We're building magical new ways to design products that make design accessible to everyone.

Jordan and Sidd built [Airport](https://airport.community), the best place to discover new TestFlight apps from developers.

* [Figma](https://figma.com)

* [designOS](https://designos.com)

* [Automator](https://automator.design)

* [Prototyper](https://prototyper.design)

### **Web**

We ❤️ Typescript

* React + Next.js

* Tailwind

* GraphQL

* Node + Express + RPC

### **Mobile**

* Swift + SwiftUI

### **Infrastructure / Cloud**

* AWS
* Vercel

Hi 👋🏻

We are an intentionally small company building **a web performance platform** to help create a faster, more equitable internet. We might be a two-person team (for now—we’re hiring!), but we pride ourselves on building thoughtful, easy to use tools with less. 

Calibre has been **bootstrapped** **and** **profitable** since 2017. We value sustainability in growth and the way we work. We keep rethinking how we can create a workplace of the future. Switching to **a four-day workweek** two years ago is just one example.

We believe it’s possible to build a great product and act with integrity, which we aspire to do every day.

We believe in equitable access to what the internet has to offer. But it’s hard to talk about equal access when [nearly half of the websites fail to meet](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/lighthouse-scores-as-predictors-of-page-level-crux-data/2232) the necessary thresholds for core speed and user experience metrics. With each day, websites and services grow more complex and less accessible to a diverse, worldwide audience browsing the web from many contexts and settings.

While Calibre might look like a developer tool, we think anyone can positively impact user experience given the right tools and page speed literacy. That’s why **we’re building a comprehensive platform for teams who want to understand and improve user experience.** We know web performance is a complex space, so we’re focusing on delivering transparent reports that anyone can action.

Here’s a little sneak peek:

**[Try Calibre for free here.](https://calibreapp.com/sign-up)**

Whew, glad you asked! Personal wellbeing is something near and dear to our hearts. After nearing two decades in tech (for both founders), we’re looking to create a more balanced approach to work that’s less demanding and more supportive of people’s lives. **We work to live, not live to work**, is something we live by.

We might be small, but we think carefully about company culture and designing the way we work. Here’s are a handful of policies that support and promote employee wellbeing:

* We [work 4 days a week](https://calibreapp.com/blog/four-day-work-week), at a maximum of 32 hours.

* We have a generous paid annual and sick leave policy.

* We operate on a flexible schedule.

* All parents benefit from 12 weeks of paid leave.

* We have a workspace and co-working stipends to create a perfect environment.

* We run regular 1:1s and team meetings to nurture a sense of belonging.

But we’re just getting started here! 

We [love Figma](https://calibreapp.com/blog/services-we-use) (and organising files). But before we even get there, your old friend, pen and paper.

We rely on resilient and modern technologies. While we value what’s new and coming, we carefully evaluate the potential impact instead of jumping ship to what’s popular.

Right now, we primarily work with **Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Next.js, CSS-in-JS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL and AWS** on top of the web’s foundational technologies (which we have a big appreciation for 💗).

You can find out more on our [about page](https://calibreapp.com/about) or [blog](https://calibreapp.com/blog/category/inside-calibre), where we share how we think about work ([Why We Run a People First Company](https://calibreapp.com/blog/people-first-company) is a good introduction). We also tweet at [@calibreapp](https://twitter.com/calibreapp)!

If you’d like to chat, say hi at [hello@calibreapp.com](http://mailto:hello@calibreapp.com). For open roles, head to the [Careers page](https://calibreapp.com/careers) or drop us a line at [careers@calibreapp.com](http://mailto:careers@calibreapp.com). 👋🏻

👋 Hi, we’re the Product Design & Research team here at Stash! Together, we cover product design, information architecture, visual design, design systems, content design, insights and strategy (UXR), and design operations. 

Although today we’re currently spread out across the US, at Stash you can work remotely from anywhere in the US or UK, or from one of our office spaces.

Meet some of our team members below:

While our company mission defines our purpose, our design team philosophy puts it into perspective so that every  team member can apply it to their day-to-day work.

Our mission: Investing for the 99%. Help everyday Americans invest and build wealth.\
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Our philosophy: Design for the 99%. Create experiences for everyday people that are useful every day.

Weekly, we have:

* Stand Up, to find out what each person on the team is working on, what’s coming up, any support needed and available time to give.

* Product Design Jam, a space for the to lead a jam on work that impacts the larger team. Topics range from learning about a new tool to figuring out what each other’s language of appreciation is at work.

Monthly, we have:

* Creative Community, to share and discuss ideas that inspire us in connection to the monthly theme.

* Deep Dives, to hear guest speakers from company leadership and dive deep into their team, work, and goals.

Quarterly, we have:

* All Hands, to hear updates from design leadership, dive deep into relevant topics, and ask questions.

We also understand that we’re not always going to get it right the first time, and continue to look for ways to improve. Transparent and open communication is very important to our team, and we hold regular feedback sessions to make sure we’re moving in the right direction. The bar is progress!

