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I'm Pantelis “pahn-ta-LEASE”
A design leader with a knack for building relatable consumer products and growing the impactful, supportive design teams that make it happen.
Currently VP of Design at Flex in San Francisco. Led similar things at Fast, Turo and Hopper. Writing on Substack and speaking about product design with whomever wants to listen.
Say 👋🏼 and follow me on Twitter @pantelisak
Recent Articles ⏱
The Designer's Quality Dilemma
Depth, speed or number of projects—choose two.
Popular Articles 🔥
The Case for Solving Core Problems
If you don’t already, you should know Fast. Fast solves a core problem with the internet that you likely deal with all the time.
Users Don’t Want Filters, They Want Better Content
People don’t want your filters UI, i.e. a list of options to sort through. People want better, more relevant content and help making difficult trade-offs, in as few steps as possible.
The Notification Problem
Improving Hopper's user onboarding metrics through trial and error.
Designing For Business
The reason Product Designers create polished product experiences is ultimately business, and that’s a good thing.
Butt-Booking: Or, How to Sell Things on Mobile
How the Hopper team and I built our QuickTap Booking feature, and how making it too easy was a poor user experience.
Designing Goal-Oriented User Onboarding in 4 Steps
How to be more deliberate, and effective, with your user onboarding.