Dan Eden is a Designer currently working at Figma, designing and building for designers and builders.
In his spare time, he builds little apps to solve little problems.
Dan writes about what he’s learned from and about designing. He posts about it more.
Résumé
Talks & Interviews
- Clarity 20192019“Where We Can Go”
- Lovers Magazine2018Interview
- One Day Out 20162016“System Failure”
- Design Details2016Podcast
- dotCSS 20152015“Move Slow and Fix Things”
Open Source & Side Projects
- TimeMachine2025A Swift library for building apps with time travel
- Suite2025Practical extensions for SwiftUI that make common tasks easier
- Flowstate2022Curated music for focused periods of work
- Twift2022An async Swift library for the Twitter v2 API
- Typography for Knowledge Work2021A guide to clear, readable typography for everyday documents
- Rando2021Pick a random item from a list
- Bread for the Busy2020Sourdough recipes and tips for busy people
- PiPify2020A bookmarklet that plays any video picture-in-picture
- Random Music Playlist2020A macOS service that plays a random Apple Music playlist
- Brills2019Quickly works out how much disposable income you have each month
- Lucid Toys2019Single-purpose web apps for focus and utility, like a Tube status board and a timer
- Oakland 20182018Photos of Oakland’s Chinatown as covers for a year of playlists
- Who Would Win Bot2018A Twitter bot that pits emoji against one another
- Design Systems Office Hours Playbook2018A template for running (or attending) design systems office hours
- 2017 in Music2018Generative art covers for a year of monthly playlists
- Photos2016A gallery of some of my favourite photos
- Just My Type2013A community collection of Typekit font pairings
- Basehold.it2012Quick, painless, JavaScript-free baseline grid overlays
- Toast2011A highly customisable, responsive (S)CSS grid
- Animate.css2011Ready-to-use, cross-browser CSS animations