Karri SaarinenFormerly Directed design at Coinbase.
Description
Co-Founder, CEO at Linear. Principal Designer & Design Systems at Airbnb. Previously, designed Coinbase, co-founded Kippt, Sendtoinc and Rails Girls. Y combinator alumn. From Finland.
Previously the Principal Designer of Airbnb, and creative director the Airbnb Design Language System (DLS) work. Have worked on multiple large scale and high impact project such as Airbnb typeface Cereal, redesigning the homepage and redesigning the mobile apps. Advising the overall design through the design system work and guidelines.
In the past, I've founding design at Coinbase, co-founded Y Combinator backed companies Kippt & Inc (acquired by Coinbase) and a media company ArcticStartup.