playground

role
Product Designer, Engineer
date
Mid 2025–present, on and off

overview

Playground is our internal site for designers to share work. I started as a consult: sit with the team, give direction, leave. I took more ownership as it went, and did a lot of the visual revamp.

The landing page needed a point of view. I added a curator voice that greets you with a read of what is happening in the work.

That piece went full-stack. I built the frontend through the backend, and set up the connection to our LLM provider so the curator could write from the posts.

A walk through the current Playground.
Playground feed titled Works on display, with posts including Item Check, a Cash App and Roblox clip, Buzz Memory Experiments, Lightning Lake sunglasses, a dashboard, and a proto container idea.
Works on display. Posts sit in a masonry of stills, clips, and writeups.
Playground item view for Goose Avatar Creator, with a Gloopie Creator video on the left and title, tags, likes, and contributors on the right.
Opening a post. Media on the left, credits and tags on the right.
Share work form with an upload media drop zone, title, description, links, and a posted by field.
The share form.
Playground visual design specs: canvas, panel, hairline, secondary, ink, and dark surface colors; typography; button, input, and card components; spacing, radii, and motion timings.
Visual design choices. Color, type, space, shape, and motion on one sheet.