It helps that we have a team of genuinely kind, smart, amazing people ❤️ While we do really like spending time together, working remotely means that we have to be more intentional about creating those moments, informal or not. There’s no water cooler to congregate around, so we’ll post something in our #product-design-random channel. We can’t high five in person, so we’ll use high fives or fire reactions in Figjam. If we want to have a quick chat with somebody, we’ll huddle on Slack. Needless to say, remote life has given us the opportunity to strengthen our bonds in new and different ways. I mean, can you actually say you know your coworkers well if you haven’t seen them put on a costume and a 1920s accent for a virtual murder mystery party?

We. Love. Hackathons. They offer the opportunity to focus on exciting problems and ideas that we don’t always get to address in our day-to-day. Plus, we get to collaborate alongside people we don’t normally work with. It’s super-inclusive and everyone in the company, regardless of function, can join in the fun and creativity. Hacks aren’t limited to software, you can work on problem spaces within any part of the company. If customers or employees can benefit from it, then it's a good hack! At the end, Stashers get to vote on the best hacks in several categories, and we have a panel of judges to determine the winners 🙌

Feel free to message us to learn more our product design team, but you can also read about what it’s like to be a Stasher from these write ups:

* [America’s Best Startup Employers for 2022](https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/?sh=7fef492e2ad7) from Forbes

* [Best Outlook list](https://www.businessinsider.com/small-and-midsize-companies-with-the-best-company-outlook-comparably-2022-3) from Business Insider

* 2022 [Best Places to Work](https://www.builtinnyc.com/companies/best-places-to-work-nyc-2022) and [Best Midsize Places to Work](https://www.builtinnyc.com/companies/best-midsize-places-to-work-nyc-2022) from Built In NYC’s

* [Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs in 2022](https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/top-100-companies-for-remote-jobs-in-2022/) from Flex Jobs

We are 10 humans split across four timezones and two platforms (iOS / Android).

We're currently hiring our second mobile designer, apply using the link above - we'd love to hear from you!

Check out our apps: ✨[www.loom.com/mobile](http://www.loom.com/mobile)✨

* We make it possible for our users to create recordings and quickly close feedback loops with an in-depth viewing/engagement experience, whether at their desks or on the move.

* Without losing sight of the broader Loom experience, we embrace what makes mobile platforms different and solve for mobile user needs.

* We’re motivated by supporting knowledge workers across the world that increasingly rely on mobile devices to get their work done.

* Figma / FigJam

* Occasionally Principle for motion prototypes

* Loom!

* Linear for planning

* Notion for all the docs

### **Our Product Principles**

### 😌 **Effortless** — but not simplistic

> *It's about being simple, intuitive, and direct, yet also smart.*

### 🗿 **Dependable** — but not inflexible

> *It's about being thorough and detailed, robust and dependable, yet also adaptable.*

### **💨 Immediate** — but not thoughtless

> *It's about being quick - like super quick - minimising work, yet also optimising for clarity and providing control.*

### **🧠 Thoughtful** — but not invasive

> *It's about being people first, fun at the right time, yet also never getting in the way of a user and their message.*

### **🎢 Versatile** — but not without a focus

> *It's about being adaptable, modular, supportive and open to different users and use cases, yet not without a mission and north star.*

### **🙌 Essential** — but not demanding

> *It's about being always there — but not always on, building for stickiness, empowerment, and transparency, yet with a constant mindfulness.*

# **Download our apps!**

### ✨ https://www.loom.com/mobile ✨

Logic + Rhythm is a technology studio formed out of years working for big tech companies. Think of us like your digital product team for hire. We help companies get their ideas off the ground by designing, prototyping, and building great software together.

We're a team of designers and engineers spread across seven different countries who are really good at building applications. We’ve spent years working in-house at some of the world’s leading tech companies. We took all the good stuff we learned with us and left the bad stuff behind. Working with us should feel the same as having hired an internal design team. We work through the hard stuff together and in the end, create something great that delivers lasting value for your company.


We conduct a weekly jam session for folks to share what they're working on, get feedback, and try out different approaches to problems. This is a chance for everyone to help uplevel each other, while also staying up-to-date on what's the latest on our various projects.

We also have a channel in Slack called #design-drops where we share WIP Looms to get async feedback. As our team is spread out over 9 time zones, working async is a bit part of our culture. And finally, as with most things internally, all of our Figmas are open by default so anyone can hop in and drop feedback for others.

As with most designers, **Figma** has become our main tool and where most of our projects begin. Each person at the studio has helped refine our process and made spinning up new projects easy and expansive. We're constantly sharing better ways to do things, cool plug-ins we've found, etc. When needed, we also love moving into  **Framer**, **Origami**, or **Code** to produce high-fidelity prototypes.

Beyond design, we're big users of both **Zoom** and **Loom**. We like to hop on Zooms and jam on stuff together, and Loom lets us keep our teammates and clients up-to-date when async makes more sense.

Finally, we use **Notion** as our company OS: tracking projects, feedback, scheduling, etc.

People post what they're listening to in our general channel on a daily basis. At our last weekly happy hour, one of our team members shared this solid Boiler Room set from David August.

By keeping them at a minimum.

Having worked at big tech companies in the past, we've seen how much time gets wasted on pointless meetings. We keep ours to a minimum so that we can spend our time building the thing, instead of *talking* about building the thing.

