Today we sat down with Ian Silber, a designer (and design manager!) at Instagram. We dig into his background, talk about taking bets on young designers, his key learnings in management, briefly diverge into cooking, and return back to his process for hiring at Instagram.


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Sponsor:

UENO

Ian on the Web:

Twitter
Dribbble
Website
Medium
Instagram
GitHub

Show Notes:

typeracer
37signals
Campaign Monitor
anotepad.com
Intab
Cookie Clicker
AdVenture Capitalist!
Josh Puckett
Steven Walker
Ryan O'Rourke
Soleio
Soleio on Design Details
Josh Puckett on Design Details
Hyperlapse
Layout
Boomerang
Chris Connolly
Figma
Project Comet
Principle
Flour + Water
Soylent
Blue Apron

Twitter Mentions