Joshua Dickens

Joshua Dickens

Product Designer in Oakland, CA, He/Him

Product Designer at Instagram, previously Apple. Pop culture and technology buff. Husband, dad.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
San Francisco, CA

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2014 — 2022
Product Designer at Instagram

Design Lead and contributor for numerous features & products, including Video & Creative Tools, Layout, Boomerang, Stories and more.

2006 — 2013
Product Designer at Apple
Cupertino, CA

Designed numerous web & iOS apps for Apple's cloud services group: .Mac, MobileMe, iCloud

Projects

2021

Inspired by the ways Japanese users love using Instagram to find cool places to visit, we designed and built a new way to discover places on the map. Initially launched for the Japan market, it launched globally in July 2022.

2020

Part of our Japan team's localized efforts, I designed & prototyped a custom QR code, replacing the previous implementation of Nametag with the more ubiquitous QR code.

2017
Superzoom at Instagram

Conceived a lighthearted camera effect, Superzoom, that took the classic "suspense" meme and made it a fun, one-tap experience.

2017
Face Filters at Instagram

Responsible for the UI, creative direction and even some of the implementation of our first version of AR Filters for instagram.

2016
Instagram Stories at Instagram

Design Lead for Instagram Stories. Designed The Ring™, Face Filters, Type Mode and more.

2015
Layout at Instagram

Designed Instagram's popular standalone collage creation app.

2011
Find My Friends at Apple

Product design lead from launch through the iOS 7 transition (rich corinthian leather → flat design). Designed & conceived of features like temporary sharing & geofence notifications, as well as location sharing within iMessage.

2009
iDisk for iOS at Apple

Designed one of Apple's first 2nd party apps — iDisk provided file access & sharing for MobileMe members.

2009
iCloud Photo Sharing at Apple

Design lead for numerous photo sharing features at Apple: .Mac/MobileMe Gallery, Photo Stream, Shared Albums and more.

Writing

2022
My Instagram Story

Wherein I describe my journey at Instagram—filled with self-doubt and anxiety hand-in-hand with great opportunities and personal growth.

Speaking

2021

Taught an origami workshop as part of the 24 Hours of UX virtual conference

2019
Copenhagen

Not a talk, per se, but co-taught a mobile GUI course using Origami Studio, for Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design's IDP program in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

2018
The Future of Social Media at SXSW
Austin, TX

Panel discussion with Tutti Taygerly (FB), Rajni Jacques (Teen Vogue), moderated by Gene Liebel (Work & Co)

Side Projects

2020

Figma plugin to easily replace one layer with another.

2017

Sketch Plugin to adjust character spacing on text layers set in SF (UI / Pro) Text Display fonts to match the system-applied spacing on iOS , and properly use the "Display" variant, per Apple's recommendations.

Education

2006 — 2007
ITP at NYU Tisch
New York, NY

I left this incredible program after an internship at Apple turned into a full time job.

1995 — 1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
New York University

My previous life as an actor.

Awards

2016

Easy location sharing

2016

US Patent: Setting a reminder that is triggered by a target user device

2015

Streaming media presentation system

2015

Message user interfaces for capture and transmittal of media and location content

2012
US9888058B2

Sending files from one device to another device over a network

2012

Setting a reminder that is triggered by a target user device

2010

See all on Google Patent Search

Contact

Instagram
Twitter