Cassidy × GNOME

Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy using open technologies.

Partner Success Engineer at the Endless OS Foundation, GNOME design contributor, and member of the GNOME Foundation. Previously, I co-founded elementary, Inc. supporting elementary OS and was the UX architect at System76 working on the initial GNOME-based version of Pop!_OS.

I have a background and expertise in user experience, open source, product design, communication, and project coordination.

Specific Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Balancing a platform’s design vision with user delight
• Accessibility features being supported and promoted as standard features
• Spatial user interaction models (including layout and animation)
• Building a sustainable app ecosystem
• UI typography
• UX copy and microcopy
• Developing, maintaining, and enforcing Human Interface Guidelines
• System-wide dark styles and accent colors
• Enabling user expression
• Building a story around and communicating user-facing changes
• Finding overlapping interests and encouraging coordination and cooperation across diverse projects

Contact & More

To learn more, check out my résumé, or see the footer of this page to find me elsewhere on the Internet. :)

This content was originally from my page on the GNOME Wiki, which has been retired.