Maykel Loomans
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Maykel Loomans

Designer in San Francisco, CA, he/him

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.

11 days ago

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

2023

Everett is a multi-talented creative who is currently on the publishing team at Stripe as the executive producer of films and brand content for Stripe Press and Works in Progress.

We talked about his path from East LA to the Bay Area and spoke about some of our shared formative experiences from reflections on our time at Facebook in the early 2010s. We dug into his perspectives as a generalist vs. being a specialist, and what the next creative challenges are that he wants to take on.

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Side Projects

2023

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.

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2022

A place to find and share your favourite Darkroom presets.

2021

A place to quickly share your collections of photos to the web.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
San Francisco, CA

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.

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2018 — 2019
Head of Product and Design at Glossier
New York, NY

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.

2014 — 2018
Product Designer at Facebook
Menlo Park, CA
2012 — 2014
Product Designer at Instagram
San Francisco, CA
2011 — 2012
UI Designer at Freelance
Maastricht, Netherlands
2006 — 2011
Co-founder and Creative Director at Airglow Studios
Maastricht, Netherlands

Design co-founder of a small design and development agency.

Teams

Current
Brex Design