Hey y’all! Can we get an #introductions thread going? (Also, search doesn’t work for posts so I couldn’t scroll far back to see if any was created) There’s many new and familiar faces, and it’s cool to see so many great types of designers all together. Share some stuff!
👋 I’m Matt, currently based in LA via Portland via SF. I’m a developer/designer and really love bringing delight and magic to products I work on. Was a design technologist at Medium for > 5 years, but for the past year have been doing freelance for smaller teams. Love 0->1.
Nice! I work with a bunch of DTs at eBay, they’re focused on a mix of tooling and product. Did you lean more towards one or the other? I would consider myself in that bucket as well, but I’m hired on as a designer
Oh nice! Did mostly product stuff, but my internal side hustle was building figma plugins and other random tooling for fun. 🙂 Sometimes acting solely as a designer, sometimes engineer, sometimes prototyper. I like the flexibility and variability of going between the roles