This Modern WebThe personal website of Patrick Marsceill

Patrick Marsceill is a product designer at WorkOSYouʼve found his home on the internet —

I tend to write about design + tech, my own life, and occasionally music and film. If you're curious about what I'm currently watching, listening to, or reading, check out my Now page.

My earliest post here was in 2012, so you could say that is the year that I established this site. Back then though, it was under my own namesake, patrickmarsceill.com (which now redirects over here). I wrote a post with some context as to the name change and more about what I'm trying to do here. In the past, I never kept up a regular writing schedule, but these days I try to get something new up at least twice a week.

Patrick Marsceill

My work

In early 2022, I joined the team at WorkOS and am now focused on designing and building tools for developers integrating enterprise-focused features like single sign-on, directory sync, HR integrations, and audit trails.

Prior to WorkOS, I was a product designer at GitHub for about six-and-a-half years. In my time there, I worked on almost every part of the product. I managed teams and led design efforts on many core features like GitHub actions, pull requests, code review, security, ecosystem / api, marketing / top-of-funnel, and new user experience and was an early contributor to the Primer design system. Most recently though, I was a Staff Designer working on GitHub issues and projects.

My working style is hands-on and I enjoy writing code as much I like thinking about problems, designing interfaces, and collaborating with my team. Inevitably one of these things will lead to another.

Before joining GitHub in 2015, I led design teams at Happy Cog and Empathy Lab working with Fortune 500 industry leaders, scrappy start-ups, and mission-driven non-profits to build digital products for screens of all sizes.

Personal projects

I've loved the internet since I first logged on as a pre-teen in the early 90's. From the start, I was hooked on the ability to create for this medium. Over the years I have designed + built many personal side projects — the remnants of my first (from 2001) still lives on at archive.org.

  • Just the Docs - A “best in class” Open Source Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.
  • Aware - A simple menubar app for OSX and macOS that tracks how long you've been actively using your computer.
  • Tab Lab - (archived link, project shut down). Publish guitar tablature and music notation with an abstract markdown-like language.

About this website

I wrote this website in TypeScript using the Next.js framework. The source code is on GitHub and is under a GNU General Public License v3.0. This website is hosted on Vercel.

The logotype is set in Optician Sans (Open Source on GitHub), the body copy is set in Freight Text Pro, monospace is IBM Plex Mono and the rest of the site uses a system-safe font stack:

font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif