Jonas Downey

Jonas Downey

Designer in Chicago, USA, he/him

About

Hello! My name is Jonas. Currently I'm a Product Design Manager at Figma. I'm also the co-creator of a friendly and useful weather app Hello Weather.

Previously I led design teams at Twitter and Basecamp, where I helped invent HEY email.

I frequently write about product design, productivity, work, and life. You can check that out on my website, or sign up for my newsletter to get updates directly.

Work Experience

2019 — 2021
Head of Design at Basecamp
2011 — 2019
Designer at Basecamp
2006 — 2011
Webmaster at Argonne National Laboratory

Education

2001 — 2005
MFA, New Media at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1997 — 2001
B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contact

Website
Twitter

Teams

Current
Figma Design