Mu-An Chiou / 邱慕安

Work Experience

2023 — 2024
Head of Design Systems 設計制度總顧問 at National Institute of Cyber Security 國家資通安全研究院 & Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)
Taiwan

Kickstart Design System efforts for government projects. Audit and advise more than 25 existing crucial governmental services for front-end practices and accessibility compliances.

2022 — 2023
Remote

Fullstack web development with Rails. Led efforts on front-end components and accessibility auditing and compliance.

2013 — 2020
Remote

Product Design → Design Systems → Web Systems (vanilla JavaScript and frontend infrastructure).

From design to fullstack development. Led efforts on Web Components and accessibility compliance and auditing for Microsoft acquisition.

2011 — 2021
Remote

One-person product design/engineering/ops team for the first decade.

Hired a CTO in 2021 and stepped down from day to day operations completely.

2013 — 2013
Product Designer & Software Engineer at Copyin
London, San Francisco

Design and front-end development in Rails.

2012 — 2013
Product Designer & Frontend Developer at Bluefields
London, Mountain View (500 Startups)

Design and front-end development with Backbone.js, back-end in PHP then Ruby on Rails.

2012 — 2012
Furniture Design Intern at Pli Design
London

Projects

2025

Bafu.tw aims to support Taiwanese voters in organizing recall campaigns. Designed with accessibility as a core principle, affirming that civic movements should be inclusive and open to all.

2014

With Emily Nakashima, started @github/accessibility team and created the Web Accessibility collection on GitHub .

Writing

Podcast appearances

Side Projects

2022

OpenHeart & OpenStories and their clients. Tools for people who want to be off social media.

2022
2021

Product reviews from your friends.

2020

Easy to use Unicode emoji data in JSON.

2020

A web extension that adds a drawing tab to comment sections on GitHub using <canvas>.

2016

A web app for a travel book Pei-Ling published.

2013

An emoji keyword library.

2013
UPUP

A word-to-image generator I built in collaboration with illustrator https://haniboi.com/.

Speaking

2019
A dialog on <dialog> at Brooklyn JS
Brooklyn, NY
2018
Details on <details> at Brooklyn JS
Brooklyn, NY
2015
Publishing and Hosting on GitHub pages at Mozfest
London, UK

Education

2008 — 2011
BA (Hons) Interior Products Design at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birimingham, UK
2007 — 2008
French Language and Literature at National Central University
Taiwan

Contact

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GitHub
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