Shirley

Shirley

Working on things in New York, she/her

About

Never not building things

Side Projects

2023

Made these food grade silicone slow feeders to help dogs slow down while eating. The current ones in the market just weren't large enough, challenging enough, and easy for storage.

2019

Once upon a time, my ceramics were hype 🍵

Work Experience

2023 — 2023
Lead Product Designer at Syndicate

A short stint due to a company restructure. Learned a lot regardless.

2021 — 2022
NY

Creative direction for brand, messaging, and product strategy.

2017 — 2021
San Francisco

First hire & designer at threads. My role went from leading product to evolving as a hybrid design manager. We built out www, iOS, and Android as a unit. Additionally worked on brand & creative direction, as well as working with operations closely in DEI initiatives.

2016 — 2017
Product designer at Facebook
MPK

Design for machine learning tools for AR Studio and Speech.

2010 — 2016
Design at Seed & Series A startups
San Francisco

I get asked a lot why I worked at so many start ups in short stints (~a year or less) instead of going into a large company earlier in my career. I loved working with small teams and many industries. However, being the first designer or founding designer for many — there's tech debt and navigating shortsighted infrastructure decisions optimized for testing.

You move consistently at a pace mimicking hackathons that lead to burnout or repetition that leads to work injuries.