Wildcard
The seventh slot takes anybody, and it's where every draft gets interesting. Spend the last of your cap on a second whale, grab the best bargain still on the bench, or pick your favorite kid and refuse to apologize. Every player in the yard is eligible for this seat. The arguments are the point.
Real hiring has a wildcard slot too. It's the generalist: the design engineer who also writes, the brand designer with product instincts, the person no job description predicted who raises the whole team's ceiling anyway. Plenty of early-stage companies run their entire design org on one good wildcard. If you're reading this page for a real team, you already know you're not filling a role. You're looking for the kid you'd start a company with.
Free agents: 178 available
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Julie Zhuo@joulee
Design LeaderWent from intern to VP of design at Facebook across thirteen years, then wrote the book most new managers get handed.
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Soren Iverson@soren_iverson
Design LeaderDesigner behind the daily unhinged app concepts and co-creator of Stompers, the step counter where friends can hit each other with cartoon…
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Fons Mans@FonsMans
Brand DesignerFounded Offgrid, a Dutch brand studio whose client list reads like a tour of your subscriptions: Lovable, Intercom, Ramp.
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Tatiana Tsiguleva@ciguleva
Brand DesignerPerplexity's first creative ambassador and a prolific AI-art experimenter, turning curiosity into entire visual worlds.
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Benji Taylor@benjitaylor
Design LeaderHead of design at X, which makes him the man sanding down a decade of accumulated design debt one screen at a time.
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Meng To@MengTo
Design EngineerFounded Design+Code, which has spent a decade teaching designers to code and developers to design.
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Dann Petty@DannPetty
Product DesignerFounding product designer at Quiver AI, and before that the freelancer's freelancer — Epicurrence, the design retreat, was his.
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Rogie King@rogie
Product DesignerProduct designer at Figma behind Draw and Shaders, plus a prolific run of plugins that do things Figma never planned for.
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Brett Williams@BrettFromDJ
Product DesignerBuilt a one-man design studio past seven figures by charging a flat monthly fee and never hiring anyone.
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Jordan Singer@jsngr
Product DesignerCo-founder and CEO of Mainframe, after Figma, Square and Diagram, which Figma bought.
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Adrian Kuleszo@adriankuleszo
Product DesignerRuns Designme, a design-and-dev partner that has shipped for Cluely, Ethena, Lightdash, and a hundred-odd other startups.
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Jhey Tompkins@jh3yy
Design EngineerBuilds interfaces and then explains them, which he'll tell you is the rarer skill.
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Phi Hoang@apostraphi
Brand DesignerRuns the creative studio at Perplexity and is a large part of why the brand got so much attention from designers.
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Tobias van Schneider@vanschneider
Brand DesignerBuilding mymind, a private digital garden for everything you meant to remember.
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Gavin Nelson@Gavmn
Product DesignerInteraction designer at OpenAI working on ChatGPT voice and CarPlay.
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Brad Frost@brad_frost
Design EngineerWrote Atomic Design, which is why your components are called atoms and molecules and why someone on your team is still arguing about what…
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James McDonald@jamesm
Web DesignerRuns Wireframe, a studio promising world-class visual design in weeks rather than months, after staff design stints at Clerk and Tailwind.
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Sebastiaan de With@sdw
Product DesignerCo-founded Lux and designed Halide, the camera app that won an Apple Design Award by making a phone behave like a proper camera.
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Escha@eschadiol
Product DesignerWorks across product and design at Perplexity and music and operations for Noalia, after Daylight, Descript, and OpenTable.
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Pablo Stanley@pablostanley
Product DesignerDrew Humaaans and Open Peeps, the modular illustration libraries that ended up in half the startup landing pages on the internet.
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Soleio@soleio
Design LeaderAn early Facebook designer who went on to Dropbox, now an angel investor.
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Ammaar Reshi@ammaar
Design LeaderLeads product and design for Google AI Studio, where he rebuilt the thing from the ground up and shipped its vibe-coding experience.
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Rauno Freiberg@raunofreiberg
Product DesignerDesigner at Vercel and author of Devouring Details, an obsessive catalogue of interface micro-craft that has quietly become required…
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Ben South@bnj
Product DesignerBuilding Variant, after a VP run at Postmates and two companies that got acquired.
