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October 2021
Jeremy Cai, Founder & CEO, Italic
July 2021
Packy McCormick, Founder, Not Boring
January 2021
Rachel Drori, Founder and CEO, Daily Harvest
Nik Sharma, Founder and CEO, Sharma Brands
February 2020
Dennis Crowley, Founder and Executive Chairman, Foursquare
Samantha Wasser, Founder and Executive Creative Director, by CHLOE.
Helena Price Hambrecht, Founder and CEO, Haus
Emmett Shine, Founder and Executive Creative Director, Pattern Brands
January 2020
Adam Baitch, Head of Product, Atom Finance
Arden Klemmer & Sabrina Fonseca, Director of Product Design & Strategy, &Partners
Corey Manicone, Founder and CEO, Zuul
November 2019
Rachel Blank & Katie O'Keefe, Founder/GM & Head of Creative, Rory
Jake Poses, Founder and CEO, Jumprope
Mason Levey, Founder and CEO, WAVE Meditation & Y7 Studio
Tom Takigayama, Director of Product Design, Justworks
September 2019
Liz Danzico, VP of Design, NPR
Fabrice Sergent, President & Managing Partner, Bandsintown
Nicola Korzenko, General Manager, PodFund
Tina Snow Le, Senior Art Director, Spotify
May 2019
Rebecca Greene, Chief Product Officer, Handy
Heiko Waechter, UX Design Manager, Google
Nathan Igdaloff, Head of Product, Atlas Obscura
Jesse Rose, Head of Product, The Infatuation & Zagat
April 2019
Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram
Tom Daly, Product Leader, Boxee/Samsung/Spacious
Tanya Malan, Director of Product Design & UX, Bonobos
Ben Running, Head of Design, Luminary
March 2019
Jill Nussbaum, Product Design Manager, Instagram
Barbara DeWilde, Executive Creative Director, New York Times
Liesel Kipp, SVP Product & Design, Discovery
Satu Pelkonen, Visual Design Manager, Squarespace
February 2019
Gabe Schindler, Senior Product Designer, Oscar Health
Jen Cullem, Director of Product Design, Spotify
Cameron Koczon, Founder and Partner, Fictive Kin
Gabriel Valdivia, Partner, Jigsaw
December 2018
Francois de Lame & Justin Ternullo, Founder & Chief Design Officer, Policygenius
Lee Mayer, Founder and CEO, Havenly
Sarah Mills, Head of Design, Consensys
Kate O'Loughlin, COO, SuperAwesome
November 2018
Michelle Bacharach, Founder and CEO, Findmine
Joseph Delaney, Chelsea Atwell, Mark Goldstein, Founders and Partners, Zero Studios
Lilla Cosgrove & Alex Friedman, Co-Founder, Head of Product & Founder/CEO, LOLA & Candid Co.
October 2018
Russell Hamilton, Principal, Connection Lab
Claire Goldwitz, VP Product, Stash
Brynn Putnam, Founder and CEO, Mirror
September 2018
Matthew Ström, Frmr. Design Director, WSJ
Laura Hahn, Head of Design, Priceline
Jake Appel, Senior Advisor, Behavioral Insights Team
Andrew Crow, VP Design, Strava
June 2018
Rachael Blumenfeld, Senior Product Designer, Dia&Co
Jesse Ragan, Typeface Designer and Co-Founder, XYZ Type
Bryan Tsao, VP of Product, Namely
Nick Gavronsky, Co-Founder and Head of Product, Trade Coffee
April 2018
Sarah Adler, Co-Founder/CTO, Spoon University
Monica Parra, Design Director of Product, JW Player
Zack Davenport, Lead Brand Designer, Vimeo
Tyler Davidson, Head of Product Design for Marquee, Goldman Sachs
February 2018
Xiaodi Zhang, Chief Product Officer, 1stdibs
Stephen Spyropoulos, VP of UX & Design, HBC
Lara Hogan, Co-Founder, Wherewithall
January 2018
Heather Cassano, Head of Product Design, Google
Krystle Mobayeni, Founder/CEO, BentoBox
Mike McDerment, Founder/CEO, FreshBooks
November 2017
Tania Philip, VP of Product, Shutterstock
Ryan Hines & Orr Shtuhl, Lead Designers, Wirecutter
Nir Eyal, Entrepreneur and Author, "Hooked"
September 2017
Tyson Gach, Product Designer, Thoughtbot
Una Kravets, Senior UI Engineer, Digital Ocean
Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineer, Sayspring
Rachel Starobinsky, Director of Strategy & Innovation, TPG Architecture
July 2017
Chandra Recchi, VP, Style and Studio Director, Coach
Cap Watkins, VP of Design, BuzzFeed
Jess Brown, Director of UX, VICE
Mark Webster, Founder/CEO, SaySpring
June 2017
Justin Gallagher, VP Product, Trello
Steve Vassallo, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Steven Heller, SVA
Connie Chau, Rachel Klausner, and Francesco Fraioli, Bluecore
May 2017
Vítor Lourenço, Partner, Expa
Deepa Subrmaniam, VP Product, Kickstarter
Jonathan Smiley, Product Designer, Facebook
Bradford Shellhammer, Head of Personalization, eBay
March 2017
Tyler Hopf, Creative Director, IrisVR
Diana Mounter, Design Systems Lead, GitHub
Eric Nuzum, SVP Content, Audible
February 2017
Breonna Rodriguez, Lead Digital Designer, Sesame Street
Dewey Reid, Executive Creative Director and VP, CNN
