Maggie Appleton
Designer and illustrator; researches how AI changes software engineering at GitHub Next.
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- Maggie Appleton is a designer, anthropologist and developer who makes illustrated essays about programming and culture on her digital garden, maggieappleton.com.
- She joined GitHub Next as a staff research engineer in October 2025.
- Before that she was founding product designer at Elicit from 2022 to 2024 and an illustrator and designer at Egghead from 2016 to 2021.
Key facts
- GitHub Next
- Staff research engineer, from October 2025 (as of November 2026)1
- Before
- Normally, lead design engineer, July 2024 to January 2025; Elicit, founding product designer, June 2022 to June 2024; HASH, head of design, October 2021 to July 2022; Egghead, illustrator, art director and UX designer, April 2016 to September 20211
- Education
- Undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology1
- From
- London; grew up in international schools in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore1
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