Design Staff is dedicated to helping startups design great products. We’re a community of designers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who have helped build some of the products you probably use everyday.
We write for both entrepreneurs and designers. For entrepreneurs, we’ll be discussing how to do great product design at your company: talking to users, building a design team, creating a design culture, using design process, and collaborating with designers. For designers, we’ll share the lessons we’ve learned along the way about practicing design at early-stage companies.
If you’d like us to write about a specific topic or answer a question about design at startups, please let us know: topics@designstaff.org
Contributors
Design Staff aims to brings together some of the best designers, researchers, product managers, and entrepreneurs in the startup ecosystem. Some of us write weekly while other contribute occasionally. We’ll be adding more writers over the next few months. Stay tuned — we’re just getting started.
Braden Kowitz
Design Partner, Google Ventures
Jake Knapp
Design Partner, Google Ventures
John Zeratsky
Design Partner, Google Ventures
Michael Margolis
UX Research Partner, Google Ventures
Aaron Sedley
UX Researcher, Google
Chad Thornton
Designer, Airbnb
Christen Coomer
Designer, Valve
Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge
UX Researcher, Twitter
Enrique Allen
Founding member, Designer Fund & 500 Startups
Henry Tsai
Head of UX, Astrid
Jenna Bilotta
Founder, Avocado Software
Kerry Rodden
Quantitative UX Researcher, YouTube
Nina Mehta
Designer, Twilio
Matt Shobe
Chief Design Officer, BigDoor
Michelle Broderick
Strategy & Marketing, Uber
Sasha Lubomirsky
UX Researcher, Airbnb
Sean McBride
Web Developer, Adobe Typekit
Joshua Porter
Director of UX, HubSpot
Jonathan Bruck
Juggler, Pocket
Articles posted on Design Staff are the personal views of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views, positions or attitudes of their employer.
Thanks
Design Staff is edited and published by the Google Ventures Design Studio. Thanks to Google Ventures for supporting our efforts to build a community around startups and design. That support helps make this blog possible.
