Andy Ford Senior Frontend Engineer
andy@fordinteractive.com
+49 152 59531042
Munich, Germany
andy@fordinteractive.com
+49 152 59531042
Munich, Germany
Builder of web interfaces and design systems with over 20 years of experience working in design agencies, tech startups and large enterprises.
Iʼm passionate about crafting the best possible user experience by focusing on accsssibility, usability, code quality and performance.
Languages: English (native), intermediate German (B1).
Leading an engineering team building internal frontend infrastructure and tools.
Core maintainer of UI component library (TypeScript, React, [S]CSS, Storybook, Rollup), collaborating with UX Team to implement design system. Support and consulting for colleagues using our UI library and other internal libraries. Collaborated with Frontend Architects to author, maintain and evangelize internal frontend standards & guidelines. Facilitated monthly frontend guild meetings and moderated guild Slack channel.
Designed, prototyped, built, and maintained several web apps (HTML, CSS, Sass, styled-components, JavaScript,TypeScript, React, Preact, Next.js, Storybook, Node.js, Express). Interviewed UX research participants.
Designed and built web interfaces with Ruby on Rails and Angular 2 - with a focus on user experience and CSS architecture - in close collaboration with a cross-functional team.
I led an international team of front and back end web developers developing new features for the Westwing consumer shopping experience in 9 languages across 14 countries.
Full-stack development of REST, SPA and MVC web apps and web-based UX prototypes. Wrote usability interview questions/flows. Analyzed and created data visualizations of our user research & usability tests with data from UserTesting, Usabilla, SurveyMonkey, Optimizely Clients included Fortune 100 companies.
AdGlue was a startup ad platform and a 2012 SXSW Accelerator finalist. As the sole designer and frontend developer, I designed all UI and visual assets including the product styleguide, workflows and wireframes. Developed responsive frontend in HTML5, CSS3 (Sass/Compass), JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and Grails GSPs.
Defined user workflows, designed wireframes and mockups, and frontend development using JSPs, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, AJAX, Git. Designed and implemented a responsive retrofit of sacramentopress.com.
Frontend template production and integration into Mura CMS for projects ranging from small sites to large web apps for Fortune 100 companies.
Developed and designed file sharing webapp (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS). Designed screens for Loan Management System desktop software product.
CSS-Tricks article exploring the usage of inline CSS variables/custom properties along with the
CSS calc() function to reduce overall amount of CSS.
https://css-tricks.com/efficient-infinite-utility-helpers-using-inline-css-custom-properties-and-calc/
The site is headless WordPress with an Eleventy frontend hosted on Netlify. Performance and accessibility were a top priority as a technical expression of inclusion.
(retired, but can be found on archive.org) A social photo sharing site for Lego artists built with AdonisJS, postgres, server-rendered HTML, minimal client-side JavaScript; and hosted on Heroku. Third party integrations include Cloudinary, Mailgun, and Mailchimp.