I was the first product designer hired at Pinterest under co-founder Evan Sharp. As part of that, I worked on almost every part of the product at least once. I also helped grow Pinterest’s world-class design from just me to over 30 incredibly talented individuals across product design, brand design, content design and user research disciplines.
Some of the projects that I worked on at Pinterest include:
Rich Pins
I designed Rich Pins, a system that shows helpful information from the source website for different types of content. We launched with Recipe Pins, Movie Pins and Product Pins.
I also spearheaded Place Pins, which were an extension of the Rich Pins framework that allowed geolocation data to be displayed alongside pins. Boards with Place Pins would display them on an interactive map to make trip planning simple.
Secret Boards
Secret Boards allow users to create boards that were hidden from the public for private planning and collaboration, while not disrupting the social nature of the platform.
Profile
I designed the first comprehensive redesign of Pinterest's user profiles, introducing board covers and focusing more heavily on letting users express their identities through the platform.
Discovery
I worked on various projects in Pinterest's Discovery pillar, such as supporting the launch of Guided Pins and coming up with novel layouts for increasing the prominence of Related Pins, which massively increased user engagement.
Growth and Analytics
I also worked on various projects supporting the Growth team at Pinterest, redesigning signup flows to increase conversion, and creating new rich widgets for showcasing pins, boards, and profiles across the Web.
I also helped make the first version of Analytics, which focused on helping our initial core audience of creators and small businesses understand how they were performing on Pinterest.
PinKit
I built a Javascript framework that allowed designers to quickly iterate on layouts for individual pins. Designers could also use PinKit to rapidly prototype collection pages with real data from the API without spending hours recreating elaborate skeuomorphic pins in Photoshop.