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Rasmus Andersson@rsms
Product DesignerDesigned Inter, so a good share of the interfaces you looked at today were set in his typeface.
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Ryo Lu@ryolu_
Product DesignerDesigns at Cursor after early stints at Notion and Stripe, working toward a world where anyone can make software.
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MDS@mds
Design EngineerRuns Shift Nudge, the interface design course a striking number of working designers quietly credit for their eye.
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Andy Allen@asallen
Design LeaderFounded Not Boring Software to put play and craft back into everyday apps, after co-founding FiftyThree and helping make Paper.
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Joey Banks@joeyabanks
Product DesignerBuilds design systems at Baseline for the teams shipping what's next.
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Flora Guo@floguo
Design EngineerFounding design engineer at Paradigm, working on agentic interfaces and co-authoring the company's rebrand.
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Jared Erondu@erondu
Design LeaderHeads design at Span, after running design and marketing at Lattice.
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Luis Ouriach@disco_lu
Product DesignerEx-Figma, where he unveiled Variables on the Config main stage and has been quietly hoping that isn't the career peak.
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Oğuz Yağız Kara@oguzyagizkara
Product DesignerCo-founded Lue Studio, a practice working across product and brand.
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Janum Trivedi@jmtrivedi
Design EngineerDesigner, prototyper, and engineer sitting at the OpenAI and LoveFrom intersection.
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Hannah Ahn@hannah_ahn
Design LeaderHead of design and media at Superpower, a title that bundles product design and content into one job most companies split in two.
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David Hoang@davidhoang
Design LeaderVP of Design at Atlassian by way of Replit, Webflow, and One Medical.
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Daniela Muntyan@daniela_muntyan
Product DesignerProduct designer on Figma's Dev Mode team, by way of Craft Docs.
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Paul Stamatiou@Stammy
Design LeaderHead of Design at Sesame after nine years drawing Twitter’s camera, composer and threads, with a stop co-founding Limitless before Meta…
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Katarina Batina@katarinabatina
Design LeaderVP of Design at Shopify, which means the commerce surfaces a large slice of the internet checks out through eventually run past her.
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Femke van Schoonhoven@femkesvs
Product DesignerDesign lead at Gusto, but better known for the YouTube channel she started in 2019 that has taught 70,000-odd subscribers how to be…
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Nick Chella@nickbakeddesign
Design LeaderRuns Baked, the product design agency for founders, after Meta, Netflix, and Expa.
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Dan Mall@danmall
Design LeaderRan the design-systems consultancy SuperFriendly for a decade and sold it, wrote the book on making systems scale, and now teaches agency…
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Frank Bach@zendadddy
Product DesignerBuilding at Anthropic, with Instagram, Headspace, DoorDash, and Red Bull behind him.
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T. Costa@tcosta
Product DesignerCo-founded Fey, an investing terminal handsome enough to make finance software feel designed, and sold it to Wealthsimple.
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Evil Rabbit@evilrabbit_
Design LeaderVercel's founding designer since 2016 and now its creative studio director, which makes that severe black-and-white aesthetic something of…
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Maggie Appleton@Mappletons
Design EngineerStaff research engineer at GitHub Next who describes herself as 'actually a designer.' Writes hand-illustrated essays at the intersection…
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Miggi@miggi
Product DesignerFigma's advocate for education, better known as professor figma — teaching the tool to the people who will be taking all of these jobs in…
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Inga Hampton@ingapng
Brand DesignerBrand designer and illustrator at Raycast, working out of Belfast.
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Tim Van Damme@maxvoltar
Product DesignerSoftware designer at Figma, by way of Instagram, Dropbox and Gowalla.
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Jenny Wen@jenny_wen
Design LeaderRedesigned Claude and set the vision for Cowork at Anthropic, then left this July to run design at Cursor.
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Josh Puckett@joshpuckett
Design LeaderLed design at Dropbox, Wealthfront and Groupon before co-founding Iteration.
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Katie Dill@lil_dill
Design LeaderHead of Design at Stripe, from checkout flows to the Stripe Press hardcovers on your shelf.
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Pranathi Peri@pranathiperii
Product DesignerDesigns Claude Code at Anthropic, which means designing a terminal, which is a genuinely strange brief.
