Background

I'm David Wright, a product designer living and working in the San Francisco bay area. I'm a pragmatist who loves bringing shape and structure to ambiguous problems. I started my career in journalism creating daily interactive graphics, but soon discovered product design and was instantly hooked. In 2013, I left NPR, journalism and the East Coast to join Twitter. I spend my free time fixing up our old house, trying to keep my children out of trouble, and not reading a growing pile of New Yorkers.

Currently

Product design manager, Stripe

I lead the design teams responsible for supporting Stripe's Revenue and Reporting products. We build world-class product experiences that help businesses of all sizes send and receive payments, and manage their businesses online.

Places I've worked

Designer, Chorus

At Chorus, I designed experiences that help people stay committed to their health and fitness goals. Our intensely collaborative team of 10 built and shipped an experience that relied on social accountability to help people stay healthy.

Designer, Coda

At Coda, I helped build a new kind of collaborative document (like a Google Doc) that gives non-programmers the ability to create powerful applications to help get their work done.

Staff designer, Twitter

At Twitter, I focused on creating foundational design systems to help make Twitter a great experience for everyone. Along with Dave Bellona, I led the design efforts on Twitter Lite – a ground up responsive redesign of the Twitter web stack. I led the successful effort to redesign the onboarding flow that increased sign ups and reduced churn. I helped ship a bunch of other stuff along the way, too.

Design director, NPR

At NPR, I led the teams responsible for the design and UX for all of NPR’s digital products. I was on the team that researched, concepted and launched NPR One. As an individual contributor, I led the design efforts on Planet Money for iPhone, NPR Books, Live Music Events and others.

Wayback

Prior to NPR, I spent three years as a Senior Site designer at USA TODAY. Before that, I was a UI designer at SmartBrief and a multimedia developer at Knight-Ridder/Tribune, where I created editorial graphics by carving ActionScript into stone tablets. My full work history is documented on LinkedIn.

Talks and interviews