brooklyn JS
Brooklyn, NY
2018
Details on <details> at Brooklyn JS
Brooklyn, NY
2015
Publishing and Hosting on GitHub pages at Mozfest
London, UK

Education

2008 — 2011
BA (Hons) Interior Products Design at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birimingham, UK
2007 — 2008
French Language and Literature at National Central University
Taiwan

Contact

GitHub
Website