About Me

Jonathan Fox
Design systems specialist

I am an experienced Design Engineer - with demonstrable competency in both designing and engineering software design systems. I hold particular interest in the relationship between canvas and code, and building AI ready component libraries. I do my best work in fast paced enviroments and on projects that prioritze strong brand identity.

Cleveland, OH
himself@thejonathanfox.com
Expertise
Design systems
Figma variables
Figma MCP
Storybook
W3C design tokens
React
Vue
HTML / CSS
Next.js
TypeScript
WCAG / ARIA
Tailwind
Git
Playwright
Claude Code
Design token architecture
Component library development
Design to code workflows
Agentic prototyping
Design system governance
Interaction & UI design
Accessiblity driven design
AI-ready design systems
Experience
Socialive
Senior Design Engineer

High fidelity React component library design & implementation. Engineer my own designs. Liaison between executive product owners and engineering peers.

Figma / Claude / Storybook
React / Typescript / Tailwind
Aperture AI
Design Systems manager

Design advocate within the engineering team and engineering advocate within the design team. Collaborated on both sides en route to a custom component library.

Figma / Tokens Studio / Storybook
React / Typescript / Radix
Drips
Senior Front End Engineer

Aesthetic refresh & logical refactor of legacy web applications. Refactored and rewrote internal web applications.

Sketch / ProtoPie
AngularJS / .Net / SCSS
7Signal
Front End Engineer

The boring parts of front end development: application logic, routing, and API interfacing. Self appointed and unofficial UX Designer.

Sketch / Zeplin
React / Redux / {Less}
Let's build a design system together.