Square Design Summit
Design Technologist
The Square Design Summit is Square's annual internal conference bringing together the design community across the company. For the 2023 event, I volunteered to lead front-end development on the conference microsite alongside another Design Technologist, building a custom experience that doubled as both a marketing brochure and a functional event hub. I architected the site using vanilla JavaScript, WebGL, and Contentful, with content hosted in a Google Spreadsheet and pulled into Contentful so the strategy team could manage copy in a familiar format without juggling multiple sources of truth.
A WebGL microsite for Square's design community
The site featured a dynamic GLSL shader with section-based theming, powered by a custom event bus that synced scroll position with shader state in real time using GSAP ScrollTrigger. I also built a dynamic schedule that converted Unix timestamps into the user's local time and sequentially ordered sessions by start time and day, removing timezone friction for a globally distributed audience.
The WebGL shader background drew inspiration from probability density plots of hydrogen atoms, translating a scientific visual language into an ambient, interactive backdrop for the event.
The experience left the community inspired and showcased what Design Technologists could deliver when given creative ownership over a high-visibility internal moment.
A minimal interaction and a link to the full site prototype can be found below.