Joanne Magbitang
Lead Designer in Toronto, She/her
About
Founding designer round two — reimagining the building blocks of human-computer interaction: language.
Teams
Work Experience
• Design lead on developer tools and generative AI showcases
• Directing brand + design systems for marketing and product
• Managing a team of product and visual designers
Projects
Partnered with Pentagram Design to shape and execute Cohere's new brand, New Nature, across all digital and physical touch points
We build large language models that can read and write — and my team designs a platform for developers to explore, learn, and implement Natural Language Processing into their products
Built a simple, gamified experience to otherwise applying to repetitive and hard-to-find sources of college aid; released and researched via TestFlight, garnering over 160,000 US students on the waitlist
Designed Palantir's new module for collaborative documents, ensuring its interoperability with other artifacts from various modules within the Gotham platform for its very first release
Enriched the consumer viewing experience by overhauling the entire photos UX in mobile and web — including a dynamic grid design based on ranking factors, and slideshow headers which became a paid feature on Yelp for Business
Side Projects
Computational art experiments using p5.js
Education
Took a gap year to pursue design roles at Wealthsimple, Yelp, Palantir, and Bakken & Bæck.