John Hildenbiddle

John Hildenbiddle

UX Design & Engineering in Austin, TX

About

I am a UX design and engineering leader with over two decades of experience building, optimizing, and scaling world-class products and teams for startups and industry-leading enterprises.

πŸ‘¦πŸ»β€οΈβ€Ž β€Ž Proud papa
πŸ‘©πŸ»πŸ’β€Ž β€Ž Happy husband
β˜€οΈπŸŽΈβ€Ž β€Ž Living in Austin, TX
πŸŒ§οΈβ˜•οΈβ€Ž β€Ž Previously from Seattle, WA
πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸŽ¨πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»β€Ž β€Ž 20+ years in UI/UX design and engineering
πŸ§˜πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ’­β€Ž β€Ž Life is short. Be kind.

Work Experience

2008 β€” 2024
UX Design, Web Development, and Technology Consultant at High Kick Creative
2016 β€” 2017
2012 β€” 2015
2000 β€” 2010
2007 β€” 2008
Co-Founder, Designer / Developer at Wishlisting
Seattle, WA
1999 β€” 2000
Application Designer, Consultant at Eltrax Systems, Inc.
Columbia, SC
1997 β€” 1999
Application Designer / Developer at IKON Technology Services
Columbia, SC
1996 β€” 1997
Lead Web Designer / Developer at Realty.com
Columbia, SC

Side Projects

Ongoing

Author and maintainer of over 20 open-source projects, collectively downloaded millions of times each month and used by companies like Alibaba, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, and SAP. Details available on GitHub

A collection of noteworthy projects are listed below.

Ongoing
Docsifyο»Ώ

A magical "zero-build" documentation site generator.

Ongoing
Docsify Plugins

A collection of plugins for Docsify.js.

Ongoing

A delightfully simple theme system for docsify.js.

2022
Mergicianο»Ώ

A uniquely flexible and light-weight utility for deep (recursive) merging/cloning of JavaScript objects.

2022

A clean, customizable, typography-focused theme system for the markdown editor, Typora.

2021

A collection of single-element, CSS-only application and device frames with support for multiple themes and customization via CSS custom properties.

2018

Determine the maximum size and custom dimension support of an HTML canvas element.

2017

A ponyfill that provides client-side support for CSS custom properties (aka "CSS variables") in legacy and modern browsers.

2016

A Sass/SCSS library for responsive vertical rhythm grids, modular scale typography, and CSS normalization.

2015
Nth-Gridο»Ώ

A versatile semantic CSS grid system with legacy browser support for Less, PostCSS, Sass, and Stylus.

Contact

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