Manning Fisher, GitKraken’s Creative Director, and Justin Roberts, the Director of Product for the legendary GitKraken Client, work tirelessly to ensure the company’s tools are purpose-built with developer experience (DX) at the forefront. This means researching, designing, measuring and optimizing every feature, every flow, every view. 

In this fireside chat, these two will discuss why design has been so critical to winning the hearts and minds of 20M+ devs who use GitKraken tools today. They’ll delve into the traits that define “great design”, as well as the opportunities and challenges of building products for a famously demanding audience. They’ll debate whether there’s still room for creativity – and even delight – in an increasingly quant-centric age of measuring everything. You won’t want to miss this passionate discussion (and at times, spirited debate) full of examples from dev-focused brands they admire and are inspired by.

Justin Roberts is a Product Director at GitKraken where he’s led the design and development of GitKraken Client since its inception. While his education was in architecture (not the software kind), he’s long since left the world of designing physical buildings and instead, has focused on building beautiful, intuitive developer tools for the past decade.

Manning Fisher (AKA Fisher) joined GitKraken as Creative Director earlier this year. He brings a wealth of experience as a seasoned product and brand designer who visually brought to life Twitter’s mobile developer tools, Twitter Fabric (previously known as Crashlytics), which was later acquired by Google Cloud. He was also the lead product designer at Docker, where he directed and implemented design for Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Enterprise. Prior to that, Fisher led product design efforts at Applause, Root and Infra.