We'd love to hear from you at [careers@logicandrhythm.com](http://careers@logicandrhythm.com), or [hello@logicandrhythm.com](http://hello@logicandrhythm.com) if you just wanna say hi! :)

We also share cool finds and company updates on our Twitter account, [@logicandrhythm](https://twitter.com/logicandrhythm).

As Coda's design team, we're tasked with designing a product and brand that allows makers to create—from docs that capture ideas to docs that run whole companies and everything in between. We work across the entire Coda product surface, including shaping document experience, how Coda is used in teams and large organizations, and our cast growing ecosystem.

We're spread out across Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

As a company, Coda is super thoughtful about rituals and our Design team is too! We have weekly Design Crits, socials - which form the core rituals. But since we have a joint Product + Design team, we also have a weekly meeting to share work and processes.  We have a joint Product and Design team because we’re building an incredibly interconnected product and ecosystem around it. So our weekly get together is critical for building a thoughtful product!

Ultimately, our goal is to re-invent the doc and turn it into something that feels familiar and flexible but with building blocks you can combine to create something powerful.

Why? We believe that the our existing tools have created a divide between software users and software makers, and we'd like to help break that down. We're trying to create a tool that lets anyone solve problems for themselves and for their teams.

What separates us from no-code tools with similar missions is that we believe the best way to achieve this mission at scale is through something the mass market already uses everyday — a document

All over the place! Here's a playlist one of our designers, Hieu, started that we've all added to.

We hosts hackathons once a quarter, with the entire company. Sometimes there's a theme, but for the most part, people can jam on whatever they like. Designers often come up with their own concepts and get engineers onboard to form a team. Other times, designers might take a break from designing to do UX Research or some doc making. An incredible number of features and improvements have roots in hackathons, so it's a big part of what we do here.

We're looking for experienced generalists who can take a feature or product from end to end.  So a bit of everything, mixed with a good amount of humility and collaboration! Still, we think everyone has a superpower and so it's worthwhile for you to think about what superpower you bring to the team.

We also love people who are passionate about making tools for tool makers, so let us know if that's you. 

Message one of us! Or learn more about us  here: https://coda.io/design

We split our time between content creation, spending time with the community (on social media, in our Discord channel, or having coffee chats), supporting the sales team, and helping the product and design teams build the best product possible.

Rogie in our team built a [slick plugin](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/973621811122426089/Figma-Tips) which automatically pulls in our "Figma Tips" YouTube videos, so users can play them from the canvas.

We would probably cover every genre known to woman, from Radiohead to horror movie soundtracks, to Frank Ocean, to '90s drum and bass!

Central to our role is a passion for community and a deep interest in building the best design tool we can. Someone who is comfortable thinking on their feet would fit in very well.

Here's a more in depth look at what our role it [like: https://medium.com/8px-magazine/so-you-want-to-be-a-designer-advocate-4167e8ca20c2](https://medium.com/8px-magazine/so-you-want-to-be-a-designer-advocate-4167e8ca20c2)

### We're a team of 19 Product, Brand, and Content Designers.

### We work from around the world and come together a couple of times a year to be together.

We work and live in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Toronto. D.C., Copenhagen, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and more. As a team, we've visited San Francisco, Outer Banks, and New York City.

### We're reimagining financial technology.

Currently we have 40,000+ companies we're building for such as: [Linear](http://linear.app/), [Maven](https://maven.com/), [Trust&Will](https://trustandwill.com/), [Shef](https://shef.com/), [Golden](https://golden.com/), [Mighty](https://www.mightyapp.com/), [Lunchclub](https://lunchclub.com/), [Scratchpad](https://scratchpad.com/), [Stir](https://www.usestir.com/), and more.

### We make time to stay in touch.

We have a couple of regular Zoom sessions each week that bring the whole group together to workshop designs, collect feedback, share inspiration, or just drink coffee and hang out.

Check out our website at [mercury.design](https://mercury.design).

### We’re a team of more than 30 product designers, content designers, and researchers working across the surfaces that comprise the Shop experience. We're passionate about design,  thoughtful about using design as the tool to facilitate product strategy and alignment, and bullish on the quality of experience we deliver for buyers and merchants.

### Want to learn more about our mission? Check out a few recent podcasts featuring our design and product leaders. 

### Our core value is to be **design-driven** as an organization. We think that the *way* we become the most amazing way to shop from your phone is to build an experience that is truly distinct from anything else  out there. This means that, by necessity, design is at the forefront of finding new and interesting ways to engage buyers during their shopping journey.

### We’ve adopted Shopify’s simple approach to building great products: GSD (*get shit done).* Shopify doesn’t subscribe to a specific dogma around product development. Instead, we’re committed to shipping great ideas that make the lives of our customers easier and more enjoyable. Because of this, we're a design-driven organization, meaning we look to design to guide what we build. There are 3 simple steps we follow in our development process:

1. **Proposal**: When a team gets an idea for what to build, limit their pitch to one page where they outline the problem they are trying to solve, what a potential solution might look like, and how long they think they'll need to ship.

2. **Prototype**: We're bullish on jumping straight into creating and validating solutions.

3. **Build**: Work with our partners in development to realize our solutions and get them  to our customers while maintaining a high bar for quality.

