Dan Moreno - Challenging the status quo as a designer

Imagine your first traditional “product design” job is designing the Snapchat messaging UX for millions of people across the globe…

Well that’s what Dan Moreno’s journey looked like as an engineer turned designer.

So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his 5+ years designing Snapchat as well as his new role at a rocket ship startup called Captions.

Some highlights:

• Dan’s formula for presenting design ideas
• How Dan grew his visual skills as an engineer
• Inside look at the AR exploration team at Snapchat
• How to get the CEO of Snap excited about your idea
• Why designing at a startup brings more responsibility
• How Dan rethought what Snapchat messaging could be
• a lot more

• Snap’s Lens Studio
• Andrew McPhee (Dan’s first manager at Snap)
• Gaurav Misra (founder of Captions)
• Pop a component plugin for Figma