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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 taking a break publishing new content until January. More details here!

Alice Packard

🧹 Figma component janitor
📍 Washington, DC
I am actively seeking a new full-time role. hmu.

I'm a design operations practitioner. I help designers and researchers fall in love with their craft all over again.

I've been doing DesignOps formally since mid 2021, but informally since 2018. I'm big into the tooling side of ops. I believe your stack matters more than most are willing to admit. I help connect UX teams with software that makes them stoked to fire up their computers. I work with the designers and researchers to learn the stack and build our skills together, as a team. I make it easy to keep our digital workstations clean. I get people excited about documenting and executing best practices.

I keep a blog, mostly about building 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 wanna talk ops, get in my inbox! Seeing a note from you will brighten my day 💖

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