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Grace Walker@graceongrid
Design LeaderCreative director at Spellbook after years as a Webflow-wielding independent in Calgary.
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Maxim Leyzerovich@round
Product DesignerDesigns at Flora and teaches on SVA's MFA program, which makes him one of the few people here grading the next wave instead of just…
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Michael Flarup@flarup
Brand DesignerRuns Northplay and Pixelresort out of Copenhagen, and drew a good share of the icons already on your home screen.
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Claudio Guglieri@claudioguglieri
Brand DesignerIndependent now, after art-directing Fluent at Microsoft and a long run at Fantasy.
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Jamey Gannon@jameygannon
Brand DesignerBrand designer running rapid-fire sprints for early-stage tech and CPG out of Brooklyn, posting all the while as 'techbimbo.' Also founded…
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Jason Yuan@jasonyuan
Product DesignerDesigned MercuryOS which landed him a role at everybody's favorite fruit company.
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Nick Pattison@thenickpattison
Brand DesignerRuns Primary, where a rebrand takes two weeks rather than two quarters.
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Cory Watilo@watilo
Product DesignerLead designer at PostHog, where he owns the entire website and calls himself the webmaster without irony.
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Adanna O.@Adxnna
Product DesignerToronto product designer, illustrator, and icon designer with more than a decade in illustration and a special affection for design systems.
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Finn McKenty@thefinnmckenty
Design LeaderMarketer, designer, and fractional CMO at Brotege after a 750,000-subscriber run as The Punk Rock MBA.
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Raphael Schaad@raphaelschaad
Product DesignerSwiss designer and MIT engineer who built Cron and sold it to Notion.
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Aakanksha Mirdha@mirdhaaakanksha
Product DesignerDesigned for Uber and Cruise before Playground AI, and now works independently as design lead for early-stage startups.
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Joshua Guo@jshguo
Product DesignerDesign engineer and V2SPACE founder building design systems, visualizations, Figma tools, and Framer components.
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Rafa el Conde@rafahari
Product DesignerDesign Engineer at Retro and longtime designer-maker of small, joyful apps.
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Mike Smith@mikesmith187
Brand DesignerRuns Smith & Diction out of Philadelphia, a small studio with a big appetite for lettering and identity work.
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Danny Trinh@dtrinh
Design LeaderDirector of product design at Meta, after building social products at Snap, Zenly, Sensei, Free, Path, and Digg.
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Ben Fryc@benfryc
Brand Designer3D artist, motion designer, and creative at Framer, with work for OpenAI, Figma, Google, Wealthsimple, and Loom.
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John Pham@JohnPhamous
Design EngineerAt Vercel by day and an angel investor the rest of the time, working out of Seattle.
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Aleks@aleksliving
Product DesignerWorks on AI at Figma, and holds that the only thing that matters is the output — sorry, process bros.
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Steve Lauda@stevelauda_
Design LeaderRuns Blissful Studio, doing full-stack design and development for early-stage companies from Singapore.
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Jorn van Dijk@jornvandijk
Design LeaderCo-founded Framer and still runs it, with Festina alongside.
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Jessica Strelioff@jstrelioff
Design LeaderBrand designer and creative director leading Goodside, the independent Austin studio working across strategy, identity, art direction,…
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Marisa@meshtimes_
Product DesignerDesigns soulful technology and vlogs the whole process, with a particular weakness for little gadgets, disposable cameras, and making the…
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Stephen Haney@stephenhaney
Design EngineerCEO of Paper, where the canvas is real HTML and CSS instead of a picture of it.
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Mariana Castilho@mrncst
Product DesignerDoes software design and code at poolside, previously Vercel, v0, and Pierre.
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Daniel Destefanis@daniel__designs
Product DesignerProduct designer at Anthropic by way of Figma and Discord, working out of Chicago.
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Lucas Crespo@lucas__crespo
Brand DesignerDescribes the job as putting lipstick on capitalism, which after creative directing at Every, VML and BBDO New York he has more than earned…
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Drew Wilson@drewwilson
Design LeaderFounder of Opacity and the person behind ValioCon, the conference.
