Tyler Nickerson

Hi there! 👋🏻 I’m Tyler, a design engineer living in Seattle, WA. I’m the founder of Kojo Design and The Open Dictionary Project, as well as the co-founder of Linguistic.

Here you’ll mostly find my writing, as well as where to find me elsewhere on the web.

Thoughts

• Jul 15, 2023 First Impressions: Deno
• Jan 3, 2023 Your Duolingo lessons probably aren't sticking. Here's why.
• Feb 19, 2019 Why you should probably be using a design system (and how to build one)
• Dec 18, 2018 The toxicity of the MVP
• Aug 13, 2018 Designing as a developer in 2018

Projects

Booth.js

Audio recording in record time

CityHop

Aesthetic walks around the world

Hop

The package manager for web apps

Maildown

Write emails in Markdown

Nightbox

Dark color palettes for everyone

oa

Dead-simple monkey testing

ODict

A blazingly-fast dictionary format

Push.js

Desktop notifications made easy