Design Engineering, Tinder Labs
NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
INNOVATION, PROTOTYPING, ETC
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Sparking innovation one match at a time
As the first design engineer hire at Tinder, I worked across a portfolio of initiatives within the Labs team and the wider company.
Working directly with a highly diverse team across product, design, engineering, marketing, research, and more, I built high-fidelity prototypes and internal tools in whichever medium needed, often demoing and presenting concepts to other teams, senior leadership, members of the executive suite, and board members.
My work is covered under a non-disclosure agreement, but one of the most recent and public projects our team shipped was Tinder's Double Date feature, which allowed users to pair up and match with another user and their friend.
Concept PrototypingDesign. Build. Evaluate.
As the sole design engineer at Tinder, it was one of my direct responsibilities to design and ensure these prototypes worked and tested well. Ideating and building concepts through rapid iteration cycles allowed us to test and explore novel experimental features before committing extensive engineering resources, and secured us data that helped center discussions and shape company roadmaps.
Prototyping SystemsSynthesizing & Scaling
This included building series of component libraries across design tooling and codebases optimized for concept validation, realigning and documenting new standards that bridged gaps between disciplines for faster turnaround.
The systems enabled designers and engineers to spin up interactive prototypes independently while maintaining consistency with Tinder's design language often saving days and weeks (sometimes months!) of the design and engineering team's time across pillars, empowering the broader design and engineering teams to scale their efforts across their own company pillars and initiatives.