### 

### While we work Digital by Default at Shopify, we also take opportunities to come together 2-3 times a year for Bursts™.

### **Bursts** are organized at different scales and allow teams to connect in person and work on critical initiatives. We recently just had a *Shop Mega Burst* where all of us came together to celebrate our accomplishments thus far and get motivated about the year ahead.

### 

### Beyond Bursts, we’ve come up with some other creative ways to stay connected week to week. Examples include:

### **Shop Atelier** The Atelier is a shared digital space where we bring work and pair design. We’ve filled the room with images that inspire us and flip on the audio in Figma to chit-chat as we work through stuff. Sometimes, it's productive. Most of the time, it's fun. We make just as many memes as we do actual screens that may or may not end up in Shop.

### **Weekly Wind-Down** A 30-min. session on Fridays where you’re at the whim of whomever is the host. Come at your own risk. Sometimes, you’ll be asked to draw Lisa Simpson from memory, tell two truths and a lie only to find out your colleague may or may not have been Lady Gaga’s crush for a brief moment, or play GeoGuesser with some SERIOUS geography experts.

### 

Hi! We are a small fully remote team working throughout the West Coast of North America. Andy and Mehdi design and build the product full-time, while Shen  wrangles all things community.

Andy and Mehdi first met in London while working together at Facebook, and became fast friends after discovering their shared love of [Kendama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendama). They would later meet Shen after discovering her intriguing [lowercase profile](https://read.cv/shen) on read.cv.

Our flagship product is a professional network called [read.cv](https://read.cv/explore), or just CV for short. We like to call it a 'Show don't tell' professional network, meaning we encourage people to show off their side projects, writing, and talks, alongside their work experience and education.

Our goal is to create a low-key community where people can celebrate the work they do and find opportunities that match their values.

We're just starting out, but a lot of [great](https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1454859543893078019) [people](https://twitter.com/zebriez/status/1419828101807108101) have already [said](https://twitter.com/mdo/status/1455642374206414850) [wonderful](https://twitter.com/DuaneKing/status/1478177114788536321) [things](https://twitter.com/search?q=read.cv&src=recent_search_click) about us!

We have a clear product roadmap, but as a startup we know the path to getting there can have a few twists and turns. Our typical product development cycle looks something like this:

* Define the successful outcome of the product

* Use Figma to loosely sketch out the key components

* Design, prototype, and iterate in code

* Beta test with a small subset of users

* Repeat until we meet our successful outcomes

In terms of workflow we only have one weekly scheduled meeting on Monday mornings to sync up on what we'll be working on for the week. The rest of the week is managed ad hoc in our Discord.

You can also read more about how we use Vercel [here](https://vercel.com/customers/read-cv)!

Okay to be totally transparent  our design system doesn't really exist. Our Figma is disorganized. Layers don't have names. Files are untitled. Stuff gets put in the first page that opens when Figma finally loads. Essentially, we use Figma as a sketchbook.

If you'd like to take a peek behind the scenes, here's our first Figma file started back in August 2020.

But the source of truth lies in our react components, which is where most of our high fidelity design work gets done. We have a color system, animation and spacing constants, etc. We just don't spend a lot of time recreating our stuff in Figma because at our tiny scale it doesn't make sense.

Here's a cool side project from Mehdi — Back in 2015 Apple had released beta versions for watchOS 2 that let you run native apps on the watch. As part of a 10-hour hackathon,  Mehdi and fellow developer Lior Tubi   thought it would be fun to port Doom over to it.

Of course they [got things working](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhf_SpO6wA) with a version of [nDoom](https://doomwiki.org/wiki/NDoom), and the project got written up in [the Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/10/2/9443491/doom-apple-watch-new-apple-tv-port). To take things even further Mehdi also ended up porting it over to the AppleTV.

Our team made this playlist for you. Please enjoy some big choons you might hear at our respective home offices. Jah!

Our team is small and not currently in the hyper-growth phase of a start up. But that doesn't mean we don't ever have opportunities to collaborate.

So far we've worked exclusively with people within our read.cv community, like [Adam Eastburn](https://read.cv/adameastburn) who simply replied to one of our newsletters with a the casual proposal to "collaborate sometime". He ended up doing our amazing product illustrations along with a killer tote bag and stickers.

So if you don't see a job listing but have a cool project in mind please don't hesitate to reach out via our [Discord](http://discord.gg/bpXDGEDNRq) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/read_cv).

Peace and love,\
The CV Team ✌️

# We are designers, researchers, problem solvers, creatives, writers & strategists. We are a group of bright minds seeking to build better futures through technology & design.

We like to question the status-quo, take different perspectives and think lateral. We have an ear at the pulse of time whilst building sustainable designs for better futures.

From day one, we’ve been committed to making Studio Lenzing a place where people can feel at ease, broaden their horizon and make the best out of their working time. We do it by putting people at the center of all our doing.

# Our core mission is to improve peoples’ lives through delightful UX, thoughtful application of technology & aesthetic design.

More on our principles [here](https://www.studiolenzing.com/about/principles).

