In 2016, I worked with the lead authors to publish the book *Sprint*, which is a cookbook for running a design process.

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```

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?\
\
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, *Sprint* is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.

Sprint Book

I drew the original marker board sketch of the logo, which Stephen Desroches and Jon Hicks crafted into the beautiful logo that we all know and love.

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```

As Jon Hicks described [on his blog](https://hicks.design/journal/firefox-logo):\
\
*Shortly before Christmas, I had an email from a chap called Steven Garrity, who works for [Silverorange](http://www.silverorange.com/), and runs a blog called [‘Acts of Volition’](http://www.actsofvolition.com/), in which he publishes a [radio show](http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/february/actsofvolition) on regular basis. (really worth a listen BTW). He asked if I would like to join a recently created Mozilla branding team, with the immediate aim of producing a new logo identity for the Firebird browser, soon to be renamed firefox (Ben Goodger has written up the [reasons and process for the name change](http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/archives/week_2004_02_08.shtml#000549)). The branding team came into being after Steven wrote an [article recommending changes to Mozilla’s existing branding](http://actsofvolition.com/steven/mozillabranding/). I jumped at the chance, and today Firefox 0.8 is finally released, and the work is no longer confidential.*

*Over Christmas (thanks Steven!) ideas and concepts were put forward. The timescales were tight (the design would chosen 2nd January), and the concept difficult to illustrate. A firefox is actually a cute red panda, but it didn’t really conjure up the right imagery. The only concept I had done that I felt happy with was this, inspired by seeing a Japanese brush painting of a fox:*

*The final chosen design was a concept from [Daniel Burka](http://deltatangobravo.com/authors/dburka) and sketched by [Stephen Desroches](http://newrecruit.org/authors/stephen), which I then rendered using Fireworks MX. I’ve been using Fireworks over Illustrator or Photoshop for icon design as I love the way I can work in vectors and see the result in pixels, rather than smooth vectors. The updated gradient tools in MX make this possible too.*

Firefox branding

[Simple](https://www.simple.org/) is fast, free software for clinicians to manage patients with hypertension. I lead product and design on this product from the tech team at [Resolve to Save Lives](https://resolvetosavelives.org/). Today, Simple is used in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to help large-scale health programs manage almost a million patients with hypertension.

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```

Simple.org

Health Icons is a volunteer effort to create a ‘global good’ for health projects all over the world. These icons are available in the public domain for use in any type of project.

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```

Health icons

<https://awards.ixda.org/projects/simple>

IxDA "Interaction Awards" Best in Show

Kevin, Caleb, and I created Zero as a side project back in 2016. Kevin got really into the science of intermittent or circadian rhythm fasting and we decided to build a simple application to support people who were trying to fast.

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```

Zero Fasting

In 2007-2008, Leah Culver, Kevin Rose, and I started a social network called Pownce. I was the head of all things design. We sold Pownce to Six Apart in 2008.

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```

Pownce

Product, design, brand

The Webby Awards

Digg won several Webbies while I was director of design.

Crunchies

Digg won "Best user-generated content site" at the first Crunchies in 2007.

IxD Best in Show

The Simple project won "Best in Show" at the Interaction Awards at the IxD annual conference in Milan in 2020.

In 2023, we published an article about Simple and our strategies for success in the British Medical Journal: Informatics.

BMJ Article about Simple

I lead product and design on this open source project to support large-scale hypertension programs in low- and middle-income countries.

Simple

I co-authored the book Sprint with Michael Margolis, Braden Kowitz, John Zeratsky, and Jake Knapp.

As part of the Mozilla Visual Identity Team of volunteers, we created the now-iconic brand for Firefox.

I founded an open source project to create vector icons for use in health projects all over the world.

Kevin Rose and I created this fasting app as a side project in 2016. It is now run as a real startup by our friend Mike Maser.

Zero

Kevin, Leah, and I founded Pownce as a social network for sharing media with friends.

Helping brand and design the website for ProjectN95, the not-for-profit national clearinghouse for personal protective equipment and COVID-19 tests

Designer

I am on the board of Laboratoria, which empowers women who dream of a better future to start and grow a transformative career in technology.

Board Member

I started Health icons as a volunteer group of designers and developers creating free, open-source icons for medical projects.

Founder

I worked with Stephen Desroches, Steve Horlander, Jon Hicks, Steven Garrity and others to develop the brands for Firefox and Thunderbird. I also designed the Mozilla.org website at that time.

Daniel Burka

Projects

Side Projects

Awards

Work Experience

Volunteering

Contact