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Adam Whitcroft@AdamWhitcroft
Product DesignerDesigns at Owner, but a generation of developers knows him for Climacons and Batch — the free icon sets that ended up in a decent slice of…
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Alex Aperios@AlexAperios
Design LeaderCreative director behind Aperios Design, giving founder-led companies the identity upgrade they need after the first one stops fitting.
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Mery Kaftar@merycodes
Design EngineerDesign engineer at Vercel who redesigned the dashboard navigation everyone's been resizing since February.
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Wes Bancroft@WesleyBancroft
Design LeaderRuns the brand studio Lunour and talks about identity work alongside life as a dad of nine.
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Jordan Jenkins@jkane
Design LeaderWelsh designer and director, founder of Outland and builder of Tagteam.
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Dan Holdsworth@pizzaboy
Brand DesignerBrand identity and design systems for dev tools and AI startups — CodeRabbit, Zed, Hacktron.
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Kevin Twohy@kevintwohy
Product DesignerRuns a one-man studio doing zero-to-one work for, in his words, 'ambitious toys and serious business.' The range checks out: the NYT audio…
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Gabriel Valdivia@gabrielvaldivia
Product DesignerBills himself as 'design co-founder as a service,' embedding with startups like Daylight and Slingshot AI.
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Nikolas Klein@nikolasklein
Product DesignerDesigned at Figma and then defected to product management, a betrayal this bench has collectively decided to forgive, because we do still…
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Lee Black@mrblackstudio
Design LeaderDüsseldorf designer with 25-plus years in the work, running 1042 Studio and a small constellation of tools, components, guidelines, and…
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Mackenzie Child@mackenziechild
Web DesignerDesigner by way of Webflow, Gumroad and Podia, and the man behind Flowmingo — the Webflow course whose pink flamingo mascot taught a…
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Charlota Blunarova@0xCharlota
Brand DesignerBrand designer for tech startups out of Prague, with a niche list specific enough to count as a personality: AI, creative tools,…
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Shane Levine@theShaneLevine
Design LeaderFounder of Turbo, the Brooklyn product design studio that stays with startups for the long haul.
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Jayneil Dalal@jayneil
Product DesignerRuns Sneak Peek, documenting the real workflows, files, and portfolio rituals behind top designers rather than settling for the polished…
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Kumail Nanji@kumailnanji
Product DesignerDesigns at Monogram after a run at Airbnb — a fairly direct route from the world's most photographed spare rooms to whatever AI is doing…
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Henry Modisett@henrymodis
Design LeaderFormer VP of design at Perplexity, and its founding designer.
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Tom Johnson@tomjohndesign
Product DesignerStaff product designer on v0 at Vercel after founding design at Basedash.
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Darshan Gajara@WeirdoWizard
Product DesignerBerlin-and-Mumbai designer and maker behind Product Disrupt, With a View, and Beanpresso.
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Rob Hope@robhope
Web DesignerRuns One Page Love, a long-running archive of every good single-page site on the web, plus the Yo podcast.
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Tuhin Kumar@tuhin
Product DesignerApple, Airbnb, Facebook, Clara and Luma Labs — all filed under “past lives” on his own profile.
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Meaghan Choi@meaghaneschoi
Design LeaderLeads design for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic — the agent surfaces, not the chat window.
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Amy Hood@amyhoodlum
Brand DesignerCo-founded Hoodzpah, doing brand identity and type design out of Anaheim, and co-wrote "Freelance, and Business, and Stuff" for everyone…
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Derek Briggs@PixelJanitor
Design EngineerDesign and code at Shopify, previously Clerk, and an angel investor on the side.
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Andy Orsow@andyorsow
Brand DesignerMakes hype videos at Framer and describes the job as a design-motion-marketing chimera.
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Beni Issen@ben_issen
Product DesignerFounding designer at Rox, and a self-described designer of machines — which is a more honest job title than most of the ones on this bench.
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Alvish Baldha@alvishbaldha
Product DesignerFounding designer at Operate, by way of Clerk and Kosh Money.
