Episode 9 with Everett Katigbak!
We talk about his path from East LA to the Bay Area, traffic on the 405, generalist vs. specialist, early days of designing Facebook's brand, environment and culture.
About
I am a digital product builder who likes to create things by mashing together design, engineering, and business strategy.
Currently, I am a designer and leader at Brex. I have a podcast where I talk with people about the stories behind the things they designed and built. Some days, I work on my photo-sharing side project Shoebox.
Features
Jessica is a lettering artist and author who has created custom lettering artwork for established brands, films, classic books, postage stamps, and so much more. She’s traveled the world speaking at creative conferences and colleges and has befriended innumerable internet strangers while navigating the depths of social media.
Most recently, she wrote and illustrated her latest children’s book: “Who Will U Be?”. We talked a bit about her career and the meaningful moments within it. And we chatted about befriending tons of people by being extremely online and the differences in connecting with people nowadays versus the past decade and a half.
Matthew is a designer, entrepreneur and a co-founder of Letterboxd, a social media site for film discussion and discovery.
We talked about his path, how he bootstrapped and incubated Letterboxd, and how he has approached leading the company, and evolving the product, in the decade-plus that it has been around.
Halli is an entrepreneur, creative, design leader and musician from Reykjavik, Iceland. He previously founded and led UENO. Currently, he is building 1000 ramps in Iceland, releasing music under the name Önnu Jónu Son and just launched his restaurant, bar, and mini theater Anna Jóna.
We spoke for a short period of time during the happy hour of the first day of Kinference in Brooklyn. We talked about his experience being a recovering alcoholic, cover some meaningful stories about what drives him, and what projects he is focusing on next.
Side Projects
Full Stack Whatever is a series of conversations with creatives and technologists about the work behind the work.
With these conversations, I want to dig deeper and uncover the lessons, insights, and motivations of some of the best and brightest in our industries. I hope that the stories shared will resonate and support some of you.
A place to find and share your favourite Darkroom presets.
A place to quickly share your collections of photos to the web.
Writing
Work Experience
Design Director and Principal Designer. Started at Brex with a focus on Mobile. Then led our Platform organization. Now leading design for Empower and design hiring across the company.
Led the digital product, product design, and UX research teams. Evolved our recruiting and interviewing practices, and increased clarity of career tracks. Drove our technology teams to focus on impact and outcomes.
Led the transformation of glossier.com based on a new design system, which redesigned all of the touchpoints of our customer's critical path from consideration to purchase.
Design co-founder of a small design and development agency.
Speaking
Teams
