Hear from Doni about growing up in Tanzania, starting his own business, and how advertising can do social good. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I’m a Senior Art Director on the brand design team, where I support marketing campaigns for both home sellers and buyers. …

Hear from Melody about establishing a research culture at Opendoor and how her identity as a first-generation American has shaped her. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I’m a user experience researcher. Because we’re a lean team right now, I work across most products with an emphasis on our seller and buyer experience. …

Hear from Claire about pursuing design as a study, what ballet has taught her, and getting back into illustrating. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I’m a brand designer! I partner closely with our marketing team to design everything from multi-channel campaigns to signage in Opendoor homes. My focus lately has been to evolve the visual language…

Hear from Nicolas about crossing the Atlantic to work at Opendoor, why disagreeing is healthy, and how exercise is essential to his work. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I am a senior brand designer on the brand team. Most of my time is spent on designing and building landing pages. …

Hear from Yuri about building customer empathy, immigrating to the US, and his YouTube channel. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I lead the product design of the home shopping experience, which includes the feed, search tab, detail page, filters and our design system. …

Hear about Annie’s love for architecture, ceramics, and Michelle Obama. — Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor. What do you do at Opendoor? I’m the design manager for our consumer products team, which includes seller experience, trade-ins, partnerships, and mortgages. …

Having only worked at a large Silicon Valley company before Opendoor, I didn’t realize how much I took for granted. That even the language that I spoke day to day was steeped in Product-Speak. (“How do these eng stories contribute toward our KPIs? …

At Opendoor, we give offers on homes before we see them in person. This involves a whole lot of behind-the-scenes work, which includes looking at photos of the home. Our photo carousel is one of our most-used pieces of UI, but it’s also one of our least efficient. …

I use Slack every day and love it. It’s a really well-made product and it’s clear that a lot of care and heart went into it. But I’m a nit-picky designer with too free much time! So here’s an unsolicited redesign that addresses my issues with navigation, notifications, and search. Faster Navigation …