I’ve been at Opendoor for 5 years and have watched it grow from from 15 to 1,300 people. I’ve learned a lot by making a lot of mistakes along the way. Here are 12 things I wish I knew 5 years ago, when I first started at the company.
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Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor.
I’m a Senior Art Director on the brand design team, where I support marketing campaigns for both home sellers and buyers. …
Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team 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. …
Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team 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…
Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team at Opendoor.
I am a senior brand designer on the brand team. Most of my time is spent on designing and building landing pages. …
Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team 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. …
Open Book is a series of interviews where you get to meet our creative design team 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.
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