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I design products that work for real users & businesses.

I’m Shannon Bryn Soper, a Product Designer with 8 years’ experience designing durable solutions to users’ problems at devtools companies: Gatsby, Postman, and Trunk.io.

I currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah with my husband and two kids. I enjoy cooking and reading science fiction and classic literature.

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a photo of me in an orange jacket in front of stone buildings in Blockley, England.

Featured Design Work

Trunk's quarantine status interface

Trunk

Quarantine Status Model

I redesigned the quarantine feature with increased visibility, a simplified mental model, and a way for users to save and view why the status changed.

Postman onboarding flow

Postman

New-User Onboarding Flow

This design helped more Postman users experience their first “aha!” moment.

Gatsby Builds dashboard

Gatsby

Builds Dashboard

This revised dashboard enabled Gatsby to come out of beta and launch its commercial offering.

Gatsby Cloud onboarding flow

Gatsby

Cloud Onboarding Flow

I redesigned Gatsby Cloud onboarding with smart defaults to reduce the user’s cognitive load.

Gatsby Plugin Library announcement

Gatsby

Plugin Library

Since the launch of the Plugin Library, which I designed, the library has grown from 51 plugins to 3,000+ plugins.

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