Ryan Gilbert

Ryan Gilbert

THE WINDOW SEAT

@rjgilbert · beehiiv

Drafted Aug 2, 2026

Design Leader

Creator of Workspaces, the weekly archive that has opened more than 500 real home offices to the internet — and photographed a surprising amount of this bench at their desks. Days at beehiiv; nights still belong to the Saturday edition.

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  Danny Trinh@dtrinh
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  Director of product design at Meta, after building social products at Snap, Zenly, Sensei, Free, Path, and Digg.

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  Emily Campbell@elou
  Design Leader

  VP of Design at HackerRank and creator of Shape of AI, the living catalog that names the patterns behind human-centered AI.

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  Kevin Wong@kvwong
  Design Leader

  VP of Design at Webflow, steering its AI-native web vision after leading design at Messenger and Airbnb.

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