You can find our seasonal playlist on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VYhCxFjWaxBtVBK4YIhpg?si=8ec5313a381d4bd4)

For general inquiries, compliments or to tell us about the next big thing, feel free to drop us a line: hi@studiolenzing.com

You can also find us on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/studiolenzing) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StudioLenzing) or subscribe to our irregular [newsletter](https://www.studiolenzing.com/newsletter).

Design is one of the most important functions at Webflow because the majority of our customers are designers. Though it feels kind of meta to design for designers, it's such an honor and privilege.

Our design functions consists nearly 40 people spanning across Brand Design, Content Design, Education Design, Product Design, and User Research.

### Our team

We have team members from Hawaii to Poland, and many places in-between—including a presence in San Francisco and New York City.

The web was originally invented to share basic documents between universities, but in the last few decades it has transformed how billions of people live their lives. The web has become the new frontier of innovation and opportunity.

But, for every 400 people that use the web today, only 1 can truly build for it. That’s because building most things for the web — from a simple landing page to a more complicated application — still requires knowing how to code. 

Webflow exists to dramatically change this reality. Our mission is to enable everyone to create for the web — and lead fulfilling, impactful lives while we do it.

We are creating a visual/no-code development platform that exposes a set of foundational capabilities (aka “building blocks”) that can be mixed together to create a wide range of things — from functionality-rich marketing websites, to paid subscription services, to entire web applications with users.

Webflow, of course! In addition, we love Figma and FigJam for design work.

Some of our product designers like to build functional prototypes in code and deploy it to Vercel.

We are a remote-first team and a lot of our workspace is on Zoom, Loom, and Figma.

We also have a beautiful office in San Francisco, where quite a few of our designers come in and work from.

You can learn more at [www.webflow.com](http://webflow.com) and follow us on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/webflow). Our 2021 No-Code Conference keynote shares where we're heading as as company and product.

### Articles and media featuring our team members

* [How we Webflow at Webflow](https://webflow.com/blog/webflow-at-webflow)

* [Design Fikas: Why communication between design teams is essential for our industry](https://webflow.com/blog/communication-between-design-teams-fika)

* [So you want to build a company merch store](https://webflow.com/blog/so-you-want-to-build-a-company-merch-store)

* [How to build for those who prefer motion and for those who don't](https://webflow.com/blog/motion-and-accessibility)

* [David Hoang on the Metamuse podcast: Designing creative tools](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-designing-creative-tools-with-david-hoang/id1504506097?i=1000547084657)

Our design team spans multiple time zones and disciplines, but stays close through a mix of weekly rituals, Slack and Zoom chats, and in-person gatherings.

* Slack as our go-to spot to find each other

* Each Monday, Open Mic: we share how we’re feeling & screenshots of our work from the past week (recent examples below!), then a topic brought to the group (e.g. designing for celebration states in the product, how to evolve the UX of form controls in our design system)

* Tuesday & Thursday, Design Crit: we share in-progress work for feedback from other designers

* In-person meetups and travel: In addition to whole-company offsites, design team members working together on a project often fly to work together in-person.

Our product development cycle at Watershed relies on small, agile pods working in lock step together on rapid iteration. \
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Each pod has a pretty traditional set up — a PM, a PD, and a handful of engineers. Bonus, each pod is also paired with a Climate Strategy Advisor + Carbon Data Analyst, who help us ensure we understand the user needs, problems, existing behaviors, data pipeline, etc.\
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We start each quarter with OKRs and a handful of prioritized projects. Designers are *extremely* involved in the process of identifying, sizing, and setting relative priority within their pod. \
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Once we kick off a project, designers work in rapid sprints to move from exploration to a flow that we have relative confidence in. These designs are brought to crit and shared within a pod as early as possible. After 1-2 weeks of discovery, eng will start to build the early designs to prepare for a usability test on production with a handful of users. From there, we'll iterate  based on user feedback, and ship the feature to the hands of our users. We keep iterating from there. We try to timebox new features and products to 4-6 weeks from start to finish.

If they want to! Though our entire design team uses tools including Figma, Figjam, & Notion, it’s “yes, and”—code is one of many valuable design tools. We believe in using the best tool for the job, and while Figma accelerates exploring many visual options, working directly with the CSS/React can be liberating for using production data (with all its edge cases) and dialing in live interactions.

For example, here’s a recent project where we jumped straight to code, since the real data & hover interaction defined much of the visual design:

Coding skills are not a requirement for joining the team, but any amount of technical skill is a plus!

### Never delegate understanding.

Designers at Watershed do the work of thoroughly investigating the right problems to define the right solutions. We run our own research and testing, and ceaselessly iterate to adapt our tools to meet the needs of our users. We don’t make baseless decisions or assumptions. Our power is in actively seeking more knowledge and data on our customers, the climate and the business to make decisions with confidence.

### Good judgement is the job.

Our work is filled with tradeoffs – balancing craft vs scrappiness, short-term vs long-term, current vs future customers, and more. There is no hiding from these tough decisions: the role of the designer is to look at these straight in the face and navigate through them.

### Design is a team sport.

Designers at Watershed prioritize sharing early and often, collaboration and feedback throughout their design process. We can rely on each other’s expertise for support — whether it be for a product surface, a technical design skill, best practices or ideation — to level up our work and increase the efficacy of our decisions. While we believe the role of collaboration is essential to our team’s success, we are never blocked on unanimity.

