Cassidy James Blaede
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 Pop!_OS.
I have a background 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
- Enabling user expression
- Building a story around and communicating user-facing changes
- Finding overlapping interests and encouraging coordination and cooperation across diverse projects
Contact
- Email:
<cassidyjames AT SPAMFREE gnome DOT org>
<c AT SPAMFREE ssidyjam DOT es> (personal)
- Matrix: @cassidyjames:gnome.org
Website (with the most up to date information): cassidyjames.com