eric eriksson 🇵🇸

eric eriksson 🇵🇸

product designer in new york city, he/him

Work Experience

2021 — 2024
NYC

built the mobile apps. scaled the design team from 1-20+. established the design culture.

2019 — 2021
2018 — 2019
2017 — 2018
2014 — 2018
San Francisco, CA
2011 — 2014
Stockholm, Sweden

Projects

2020

After Hoyd (tagged) designed the first iterations of the Squarespace Commerce App, I took over and helped launch the Point of Sale features as well as the iPad version.

2017

Designed comments, comment replies, and the in-feed comment composer, enabling people to have meaningful conversations around the content they engage with on Instagram. Researched and designed various safety and anti-bullying filters.

2016

Researched, pitched, designed, tested, and contributed code to the first and several subsequent iterations of the Facebook Fundraising Platform. If you've ever seen, been invited to, donated to, or started a fundraiser on Facebook, I helped make that possible. As of Febuary 2020, this platform has surpassed $3 billion in funds raised for charities and non-profits.

2015

Designed and contributed code to a global donation campaign for the benefit of emergency workers in the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake in April, 2015. By the end of the campaign, we had raised more than $17 million dollars from 752,000+ people in 153 countries. In a week.

2014

Designed the first free (ad-supported, highly-restricted) version of Spotify's mobile app. A complex landscape of problems to solve, chief among which was how to create an enjoyable music experience while following the many, many rules set forth by the labels. This launch was and still is regarded as the one that solidified Spotify's dominance of the streaming music market — when no other company offered free, ad-supported, on-demand music.

Education

2010 — 2012
Bachelor, Advertising & PR at Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
2007 — 2010
B.Sc., IT & Interaction Design at Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Writing

2014

A primer on the calling that is Product Design. Written in 2014 when it was not entirely well-known. Somewhat dated, but still holds up!

Speaking

2018
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

My first, and to date, only talk given at a design conference. Was a fun experience but I think I prefer the role of attentive audience.

Teams

Past
Ramp Design