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Rachel How@rachelhxw
Product DesignerDesigner and builder making tech feel more human, with 270,000 YouTube subscribers watching her do it — many times the audience she has…
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Justin Farrugia@justinmfarrugia
Product DesignerDesigner behind Curated Supply and CMD Supply, which between them amount to a standing argument that taste is a thing you can ship rather…
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Marvin Schwaibold@MSchwaibold
Design LeaderCo-founded Molly, sold it to Shopify, and the whole team became the in-house Product Design Studio.
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Seb Cornelius@SebCornelius
Design LeaderIndependent London designer and creative director with more than a decade across product, identity, and digital work.
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Dmytro@pqoqubbw
Design EngineerDesign engineer at Mintlify creating polished interface systems and teaching the invisible details that make products feel right.
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Nev Flynn@NevFlynn
Design LeaderLeads design and engineering at ElevenLabs, by way of Evervault, whose site designers kept reverse-engineering rather than just asking him…
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Mackey Saturday@saturday
Brand DesignerIdentity design out of New York, for the world — which is the whole of his bio and, honestly, enough.
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Christine Røde@chrstnerode
Product DesignerDesigns Dia at The Browser Company, having landed in London by way of Oslo and San Francisco.
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Bradley Ziffer@bradleyziffer
Product DesignerBuilding at Ramp, after Antimetal, Daylight and Acorns — a clean sweep of everywhere your money goes.
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Ian Silber@iansilber
Design LeaderHead of Product Design at OpenAI after eight years shaping Instagram and a stint at the game studio OpenAI bought.
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Vincent van der Meulen@vinvan
Design EngineerDutch-born design engineer and Mainframe co-founder turning agent work into watchable video recaps.
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Riley Jones@rileyj_s
Brand DesignerFreelance brand designer in Chattanooga, crafting and nourishing identities for startups.
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Jesse Showalter@imjesseshow
Design LeaderRuns Good Fight Creative and Design Champs after teaching a generation of designers through hundreds of YouTube lessons.
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Adrián Mato@adrianmg
Design LeaderDesign director on Copilot at GitHub, by way of Spain, the UK and the US.
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Joe Bell@joebell_
Design EngineerDesign engineer at Operate, where the job title he lists is defence against the dark arts.
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Charlie Deets@charliedeets
Product DesignerDesigns Dia at The Browser Company, having come through Apple, WhatsApp and Facebook first.
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Adrien Griveau@Griveau
Product DesignerFounding designer at Linear, a product arranged entirely around never touching your mouse — and a house style a good share of the tools you…
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Ryan Miyoshi@ryry__mimi
Design LeaderHead of design at Column, a bank built for developers — which means the interface has to stay completely calm while it moves other people's…
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Jaytel@Jaytel
Product DesignerDesign Studio at Shopify, after co-founding a company Shopify bought and doing design at Apple before that.
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Zeh Fernandes@zehf
Design EngineerHands-on head of design at Resend, and four World Cups deep into turning match data into generative posters — chrono-grids, brush strokes…
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Chloe Park@chloepark
Wildcardhead of product & design @MagicPathAI • pre-AI and not gen z @vectorDAO previously Coinbase, Lyft, Facebook, OpenTable
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Lauren LoPrete@laurenloprete
Brand DesignerHead of design foundations at Mercury, after leading design systems at Dropbox and Cash App.
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Grace Ling@gracepace_
Design LeaderFounder of Design Buddies, the global community she started as a student and grew past 150,000 members.
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Pauline Wee@pau_wee_
Product DesignerNew York designer-engineer and host of New Interfaces, a show about the people shaping how humans and computers meet.
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Roman Tesliuk@RomaTesla
Product DesignerDesigns at ElevenLabs out of Berlin and apparently cannot stop shipping side projects: Daily Dispatch, Portal, App Stacks, and Droppable at…
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Yann-Edern Gillet@yannglt
Product DesignerSoftware designer at Linear in Paris, shaping product UI, systems, and developer experience.
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Eve Bouffard@eve_bouff
Design LeaderHead of design at Y Combinator — or head of fun, going by the X bio, which is the kind of edit only someone genuinely good at the first job…
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Ryan Gilbert@rjgilbert
Design LeaderCreator of Workspaces, the weekly archive that has opened more than 500 real home offices to the internet — and photographed a surprising…
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Siddharth@itsiddharth_
Product DesignerLanded at Superpower through the Dive Talent Network after product work on Robinhood Gold and three and a half years at CRED.
