Patricia is a technical product manager,
lead project manager,
front end developer,
community organizer,
and artist.
Patricia is an OddBird Emeritus
who navigated projects through development, to ensure smooth sailing
for our clients and an enchanting experience for their users. With experience in
software engineering and a background in art & marketing, they harness their
passions to act as a conduit for empathetic user experience, high impact
contributions with measurable results, and refining process through facilitation
and iterative organization. Patricia has volunteered extensively in the
JavaScript community for organizations including Node.js, Node Together,
EmpireJS, BrooklynJS, and MaptimeLA and spoken at tech conferences around the
globe.
OddContrast is a color format converter,
featuring newer color formats like
Oklch, Oklab, and the Display P3 color space.
It’s also a color contrast checker
to help designers meet
WCAG 2 accessibility standards.
Along with our work for the W3C
developing specifications
for the CSS language,
OddBird has started and maintains
a number of powerful polyfills
for new web platform features
including the Popover attribute,
CSS Anchor Positioning, and Cascade Layers.
Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency –
but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets.
We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides &
pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you
keep your development process simple –
and your UX consistent –
as you scale over time.
OddBird’s Accoutrement tools
help keep design tokens meaningful to both humans and machines –
opening the door for automation, while improving readability.
These tools also integrate with Herman,
our automated pattern-library generator.