### Practice productive conflict.

Productive conflict and feedback are core to our design process, unlocking trust and growth within the team. We feel comfortable disagreeing with one another and cross-functional peers but do so with respect. We give and receive feedback graciously and with humility. In giving feedback, we inherently assume good intent. We treat each other and our work with dignity, kindness and compassion, enabling us to practice productive conflict.

### Widen your lens.

We’re a stellar team because we welcome and learn from each other’s diverse opinions, skills, and backgrounds. We teach by doing and learn by observing one another. Designers feel safe to present big, bold and weird ideas in addition to sharp, specific and safe ideas. We approach each other’s ideas and opinions with a “yes, and” attitude.

### We are a distributed group of 15+ designers, engineers and researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and design to make intelligent systems shapeable.

Our team has shipped products within startups, agencies and big companies like IDEO, Google, Facebook, IKEA, Frog Design, H&M, DDB and Medtronic.

We’ve recently moved into our brand new hub in King’s Cross at the heart of London. When you exit the station and look to your left you’ll be able to spot our hub immediately, an iconic glass wedge on top of a period building.

The office  is equipped with  the things we’ve always wished we had in our previous offices. It features a  [La Marzocco](https://uk.lamarzocco.com) coffee machine (with [Round Hill Roastery](https://roundhillroastery.com) beans), Linoleum-top ‘[Eiermann](https://adamwieland.de/en/)’ tables, Vitra  chairs and other high quality furniture throughout. 

In early 2020, during the #BLM protests we released [Anonymous Camera](http://anonymous.camera), an app that allows journalists and activists to capture anonymised footage in real time. We got featured in The Verge, got [rave reviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNEdQqTMyE), had over 60K downloads and raised over 2,000$ for #BLM organisations. It has since been used by investigative journalists reporting on corruption in Russia and Médecins Sans Frontières. 

In 2021, Anonymous Camera was awarded an iF Design Award and was shortlisted for the Product Hunt Golden Kittie award.

In 2022, [Ford Motor Company announced Canopy](https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2022/01/18/ford-and-adt.html), a 100M$+ joint venture with ADT to fight tool theft from vans and trucks. We’re proud to say that we’ve been partners of Canopy from the very beginning helping them build a responsible AI system using high quality data collection and an iterative ML approach.

Recently, we’ve announced a partnership with Rafael Nadal, building his first digital venture, [Forma](http://forma.health) using Playground’s technology.

We love music! Step into our office and most of the time it will be filled by the tunes of our office playlist on Spotify, playing on our B&O speaker.

### Drop us a line at [hello@playground.ai](http://mailto:hello@playground.ai) or DM us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/playgr_und).

Alternatively, if you happen to find yourself around King’s Cross in London you can also drop by our hub there.

*We did the karaoke together. Much joy was had.* 

Diego is working on a baby. Eric cooks fancy meals every day. Marcela goes kayaking in the most remote lakes in Canada. Zain is learning 3D modeling so he can fulfill his dream of becoming an NFT.

At Ramp, designers are stakeholders and everyone is empowered to make their own decisions. We work very closely with our product and engineering partners and we ship without obstacles. 

We are unencumbered by red tape and we don't "present options" to stakeholders — we present solutions to our colleagues and we farm for dissent. Together, we craft the optimal solution. Be prepared to lead. 

Companion are a digital product design studio that partners with start-ups, brands and companies to create new realities.

We were founded in December 2020 and our small team of eight currently operates out of Shoreditch and the boroughs of London — with our extended network of freelancers and collaborates working from across Europe.

Our mission is to enhance the world around us by designing digital services and products that inspire, disrupt established norms and create a better future for people and planet.

### Open to learning.

You know you don’t know everything and like to seek others viewpoints. You’re ready to be open minded,  approachable and keep learning.

### Make a difference.

You know you make a difference to those around you and that rubs off. You know that bit by bit we all can make change happen, care more for the world and those we share it with.

### Be yourself.

We want you to be comfortable being yourself and sharing that with your colleagues. Being keen to see things outside of your own viewpoint is important.

### Say it how it is.

No fronts or bluffs are required. You say it how it is. You say “I don’t know but I can find out”. You're open, honest, accountable.

### Play as part of the team.

You like being part of a team and you're in it for the long game not the quick win. Everyone plays to the end.

### Take the rough with the smooth.

You turn up and turn out ready for whatever might face you. Not everything can be plain sailing, and you're ready to sail the highs and lows.

### 

* The time, space & guidance needed to thrive 🌻

* Cycle to work scheme 🚲

* Access to [Spill](https://www.spill.chat/), an all-in-one mental health support for employees 🗣

* Monthly [Headspace](https://www.headspace.com/) subscription for your brain 💆

* Flexi hours so you can accommodate with your personal life events when needed. 10-3 core hours and we work 40hr per week 🤸

* Up to 5 days per year whereby you can teach or volunteer and receive full pay 👨‍🏫.

