Dan Hollick

@DanHollick

THE EXPLAINER

Position	Design Engineer
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Salary	48,300 followers
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Design engineer at Cursor, previously Tailwind and Raycast. Writing Making Software, a book on how the machinery under your interface actually works — rendering, colour, compression.

Often drafted with

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  Flora Guo@floguo
  Design Engineer

  Founding design engineer at Paradigm, working on agentic interfaces and co-authoring the company's rebrand.

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  Pablo Stanley@pablostanley
  Product Designer

  Drew Humaaans and Open Peeps, the modular illustration libraries that ended up in half the startup landing pages on the internet.

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  Aakanksha Mirdha@mirdhaaakanksha
  Product Designer

  Designed for Uber and Cruise before Playground AI, and now works independently as design lead for early-stage startups.

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