Hey, I'm Alex. I write code that connects people to pixels. I build communities and create systems with modern technology and thoughtful design.
Alex Page, Developer
Vancouver, BC- harmonograph.art
I lead multidisciplinary teams across the world at Shopify. I am working on the Polaris Design System – Shopify's open source design platform. Our team scales high quality, accessible and performant user experiences to thousands of developers and designers building the commerce platform for everyone.
I was the Lead User Experience Engineer on the Australian Government Design System. I worked in a team to align 1000+ websites over 200+ organisations.
Highlights
polaris.shopify.com
Overhaul and simplification of the polaris.shopify.com documentation site.
The Shopify design system
Yuraima Estevez and I join the Podrocket Podcast. We discuss Shopify's scale, maintaining a design system at this size and more.
Managing design systems in the open
I joined Brian Douglas for GitHubs Open Source Fridays livestream. We break down how we use open-source tools like GitHub discussions to power our design systems.
Replacing Sass at Shopify
Sam Rose and I join Jerod & Divya on the JS Party Podcast. We discuss our open research, finding and selecting a viable alternative for Sass at Shopify.
@shopify/get-repo-images
An open-source tool to find, update, remove and prioritise illustrations across 6000+ repositories.
harmonograph.art
Draw beautiful randomised lissajous curves in the browser.
GitHub Project Automation+
Automate GitHub Project cards with any webhook event.
Why we have user experience developers at Shopify
Web designer, front end developer, web developer, user interface engineer, design technologist…
A11yColor
Generate the nearest accessible color in SASS and JavaScript.
Australian Government Design System
The Australian Government Design System was the foundation to align 1000+ websites over 200+ organisations.