Florian Kissling
Senior Product Designer at Gatsby
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Kissling is a Senior Product Designer based in Frankfurt with 11 years of experience blending UI/GUI design, accessibility, and front-end development to craft polished, usable interfaces. At Gatsby since 2018 he ships design-forward, developer-friendly UI improvements and has contributed front-end fixes and features to high-profile open-source projects in the Gatsby ecosystem, including adding duotone image options and accessibility enhancements. He pairs visual sensibilities—typography and illustration—with hands-on HTML/CSS/JS work, often implementing SVG icons, modals and responsive layouts himself. As director of 6230 he brings strategic leadership to product design while staying deeply involved in implementation. Colleagues describe him as methodical and pragmatic, with a knack for turning subtle UX needs into elegant front-end solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Friedrich-Dessauer-GymnasiumJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
gatsbyjs10
graphql10
css-modules10
javascript10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
react10
wpgraphql10
gatsby10
image-optimization9
styled-components9
accessibility9
svg8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/store.gatsbyjs.org
Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
The Gatsby store for swag and other Gatsby goodies.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 198 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily worked on front-end development tasks within the Gatsby store repository. Their contributions focused on improving the user interface by fixing alignment issues for cart icons and badges, replacing existing cart icons with new SVG implementations, and creating a modal for displaying a size chart and care instructions. These changes involved modifications to React components, styling, and the addition of new components, indicating a focus on enhancing the user experience and visual aspects of the store.
gatsbyjs
contentful-labs/starter-gatsby-blog
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Gatsby starter for a Contentful project from the community.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 37 commits, 4 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on front-end development, particularly within a Gatsby-based blog project. Their contributions include upgrading to Gatsby v3 and integrating `gatsby-plugin-image` for image optimization. They refactored the UI, implemented accessibility improvements, and enhanced the blog's functionality with features like previous/next article links and a redesigned navigation. The changes also involved styling updates and modifications to component layouts.
contentfulgatsbyjs
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