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Jesse Gardner
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🗽 Design systems and a11y for New York State
🍎 Aspiring orchardist and candlemaker
IRS Direct File accomplished levels of satisfaction higher than Apple or Netflix… without firing tens of thousands of users. #cfasummit
May 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Will you be at @codeforamerica.org Summit 2025? Let's meet up!

I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!
May 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Nearly 1 in 4 New Yorkers live with a disability. Visible or invisible, lifelong or temporary — it’s something that will eventually affect everyone. Excited to be part of building a Central Accessibility Team at New York State. Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad #accessibility #a11y
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
God grant me the serenity
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Lucky enough to spend time exploring NYC with this girl. Enjoying every moment! 💕
March 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
When your wife and kids sneak into your ChatGPT account.
February 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Constitution is not a self-correcting document. It’s a legal framework with checks and balances that only works if enough people collectively demand it to.
February 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
First day on the slopes. Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Today’s Special
December 12, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Spent the day proctoring exams for a Science Olympiad competition.
December 7, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Good morning, friends!
December 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Age yourself with your first computer.
November 17, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Carbon therapy.
November 10, 2024 at 7:18 PM
“Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what my current life looks like.”

Not bad… though I’d never be able to grow a beard like that.
November 10, 2024 at 12:18 PM
onward
November 8, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Had to get out of the house the other day. Went sunset chasing with my youngest.
May 7, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Sure is a lovely day today.
May 6, 2023 at 8:40 PM
Launching 🚀 Tuesday, May 9
https://practicaldesignsystems.com/daily/
May 5, 2023 at 6:06 PM
I see everyone's posting selfies. I'm not that photogenic, so here's a picture of my wife. She's the better part of me, anyway. 💕
May 5, 2023 at 3:25 AM
Immediately after I took this photo, two coyotes stepped out of the woods a few yards ahead of me on the dark road where I was walking. I froze for a moment, and so did they. Came to my senses finally and started screaming and clapping like a lunatic. They ran off, and I lived to tell the story.
May 4, 2023 at 2:46 AM
Hey user research friends! Beside Steve Portigal's fantastic book about Interview Users, what’s a good book or resource you can point me to about building UXR teams?
May 1, 2023 at 5:00 PM
I want this colon emoji dialog everywhere on macOS.
May 1, 2023 at 4:52 PM
May 1, 2023 at 4:22 PM
rainy evening in NYC
April 29, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Not so BlueSky.
April 28, 2023 at 2:55 AM