Hey, I'm Nate!
I work remotely as a designer for Zed, where we are tackling collaborative software development at it's root–the editor.
Before that I spent 5 years at Facebook, where I worked on News Feed, Developer Tooling and blue sky projects.
Say hi on Twitter or send me an email, I'd love to chat!
Projects
We are already pretty damn good at manipulating text at Zed... We think AI is just another way to do that.
We went deep on a no-magic approach to editing using large language models, where you are in full control.
Featuring a sweet site revamp by the one and only @danilobleal
Shipped our first site for Zed! We are currently in deep development, but wanted a way for people to learn more about what we are building, and have a way to know when new info drops. Check it out!
Exploring the new Automator plugin for Figma. Thought a minimal generative series using pixels and mapping equations would be a fun way to try it out.
Hey 👋 We're the team behind the Atom editor... and we're building something new!
This was a quick little project to tease Zed in the earliest days. The goal was clean & simple–let the content speak over fancy visuals.
Worked on numerous internal productivity tools and contributed to our Internal design system, with a focus on navigation and layouts.
Lead design on Facebook Avatars from it's inception in early 2017 until 2019. Helped build the Avatars team from the ground up from a team of 2 to what is over 20 today.
Social, prompt based lists. Share your favorite games, TV shows, hangover food or travel destination, then get your friends to do the same!
Putting some color into your news feed 🎨
Features
I joined this episode to chat with Anthony & Katie about all things design, engineering & the intricacies of making interfaces for developers.
Complementary is a podcast about the principles and practices of interface design hosted by Anthony Hobday & Katie Langerman.
Side Projects
An open source design doc site focused on helping early career designers and new grads on their journey into the design industry.
I designed a series of abstract 3D backgrounds that were used in the FB iOS 11 GUI, and distributed separately as a wallpaper pack.
Work Experience
We're building the first collaboration-first code editor – Ex-atom founders and a whole score of talented folks are getting together to build you the best code editor you could imagine.
Designed & shipped the Facebook Page Plugin to help website owners and developers connect their websites and apps to their Facebook content.
Worked on product for fashion in a pre- Instagram world. Designed upload flows, homepages, profiles, navigation. Front end web design & development.
Designed a more friendly way for people to create the layouts they want on their creative portfolios by using prebuilt mix-and-match blocks.
Designed and managed home pages, navigation, information architecture and individual pages for the new sites of the York University Design & Fine Arts Programs.