Matt Pringle: Principal Product Designer | Specializing in Design Systems & Product Design. With a passion for crafting seamless user experiences, Matt Pringle brings expertise in creating innovative design systems and product designs that resonate. 

Matt Pringle | Principal Product Designer & Design Systems Specialist

The portfolio of Matt Pringle. Creative Director and Product designer. Currently at ONE.app.

Matt Pringle: Creative Director & Product Designer

My favorite keyboard at the moment
Mode Sixty Five
Tomorrow keycaps
Copper accent
Aluminum plate 
No foam

An MVP isn’t about the least you can do—it’s about the one thing you must do to make an impact.

Design debt compounds. Get the tedious tasks done early: name your layers, create components, and use auto layout. Some people say this kills creativity, but if you zoom out and consider the entire project lifespan, doing these things early saves a lot of time and stress.

Working at a remote company, whenever someone says “let’s take this offline” in a meeting my immediate thought is, “cool, I didn’t want to talk about this anymore either.”

🔍 Hiring insights: As I sift through numerous portfolios for my team, here are key tips missing in many.

Possibly a hot take, but using AI generation in apps like Figma and Framer for full-screen designs just feels like a slower way of browsing template galleries like how you’d look for Wordpress templates on ThemeForest.

I recently gave my portfolio a small facelift and a new approach. I decided to make it like an instagram feed, a constant stream of dopamine. Case studies are important but save them for the interview. Recruiters and hiring managers don’t read them. Www.prings.design

Whenever I see someone’s LinkedIn with “ex-(company)” I just think that person was fired from that company.

Design systems don’t kill creativity. They’re meant to be a toolkit not a rule book.

Mode encore with X-ray keycaps. My favorite build at the moment.

Always feels good to clean the workspace up.

Recently rebuilt my portfolio in framer. Really loving the ease of use with this tool.
www.prings.design

Get 100 reps. Your first 100 attempts at anything new will suck, but the progress from 1 to 101 will be monumental.

In today’s job market, applying to loads of LinkedIn job posts is like playing the lottery. Often, no one even sees your application due to automated software filters. Networking is key for job seekers in 2024.

🧵 Every product feature request tells a story. But most of the time, it’s a rough draft. Here’s how to take those vague ideas and turn them into meaningful solutions.

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