Steve Dennis

@stevedennis

Figma Wizard

Design Leadership

Product Design

Design Systems

A11y

DEI Advocate

HTML

CSS

Game Enthusiast

Antiracist

Parent

UX Design

UI Design

Visual Design

Interaction Design

Web Design

Manager

I'm Steve, a Product Design Manager (by way of product design, product management, web design, and a splash of front-end dev) from 🇳🇿 based in 🇬🇧. Interested in design systems, processes, and how to make building products more collaborative.

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I'm open to

beta testing new products,

participating in user research,

advising companies,

and brainstorming.

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Resume

May 2018 - Present

Product Design Lead, Onfido

Portfolio

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Wrote a piece that I hope is useful to both managers and ICs on preparing yourself well for potential promotions, and making it easy for your boss to help you get it. https://medium.com/p/63f07109ff50

An introspective piece on the five biggest mistakes I made while working on Onfido's design system, Castor. https://medium.com/p/4725859926c2

Wrote about auditing design system health, manually using spreadsheets. https://medium.com/p/dc08e73f9def

Wrote a beginner's guide to Design Tokens. What are they, how to use them. https://medium.com/p/191e90fac9c8

Writing

Wrote an article(listicle) entitled Five essential Figma Plugins.

Wrote an article entitled How we improved our project and file structure in Figma.

Published an article on How to deprecate old components in Figma design systems.