Christopher Daly, Head of Product Design and UX, Sotheby's
February 2017
Dewey Reid, VP & Executive Creative Director Digital, CNN
Christopher Daly, Head of Experience & Product Design, Sotheby's
Breonna Rodriguez, Lead Digital Designer, Sesame Street
January 2017
Kathryn Minshew and Yusuf Simonson, Founder/CEO and CTO, The Muse
Noah Levin, Head of UX, ClassPass
Emily Wengert, Group VP of UX, Huge
December 2016
Emery Wells, Founder and CEO, Frame.io
Alvin Zhou, Tasty (BuzzFeed)
Laney Caldwell, Product Lead, x.ai
Caroline Wurtzel, Design Lead, Bustle
November 2016
Bryan Berger, Product Design Lead, General Assembly
Jennifer Gergen, Design Director, Meetup
Kris Andrews, Director of Design, TeachersPayTeachers
September 2016
Melody Koh, Head of Product, Blue Apron
Tom Harman, Design Manager, BuzzFeed
Walter Geer, Creative Director, Verve Mobile
Alan Williams, Creative Director, Imaginary Forces
July 2016
Amber Cartwright, Design Manager, Airbnb
Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman
Jen Simmons, Executive Producer, The Web Ahead
Verena Haller, SVP of Design, Equinox Hotels
Braden Kowitz, Design Partner, Google Ventures
June 2016
Tomer Sharon, Head of UX, WeWork
Mandy Cotta, Head of Design, Burt's Bees Baby & Kids
Hilary Greenbaum, Director of Design, The Whitney Museum
Simon Corry, Designer
May 2016
Billy Seabrook, Global Head of Design, Citi
Abigail Gray, VP of Design, LearnVest
Jaime Strollo, Lead Product Designer, Betterment
April 2016
Andrew Ofstad, Founder and Head of Product, Airtable
Dana Chisnell, Co-Founder, Center for Civic Design
Greg Hathaway, Creative Director, Maple
Jillian Bromley, Lead Designer, Boxed
March 2016
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsi
Lesley Fleishman, Partner, Work & Co
Jon Troutman, Founder, Canary
Jeff Miller, VP of Product Design, Poppin
February 2016
Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer, Adobe
Jennifer Thibault, 18F
Ben Babcock and Ben Running, Head of Design and Research, Jet.com
Katy Kasmai, Google
January 2016
Gary Chou, Founder, Orbital
Aaron Weyenberg, Head of Design, TED
Joel Califa, Head of Design, DigitalOcean
Soraya Darabi, Co-Founder ZADY and Foodspotting
December 2015
Josh Long, Lead Designer, Oscar
Sara Chipps, Founder, Jewelbots
Anil Dash, Founder and Blogger
Gail Anderson, Author and Professor
November 2015
Paul Ford (@ftrain), Founder, Postlight
Michael Ciancio, Creative Director, Refinery29
Rich Arnold, Lead Product Designer, Vine
Anna Bakst and Nicola Glass, President and SVP of Accessories Design, Michael Kors
October 2015
Rohun Gholkar, VP of Product, NewsCred
Scott Stein and Eamonn Bourke, VP of Product and Design Director, USA Today
Jules Erhardt, Head of NY Studio, ustwo
Talia Fisher and Ben Gelinas, Lead UX Designer and Creative Director, JackThreads
September 2015
Michael Moskowitz, Global Chief Curator, eBay
Liz Wessel and Matt Powers, Founder/CEO and Head of Product, WayUp
Stewart Katz, VP UX and Engineering, Warner Music
Mollie Ruskin, US Digitial Service
June 2015
Cap Watkins, VP of Design, Buzzfeed
Ben Hindman, Founder and CEO, Splash
Julie Logan, Director of Brand Strategy, Giphy
Bradford Shellhammer, Founder and CEO, Bezar
May 2015
Nobu Nakaguchi, Founder, Zola
Liran Okanon, Lead Designer, Mic
Henrik Werdelin, Founder, BarkBox
Jordan Rudess, ROLI / Dream Theater
April 2015
Donald DeSantis, Founder and CPO, Hightower
Simon Berg, Founder and CEO, Ceros
William Martin, Head of Product and UX, Floored
Mike Mignano, Head of Product, Aviary
March 2015
Jeremy Le Van, Founder, Sunrise
Jeff Chapin, Founder, Casper
Mark Zeller, Head of Toy Design, Fisher Price
Deepa Subramaniam, Head of Product, charity:water
David Goligorsky, Head of Design, YieldMo
February 2015
Alex Blumberg, Founder and CEO, Gimlet Media
David Lee, Chief Creative Officer, Squarespace
Jessica Karle, Head of Product Design, Paperless Post
Kelly Sutton, Founder, LayerVault
January 2015
Scott Belsky, Founder and CEO, Behance
Matthew Tully, Director of Digital Product, Harry's
Aneesh Bhoopathy, Founder, Point
Abe Geiger and Krissi Xenaki, CEO and Head of Design, Shake
December 2014
Kim Bost, Design Lead, Cover
Andrew Chen, Director of Product, Gilt
Manuel Lima, Design Lead, Codecademy
Paula Guntaur, Designer, FiftyThree
November 2014
Nir Eyal, Author, "Hooked: Habit-Forming Products"
Diana Mounter, Senior Product Designer, Etsy
Tim Riley, Director of Online Experience, Warby Parker
Zack Davenport, Brand Designer, Foursquare
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