Nick Myers, former Fb lead, joins Patreon as the brand new Head of Design

Patreon is happy to welcome Nick Myers to our workforce as the brand new Head of Design. Nick brings over twenty years of expertise main design for among the world’s largest firms, like Fb and Fitbit. We’re proud to have Nick be part of the Patreon management workforce to stage up our product and empower our group of creators and members.

Learn on to be taught extra about Nick.

Inform us about your self.

I’m initially from Yorkshire, England, however I’ve lived within the Bay Space for about 27 years. I’ve spent twenty years within the design subject main product design, consumer analysis, model design, and content material groups for know-how firms, together with Fb (now Meta), Fitbit, and Trulia. Most lately, I used to be the Director of Product Design within the Neighborhood Client Merchandise workforce at Fb, the place I led numerous product design pillars within the Fb App, together with Teams, Occasions, Hashtags, Discovery, and extra.

What position/achievement stands out to you out of your 20 years of design expertise?

Trying again on my profession thus far, I’m most pleased with my position main design at Fitbit. I joined the corporate in 2013 — whereas it was nonetheless in its infancy, lengthy earlier than it was a family title — and was a part of the workforce liable for creating the best-selling health product that solid a wholly new path in wearable know-how. It was inspiring to construct a product that had main advantages to individuals’s general well being and well-being whereas defining a brand new market.

My time at Fb additionally had a huge effect on my profession. I led a workforce of product designers to enhance Fb’s consumer interface in Search, Pursuits, Information, and Discovery. Not solely have been we engaged on merchandise used on a worldwide scale, we have been constructing design experiences that shared essential data, together with facilities for the 2020 U.S. presidential election outcomes and COVID-19 data, and Fb’s Raise Black Voices Content material Hub. Being a part of a workforce devoted to uplifting voices and offering pertinent data on a worldwide scale was an extremely proud second for me.

What drew you to Patreon?

Patreon has great potential to assist creators. As a creator in each my skilled and private life (I paint too!), I’m keen to make use of my place to construct merchandise that empower your complete inventive group.

The creator financial system is on the rise, and Patreon’s position in creating an ecosystem of instruments that allow creators to construct careers round their passions is inspiring. For creators to harness their craft and obtain long-term success, we as customers want to position extra worth on their work, and I consider that Patreon is essential in making that occur.

I used to be additionally impressed by the management workforce at Patreon — they’re clear, communicative, and genuinely care concerning the work we’re doing and the individuals making it occur. All through my profession, I’ve seen that the standard of the management workforce makes a large distinction, not solely within the day-to-day experiences of the workforce but additionally when it comes to the enterprise’s general success.

What values are you going to guide with as the brand new Head of Design?

I’m keen about design and its influence on the merchandise all of us use. I consider good design and well-crafted merchandise are created while you keep curious, encourage collaboration, and talk successfully. For a product design workforce (or actually any workforce) to achieve success, it’s vital to observe empathy, foster a singular tradition, hunt down suggestions, and all the time keep hungry to be taught.

I additionally can not overstate the significance of range on groups, each when it comes to individuals and in considering. Not incorporating numerous views and experiences as a part of your course of is a large missed alternative that results in gaps in your design and general product. We see this within the creator financial system proper now, as sure teams are prioritized on content material platforms, whether or not by publicity and alternative, cost, or one thing else. To make sure a broad vary of people obtain a good likelihood within the creator financial system, we should construct with that as the main target, and that begins with ensuring the groups constructing the merchandise are numerous.

Patreon is rising quickly to construct industry-leading merchandise for the subsequent period of the creator financial system, and carrying these values into how we function as a workforce, and what we construct, is crucial.

What’s one thing most individuals wouldn’t find out about you?

I discussed earlier that I’m a painter, however I’ve additionally run 5 marathons and may remedy a Rubik’s Dice in about three minutes. And naturally, I’d be remiss to not point out that I’m a large Liverpool FC sports activities fan.