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At Squarespace I designed layout systems that gave people new ways to express themselves online. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ JAN ‘18—SEPT ‘22. Over my years at Squarespace, across many roles, I grew into a design leader and eventually created the Character Team — a small, design-led group focused on elevating Squarespace’s reputation as the most design-forward website builder through features that enabled self-expression. Much of our work centered on defining layout types around user needs and designing UI that made it simple for anyone to fine-tune how elements fit together. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ At the heart of Character was the idea of expressibility. Expressibility can be defined as the richness of our layout system, which involved creating a foundation that could scale into multitudes of different options, enabling our users to express themselves beyond simple intentions. [E.G. A SIMPLE LIST] [ITS VARIANTS] ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ The goal of these l

At Squarespace I designed layout systems that gave people new ways to express themselves online. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ JAN ‘18—SEPT ‘22. Over my years at Squarespace, across many roles, I grew into a design leader and eventually created the Character Team — a small, design-led group focused on elevating Squarespace’s reputation as the most design-forward website builder through features that enabled self-expression . Much of our work centered on defining layout types around user needs and designing UI that made it simple for anyone to fine-tune how elements fit together. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

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