Title
Frontend Engineer
Nic Ford, frontend & design-system engineer.
Self-taught engineer with over a decade of experience shipping interfaces. Passionate about solving problems by building systems. Built screens for anything from a small businesses to enterprise application. Nothing beats solving a problem once and never having to deal with it again.
12+ yrs
Boise, Idaho
MST · GMT-7
Currently · Alter Domus
Stack
React / TS / Next
Origin
Printing Press, 2013
Status
It's complicated
§ 00
Index
A → E · five sections
Comfortable top to bottom, but happiest near the surface — the parts users actually touch. Most of the work sits between a designer's file and a working interface. Always hunting for patterns worth establishing and tedium worth automating.
- 01Indexp. 02
- 02Workp. 03 / five roles
- 03Capabilitiesp. 04 / six areas
- 04Educationp. 05
- 05Contactp. 06
§ 03
Selected Work
5 engagements · 2018 →
§ 04
Capabilities
6 areas
§ 05
Education & Posture
Where it started
● Formal
B.A.S. — Printing Press Technologies
Lewis-Clark State College
2009 — 2013
Continuing education
Whatever the team is using — and one thing they aren't, yet.
ongoing
● Posture
Built things at five companies, mentored juniors at three, and have yet to be told the design system is finished anywhere.