Designers in California

Amanda Linden is a UX Director at Amazon Business and AI Design Leader with an extensive career spanning some of tech's most influential companies. She has held senior design leadership roles at Meta, Facebook, Asana, Intuit, and Yahoo!, driving product design across enterprise, AI, and consumer platforms. Known for simplifying complex systems and leading large-scale rebrands, Amanda brings a rare combination of strategic vision and hands-on design leadership to every organization she joins.

Chris Messina, known as Factory Joe, is a product leader and designer credited with inventing the hashtag (#) for use on Twitter, fundamentally reshaping how the world organizes online conversation. With over a decade of experience in social technologies, he has held notable roles at Google, Uber, and a range of early-stage startups. His work sits at the intersection of product strategy and human-centered design, with a consistent focus on building tools that shape digital culture.

California-based product designer at Discord with award-winning work and 25+ collaborations with early-stage startups.

Eric Sin is a designer with 20+ years of experience spanning brand identity and product design, with a focus on 0-to-1 environments across industries ranging from streaming and fintech to mobility and AI tools. Currently serving as Head of Design at Victory+, a live sports streaming platform, he leads brand and product design while continuing to take on select freelance and consulting work

Karri Saarinen is a Finnish designer and entrepreneur based in Del Mar, California, serving as Co-founder, CEO, and Lead Product Designer at Linear. With a distinguished career that includes roles as Principal Designer at Airbnb and Founding Designer at Coinbase, he brings deep expertise in product design and company building to his work crafting modern software tools for high-performance teams.