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Joel Miller@_joelmllr
Product DesignerProduct designer at Granola, after Figma — which means he now designs the thing that remembers your meeting so you are free to not listen…
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Resham Khanna@Reshusaur
Product DesignerSan Francisco product designer whose handle has been doing dinosaur duty since 2016.
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Joel Lewenstein@joellewenstein
Design LeaderHead of design at Anthropic, which means owning the interface a great many people now talk to more often than they talk to some of their…
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Darrin Henein@darrinhenein
Design LeaderChief Design Officer at Owner, previously VP of Design at Shopify.
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Lele Zhang@CherrilynnZ
Product DesignerProduct designer at Tolans after studying psychology at Berkeley and working with Every and Write with Parallel.
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George Hastings@soulegit
Design LeaderDesign engineer with fourteen-plus years across product and agency work at IDEO and AREA 17, now building Unicorn Studio and the color tool…
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Loredana Crisan@loredanacrisan
Design LeaderStarted piano at seven in Bucharest, taught by her mother, and trained as a classical musician before design.
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Justin Rands@jayrizpop
Brand DesignerBrand engineer at Clay, previously Intercom, Oyster, and Blend.
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Ioana Teleanu@ioana_teleanu
Design LeaderPatent-holding AI and product designer documenting AI Design OS in public, after Miro and UiPath.
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Gui Seiz@guiseiz
Design LeaderDesign director for AI at Figma, Portuguese, and self-described as calm sad boi tinkering — which is the most honest job description…
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Emily Campbell@elou
Design LeaderVP of Design at HackerRank and creator of Shape of AI, the living catalog that names the patterns behind human-centered AI.
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Levi Jones@Levidjones
Product DesignerDesigner in Pasadena, a decade into shaping product from the idea down to the last detail, and currently too busy shipping client work at…
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The Undesigner@ninepixelgrid
Brand DesignerFull-stack designer who made the PostHog website and works with Watilo.
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Kyle Barber@kbarber
Product DesignerRidd's cofounder at Inflight, by way of Meta, Tinder and Airchat.
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Matt Sellers@msllrs
Product DesignerTwenty years deep in design systems and custom iconography, now doing interface work at Lovable and Reshaped.
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Maheen Sohail@maheen_sohail
Product DesignerWorks on AI at Instagram, after Meta's Super Intelligence Labs, and teaches a course on becoming an AI product designer — a job title that…
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Greg Huntoon@GregHuntoon
Product DesignerRuns advocacy for Figma across North America, eats mostly plants, and is Ridd's arch nemesis in fantasy football — a rivalry that has…
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Amy Lima@amylimabean
Product DesignerDesigner advocate at Figma, by way of Duolingo, Amazon Music and Pinterest, and founder of Diversify Design.
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Pooja Jadav@poojadav
Brand DesignerMumbai-born visual designer and product illustrator in Berlin, currently looking for her next opportunity.
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Eugene Fedorenko@efedorenko
Product DesignerWrites Figmalion, the newsletter an alarming number of designers use as their actual Figma release notes.
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Kevin Wong@kvwong
Design LeaderVP of Design at Webflow, steering its AI-native web vision after leading design at Messenger and Airbnb.
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Liam Matteson@liammatteson
Product DesignerDesign lead at Browserbase building Director, after product work at Copilot Money, Vanta, Upperstudy, and Halftone Digital.
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ÌníOlúwa Abíódún@IniAbiodun
Product DesignerLawyer-turned-product designer at AirOps making interfaces behave in court.
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Polly D'Arcy@pollyinthedart
Design LeaderVP of design at Wealthsimple, having gone from individual contributor to VP without ever changing companies — an arc rare enough that Dive…
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Kyle Zantos@kylezantos
Design EngineerDesigner, builder and self-described agentic engineer out of Seattle, shipping under the banner of software as a gift.
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Sara Vienna@sravienna
Design LeaderChief Design Officer at MetaLab, leading research, strategy, product, and brand teams behind products from Slack to Midjourney and Windsurf.
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John Falcone@falcone_design
Product DesignerDouble Diamond makes John the designer mob boss of NYC: he sits down with the city's sharpest designers, asks what they actually think, and…