Chel Myers
Staff Researcher at Figma
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChel Myers is a Staff Researcher with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience translating mixed-methods insights into product strategy and UX goals for teams at Figma, Webflow, and Shogun. They blend academic rigor from Drexel’s PXL Lab with hands-on product research, specializing in adaptive interfaces and personalization as richer user data becomes available. Chel has led research across domains including online communities, voice control, machine learning interfaces, and media editing, and excels at turning findings into actionable roadmaps that influence design and engineering decisions. Known for practicing empathy and curiosity, they pair qualitative depth with quantitative thinking to shape human-centered, data-informed experiences. Based in Long Beach, CA, Chel also brings teaching and entrepreneurial experience—having co-founded a media studio and instructed UX courses—which informs their collaborative, cross-functional approach.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Digital Media, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Digital Media at Drexel University
Github Skills (10)
entities7
census7
colors5
css5
javascript4
html4
flat-file2
cms2
ux-design1
typescript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chelmyers/RPL
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 58 pushes in 5 months
chelmyers/STUXIIdemos
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
typescriptux-design
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