Developer Tools & Product Design — DPL Ep. 3

Welcome to Dev Propulsion Labs!

In this series of online round tables, we bring together industry experts on developer productivity to discuss the best practices for designing, building, growing, and promoting successful dev tools.

On the third episode, “Product Design & Developer Tools,” our four guest speakers will explore specifics of devtools design, explore the question of developer experience and share best and worst practices in creating interfaces for developers.

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Our speakers:

Joel Hawksley, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Josh currently works at GitHub on user interface architecture and strategy, guiding UI architectural decisions. He is also known as the author of ViewComponent, a GitHub evangelist at the Ruby and Rails conferences, for his podcast appearances, and as a champion of learning activities around design and development practices.

Shannon Soper, Gatsby & Postman alumna
Shannon Soper is a Product Designer with a passion for solving difficult design problems. After creating online learning experiences at Instructure, she dove into designing developer tools at Gatsby and Postman. Her hobbies include reading, cooking, hiking, and spending time with her husband and son.

Anton Lovchikov, Product Designer at Evil Martians
Anton has been working as a designer for 18 years and has completed more than a hundred projects on user interface design for web and mobile applications. For the last few years, his focus has been UI design for dev tools. Anton was educated as an engineer and uses an engineering approach in his design work.

Jessica Ko, CEO and co-founder of [Playbook.com](http://playbook.com/)
Jessica Ko is in charge of a creative storage platform for creative humans: [Playbook.com](http://playbook.com/). Her work there makes storing and sharing visual assets 10x faster and easier. Besides this, she was previously a designer at Google, YouTube, and Opendoor.

Aayush Iyer, Director of Product, Engineering, and UX at Algolia, and Twilio alumni