* Work from home up to 3 days a week 🏡

* Work abroad for up to 30 days a year (within -/+ 3h timezone)

* A learning budget of £500 per year for professional development, for things such as books, courses, conferences 📚

* 33 days of holiday including bank holidays (+1 for every year you’re with us) and paid shutdown at Christmas 🎄

* Dog friendly office 🐕

* All of the equipment & technology you need (or want) to work best day to day 👨‍💻

* Annual charitable contribution of £250 to a charity of your choice as part of our [commitment to donate 5% of our total revenue.](https://companionstudio.notion.site/b4cf2baa796e4e6b85afe199f131759b?v=9907915520a74f06b8bd3819f3903896)

### The work we have created and the relationships we have formed to date.

 We worked with Limna, an app app that is aimed at making the art market more accessible and encouraging more people to purchase primary market art, to define their digital identity, user experience, product strategy & design.

**The DO Lectures** brings together some of the worlds greatest change makers to a farm in west Wales to encourage others to go DO. 

We refreshed their identity inspired by the farm, giving them a flexible typographic system, characterful illustrations and colours to use generatively on the site. We overhauled their many back-end services, streamlining it into a single CMS and wrapping it all in a front-end that puts the user at the center.

**VanMoof** is one of the world leaders in electric bikes. 

We worked with them and creative consultancy Modem to create a digital installation informed by their signature dot-matrix. 

It has been installed in 15 of their global stores and it brings their rider data and impact to life through a modular system: with each city pulling in the data from where it is located as well as the collective global impact of riding an electronic bike.

**Alexander** is the place to discover new, original, hour-long audio features from around the world. 

Their stories are written and reported by acclaimed authors and journalists, narrated by renowned actors and accompanied by visionary short films. 

We worked with them to re-design and build the app from the ground up, focusing on creating a compelling experience that put the content front and center.

**Cellular Goods** is the UK's first direct to consumer cannabinoid company that is listed on the London Stock Exchange. 

We took them from nothing pre-IPO, to a fully functional, modern and progressive headless eCommerce store in less than a year under the scrutiny of public investors.

 They create cannabinoid products that are cleaner, greener and purer than anyone else's.

In the office you'll usually find us listening to [DO YOU](https://doyou.world/) or [NTS](https://www.nts.live/) — we did attempt to start a monthly studio playlist, but we found that we're all creatures of habit that listen to the same things that we did when we were 14 over and over again.

We do promise though that the playlist below sounds better than the awful pun in the title.

Born from the explorer's spirit within each of us, Felt was founded with a mission of helping everyone think in maps.

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet.

It's still way too hard to make a map, and in this quickly changing world maps are more important than ever. Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping app that serves a wide range of needs, from sketching out a hike with friends, to communicating next steps to a wildfire response unit.

We collaborate closely between product, design, and engineering, focusing on creating high quality tools with a big impact. As a small team we try to use just enough process to get us into a state of flow and momentum, and to avoid getting bogged down in meetings or check-ins. 

We also invest in our internal tooling to automate away repetitive tasks. Check out our [blog](https://felt.com/blog) for examples of things like our awesome [continuous integration and deployment](https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next-level) process, and upcoming lessons about how to build a design system in a mapping product.

CREATE WONDER

We build things that give people a sense of awe and admiration.

BE RELENTLESS

We dream big dreams, then set out relentlessly to achieve them.

EXPLORE TOGETHER

We work closely with each other to explore and try new ideas.

### Competitive salary & equity

Benchmarked at 75th percentile of companies our stage & size.

### Top tier healthcare

100% covered for you and your dependents.

### Work from anywhere

Our team is distributed and works on US Timezones. We also have a beautiful office in Oakland, CA.

### 401(k) Matching

You contribute 5%, we contribute 4% – available on Day 1.

### 5 weeks vacation

25 days paid time off per year, plus 10 company holidays.

### Brand new equipment

Top of the line computer, plus a $1000 budget to create your perfect setup.

We are a team of almost 30 Product Designers and UX Writers that work across a number of surfaces of Figma.

Here's at least those of us with Read.CV accounts today:

Oh my gosh, so many! To name a few…

* [Shana](https://read.cv/shanahu) made an awesome typeface, [Lark](https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/shana-hu/lark/)

* [Marcin](https://twitter.com/mwichary) is working on [a book about keyboards](https://aresluna.org/shift-happens)

* [Amanda](https://read.cv/amandayeh) makes [all kinds of things](https://amandayeh.com/) at the intersection of art and technology

* [Chris](https://twitter.com/chrisbaty) founded a [company that helps people write novels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month) in a month

And to add a few more: [Jordan](https://read.cv/jordanhsu) builds computers, [Penny's](https://www.linkedin.com/in/millicentdbailey/) taking spanish lessons, [Noah sings](https://www.instagram.com/nlevin/), [Sara](https://twitter.com/sj_culver) makes quilts, [Jackie](https://twitter.com/jackiechuichui) renovated his own Kitchen, [Schmidt's](https://twitter.com/AndrewSchmidtFC) working on a screenplay, and perhaps best of all, [Sean](https://read.cv/seanchin) once made an instagram to help people figure out [which bread you are](https://www.instagram.com/whatbreadyouare/).

