About Elise Hein
I’m a design engineer at Plain. Previously, led design systems at Griffin, helped build products for healthcare research at Ctrl Group, worked on personal digital branding at MOO, and researched development practices at UCL for my master’s degree in HCI.
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Edges and intersectionsAfter a decade of working between design and development, I'm joining Plain as a UI engineer to help shape how we work within the discipline. This is a look at how I approach the role, what drives me in the balancing act, and where along the spectrum I’ve landed, for now.
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Fighting inter-component HTML bloatThe separation of concerns we aim for in design systems has an unwanted byproduct: bloated HTML in the space between components. What can we do as component authors to encourage good markup hygiene at the inter-component level?
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Where's the fun in accessibility?UX is not only about the way it works, but about delight, whimsy, wit, and beauty. But when it comes to accessibility, we tend to take the term literally. Why?
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Using the platformHow far can framework-free, zero-build codebases take you in 2021?
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Schematics: A Love StoryA deep-dive into stackless JavaScript and SVG animations.
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Google-driven developmentFor my MSc research, I looked at how programmers use online search and how this data can inform DX. With this work, I was recognised as one of the top performing students in the faculty. The full report is available here.
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Exploring ARKit for healthA write-up on our explorations with ARKit at Ctrl Group
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Tenfold is on the App Store!I tried my hand at designing and building a minimal number game for iOS, inspired by the pen-and-paper version I used to play in school.
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Tag usage overviews in Jekyll -
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iCloud, Dropbox, symbolic links -
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Smart support for medication adherence -
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Usability for programmers: dissertation kickoff -
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Fruit flies like a banana -
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More accessible cubic bezier functions -
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Tossing looms, weaving words