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Simon Rohrbach and the three years before Plain clicked
At Deliveroo, Simon Rohrbach learned to design for a company growing around him. At Plain, he had to learn how to make a company grow in the first place.
Jessica Ko Is Making the Folder Give Up Its Secrets
The former Google and Opendoor designer built Playbook around a stubborn idea: creative people should spend less time excavating folders and more time making the work that belongs inside them.
Sehan Sanjula Turned the Overnight Shift Into a Design Company
Zyner began with two laptops, months without a client and midnight calls from Colombo. Sehan Sanjula’s real product was not another design package - it was a way to make creative work arrive without the chase.
Ben Haynes Spent 22 Years Making the Database Feel Human
Before headless CMS had a name, a Brooklyn agency founder was tired of rebuilding the same back office. Two decades, five self-built versions and one beloved rabbit later, his workaround has become a lesson in patient software.