We just finished renovating 4 floors of our San Francisco Office on 760 Market St. Will add some photos of our New York and London offices later :-)

More of an audio person? Here's a spotify playlist of a bunch of employee interviews from various podcasts!\
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For design-specific ones, you could check out:

* [Collaborative creativity with Nikolas Klein](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DJpJLs0Bdrq9uQWxwuF4L?si=9c8916552cc6454d)

* [Figma's Redesigned Comments, with Ryhan Hassan](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ly74ahLXyqtKo6DtVO47H?si=0edb3a2890704be4)

* [Design tools with Noah Levin](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mxGwp4p2LiQ9bh6bF3X5h?si=e3168344ef0b4f49)

* [Designing FigJam with Jenny Wen and Keeyen Yeo](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OdRBY661GrWgmANFW9hTL?si=24a7a5947654477d)

* [How Figma's Head of UX Writing is helping build design software that UX writers love](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JvNdMH48RtN3JdbBgPCRI?si=-Yq3eKnvTIi-WGl1XFzVeg)

### We are a team of 70+, including engineers, designers, writers, strategists, business developers, researchers, art directors, creative technologists, and everything in between.

Building digital products, brands and businesses, we help ambitious companies identify, explore and respond to new opportunities.

### **From defining future homes with IKEA to building decentralised platforms with Coinbase; we are in the business of breaking new grounds.**

### We are committed to cultivating a company that embraces differences. Being part of our team should mean that you can be who you are, while making the most out of your career.

As a team, we spend a lot of time together; in projects, at conferences, and our annual get togethers. In all these instances, it’s important for us to not only celebrate the things we have in common, but dive deep under the surface to discover what makes us unique. We’re committed to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels comfortable to bring their authentic selves to work every day—regardless of your identity, experiences and beliefs.\
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We want BB to be a place where you can try out new things with the risk of failing, where you can take ownership over your own work without being micro-managed, and where there’s a low barrier for coming up with ideas — no matter your job title or discipline.

### We are not a *fully* remote company, and (almost) everyone at BB is connected to one of our four offices in some capacity. To us, the value of face to face interactions and arbitrary personal connections is simply too high.

That said, we embrace the opportunity to work remotely when you need to. In a post-pandemic world we are rethinking how we use the offices, and looking for new and more fluid ways of working together. If you want to split your time during the week between the office and home (or a cabin, or your parent’s house), you are free to do so.

Working across offices in Norway, England, Germany and the Netherlands on international projects has its pros and cons. By using tools like Slack, Figma and Google Meet, we try to keep the cons to a minimum and make the distance as short as possible. It made us good at working remotely. There is no such thing as oversharing or over-communicating when working in a team of people spread across locations. Share your work with your team as early as possible, and say too much rather than too little.

We allow everyone to use the  tool that fits the task at hand, but our go-to design tool is **Figma**. We spend quite some time in **Miro**, hosting online workshops, and **Pitch** is the tool we choose to create presentations. Our company documentation lives in **Notion**, but some of us hang on to **Dropbox Paper** for their writing. **Framer** is used by some for prototyping, as are **Principle** and **Protopie**. Motion design happens primarily in **After Effects**. 

Our main email address is hello@bakkenbaeck.com. You can find us on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/bakkenbaeck) and [Instagram](http://instagram.com/bakkenbaeck) as @bakkenbaeck. We're active on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bakken-&-b%C3%A6ck-as), too. 

Feel free to reach out to any of our team members on here, too. You can find them in the top of this page.

We believe in tools, and the people who use them. We believe in tools that foster autonomy, encourage inquisitiveness, strengthen personal agency, and drive critical inquiry. We believe knowledge is the essential human project.

We’re building beam because we think something is fundamentally broken in the way the tools at our disposal have us use the web — and thus, our minds. It feels like we have not freely chosen our online practices — that they are habits we have helplessly picked up.

Our tools define our relationship with the world. Web browsers have framed our cognitive behavior to such an extent we don’t question it anymore. Can thinking be reduced to a search box with no memory or context? What is left of the thousands hours you spent on the web

Sequentially typing searches in a vacuum is not how we think as humans. We make the world our own by investing it with meaning, day after day. We need to reconnect with the pleasure we derive from making sense of things and with the ability to think, grow and build upon what we learned in autonomy.

It has nothing to do with being smart, fast or productive. To hell with productivity tools. It is time to build a tool aligned with our human nature.

We're a small, remote-first design studio started by Todd Wilson & János Spindler. We met in 2018 working as in-house designers on the brand team of a technology startup. Our creative partnership is focused on creating work in the areas of brand strategy, identity design & creative direction.

We partner with innovative, values-based companies across industries such as technology, healthcare, mobility & housing to bring their brands and ideas to life.

95% of our work takes place in these four apps. **Figma** is our go-to design tool for its collaboration features and ability to iterate fast on concepts, prototype ideas and so on. Everything else we do at the studio runs on **Notion** - it's our digital HQ for the business. We're big supporters of async communication so we use **Loom** very frequently to share client updates, presentations or just snippets from our lives in the home office. **Slack** is used for all other communication - we also find ourselves using it as bookmarking tool more and more

When not working on projects we both enjoy a good long walk to give the eyes some rest and catch up on podcasts. Otherwise our down time is often spend with everything from collecting visual references on are.na, playlist curation, culinary explorations to experimenting with NFTs

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