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A close up head-shot portrait of Alice, looking directly into the camera. She's very pale, keeps her dark brunette hair short, has green eyes, wears transparent, thin-framed round glasses, and has a lazy eye (which thankfully isn't drifting as much as usual in this photo). Though she's not smiling, she's trying to put out a friendly vibe with her eyes.

I'm hosting a private, one-time livestream about icon components on January 24. More details here!

Alice Packard

📍 Washington, DC

I am actively seeking a new full-time role. hit me up.

I'm a designer specializing in design systems.

For a while I was doing design operations. I enjoyed home-brewing UX research repositories, glowing-up onboarding experiences, but was always most proud of my work as a Figma component librarian and architect (aka janitor). That's how I wound up specializing in design systems. I get a lot of satisfaction making production-ready assets for DS consumers. You can read about my work on my portfolio.

I've committed a lot of time to understand not just the mechanics of each Figma feature, but how to employ them strategically. This gets me the most out of my Figma license today, and prepares me for whatever tools will come next.

I also keep a blog about building excellent Figma components, and working smarter in the tool. If you want to nerd out with me about Figma I'd love to have you on my newsletter list. If you just want to chat, get in my inbox! Seeing a note from you will brighten my day 💖 I love meeting folks from the internet, and being a helper.

Features and kudos

Zeroheight invited me to contribute an article—10 common component architecture mistakes in Figma design systems—to their blog.
FigmaLion's 206th issue featured my blog post about using variables beyond light and dark mode.
Figma included me in the day 1 opening keynote of Config 2024. Dylan described the handsome assembly of profile pics as "people in the community who have inspired us with their craft." My friends were just as excited about this as I was!
Smashing magazine's 435th newsletter plugged my blog post on rescuing Figma file memory. This specific newsletter issue was enjoyed by over 200,000 readers.
Vitaly Friedman also featued the same blog post Smashing did (rescuing file memory) in a very handy resource-round-up post on LinkedIn. This post has gotten over 440+ reactions, and likely thousands of impressions.
Luis Ouriach tweeted that my blog post on when to use variants, variables, component props, and separate components is an "11/10" read. 16,000+ people saw this.
Paavan and Omar have kindly described my blog as "so good", "a hidden gem."
Ridd has plans to add my most popular blog post as a resource in his wildly popular course, Figma Academy.
Gleb, maker of Master Plugin and one of the most prolific posters in the community forum, is a fan of my work. And I'm proud to say he was the very first person to subscribe to my newsletter.

Alice Packard

Recently published

Why I don't use icon fonts in Figma

10 common component architecture mistakes in Figma design systems

Live strokes VS flattened filled paths for icons in Figma

Features and kudos