James Nash in a nutshell

Hi there! My name is James Nash and this is my personal website. I’m a design system nerd, classically trained webmaster and occasional fashion terrorist. In my spare time, I’m also one of the editors of the Design Tokens Community Group (DTCG) format specification.

This site primarily a place for me to share things I have made, am involved in or just find interesting with the world. Who knows, perhaps it will also let long lost acquaintances find me and get in touch.

A little about me

• I like drawing, doing graphics on the computer and just generally making stuff that looks nice (amazingly, some people seem to think I’m good at it too! I’ll let you judge for yourself though).
• I like gadgets and gizmos, in particular mobile phones (it’s like having all the other gadgets combined into one!).
• I consider myself a bit of geek (when I’m not playing with phones, I’m often found mucking about on the computer).

So there you go, that’s me. I hope you enjoy the blog, art & links sections of my site!

Most recent blog posts

Posted on Friday, 31. October 2025

A look back at how I got involved with the DTCG and played a small part shaping the format specification

Posted on Wednesday, 21. August 2024

The shocking secret CSS developers don’t want you to know. Learn the truth now!

Posted on Tuesday, 20. August 2024

How to implement robust, Windows-proof relative file path handling in Node.js ES modules

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James Nash on the social intertubes

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Please note that I probably won’t follow / add / whatever you back automatically unless I actually know you from meatspace! Call me old-skool if you like, but I don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry seeing photos of me on a night out! :-P

Oh yeah, incase you’re wondering, I’ve not bothered with MySpace since I have a perfectly good "space" here (and one that doesn’t look like someone barfed all over your browser either)!

About James Nash’s site

The design you see before you now was released in 2009. It was the first major re-design of this site since this website launched in 2002. I lovingly hand-coded all the XHTML and CSS. All the graphicswere made in GIMP.

Originally, there was (very simple) a back-end written in PHP and it was all hosted on my own webserver . However, as of June 2020 that setup has been replaced with an 11ty-powered static site build that gets deployed via Netlify.

James Nash’s Work

I am currently the tech lead for Investec’s design system. I previously worked in various design system, UX and software dev roles at a variety of companies. I live at the intersection of UX and technology and help people from each of those disciplines better collaborate.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, everything I say and write on this site and elsewhere online is my own, personal opinion and in no way represents the views of my past or present employers!

To network professionally, please check out my: LinkedIn profile. Please note that I usually only accept people as a new contact if I’ve actually met them in real life!

Shameless book plug

By the way, on the (increasingly unlikely) off chance that you’re into developing multimedia apps for Symbian you may find this book useful:

• Multimedia on Symbian OS

I wrote one of the chapters for it, so it must be good! ;-)

Obligatory badges

No self-respecting geek’s site would be complete without an assortment of badges, banners and obscure codes so here are mine:

• James Nash’s FOAF file (?)
• XFN Friendly
• Valid XHTML 1.0

—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—– Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:— a+ C++$ UL P++ L+++ E W+++ N o? K? w O? M++ V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5? X+ R tv+ DI++ D+ G e+++ h+ r++ y? ——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——