Hi, my name is Matthew Ström.

I'm a design lead at Bitly.

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Products I’ve worked on:

WSJ.com, one of the world’s most trusted news sources.
SoundCloud Go, SoundCloud’s premium subscription offering.
Spacetime, an app for remote teams.
Argos, a content marketing analytics platform.
SAP Fiori, software powering large-scale commercial operations.

Things I’ve written:

03/10/19	The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
03/03/19	Switching to variable fonts
02/24/19	Compounding design, expiring design
02/16/19	Optimize for learning
02/10/19	How to take your team's creative pulse
01/20/19	All the books I read in 2018
01/13/19	Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway
12/27/18	How To Have More Inclusive Meetings
12/13/18	Who Are Design Systems For?
12/05/18	We'll Fix It Later
11/21/18	The Design System You Already Have
11/12/18	Just-in-time Design
10/17/18	Research, Empathy, Simplicity, Speed
08/31/18	Designing With Code
07/29/18	The 1-hour Design Principles Workshop
06/10/18	My Management Philosophy
06/03/18	Making WSJ.com more accessible
05/14/18	Agile & Anxiety
03/25/18	Crystal Ball 1-on-1s
02/19/18	Really Bad Design Exercises
02/11/18	Flight Crews Don't Decide Where To Fly
01/06/18	Why the Web Will Win
12/28/17	My favorite job interview question
12/11/17	Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com
11/14/17	What makes a good design principle?
04/13/17	How to get the best design feedback from your team
08/03/16	Design Better Data Tables
07/27/16	Datum Ipsum: Designing real-time visualizations with realistic placeholder data
02/08/16	Tiny Data Visualizations
12/12/15	Mind the Gap: Designing graphs with missing data
11/11/15	Goldilocks Your Graphs
07/15/15	Well-Designed Interfaes Look Boring
01/07/15	Towards Better Creative Feedback
05/16/14	Asymmetrical Symmetry
05/15/14	Make It 'til You Make It
05/13/14	Better Problem Solving: Unask the Question
05/08/14	Taking Credit for Success
05/06/14	What Happens When Things Go Wrong
04/09/14	Practice Makes perfect
01/28/14	Be Curious
01/18/14	Working to Work
12/02/13	A Website To Call My Own

Talks I’ve given:

10/15/18	Tech Inclusion SF
09/18/18	Design Driven NYC (video)
05/27/18	Tech Inclusion NYC
08/15/17	Data Storytelling NY
11/02/16	Graphical Web 2016: Tiny Data Visualizations (slides)
10/09/16	OpenCamp 2016: Datum Ipsum (slides)
07/21/16	Brooklyn.JS: WebVR with aframe.js
01/25/16	D3.js NYC: Tiny Data visualizations (video)
04/18/13	Pecha Kucha: The Creatives Must Be Crazy (video)

Companies I’ve started:

Eleven, a free monthly music magazine.
CTY, a civic technology company.
Planetary, a digital product development agency.

Side projects I maintain:

Datum Ipsum, a placeholder data generator.
Airframe, a frontend prototyping kit.