Tin Kadoic designs systems that scale to billions.

  • 2026 – Present
    Member of Design Staff — OpenAI ?
  • 2025 – 2026
    Head of Design, Core Consumer — DoorDash

    Directed end-to-end Core Consumer Design (homepage → post-checkout), leading a 20+ person cross-site organization of managers, designers, and specialists. Elevated craft into a strategic differentiator by aligning design systems, brand, and motion — improving product coherence, execution velocity, and overall experience quality across the consumer funnel.

  • 2023 – 2025
    Design Leadership — Instagram

    Directed Instagram's design systems organization, rebuilding the team and launching the company's latest system to raise craft, coherence, and velocity across the platform.

  • 2020 – 2023
    Design Leadership — Instagram

    Led product design for Instagram Reels, overseeing 9 cross-functional teams serving 2.5B users; scaled watch time from 0% to 50% and shaped short-form video strategy across the platform.

  • 2017 – 2020
    Design Leadership — Airbnb

    Led Core Guest Flow design across web and native platforms, redefining the Search → Book experience and establishing a scalable PDP architecture to drive marketplace coherence and long-term velocity.

  • 2017
    Product Creative Director — Apple

    via SYPartners

  • 2014 – 2017
    Executive Creative Director — Five

    Led creative and product design across New York and Zagreb, building and directing a cross-site team while driving 50% of new business growth. Opened and scaled new offices, partnered directly with founders and Fortune 500 clients (Squarespace, Marriott, Nanit), and delivered end-to-end mobile and platform strategies.

  • 2009 – 2014
    Co-founder & CEO — Brlog

    Co-founder, CCO, and CEO of Brlog, a boutique Interaction Design Studio.

Community

  • 2014 – 2020 Core team member at IxDA Europe
  • 2014 – 2017 Meetup organizer at Design First, New York
  • 2014 Chapter founder at IxDA Croatia
  • 2014 Jury — Croatian Biennale of Design
  • 2009 - 2015 Lecturer at School of Design, Zagreb

Coverage

  • Mr Joe – Culture of great work with Tin Kadoic
  • Creative Voyage Interview
  • Etch Epics Interview
  • Interview CX.hr
  • Interview Netokracija
  • People of 2017 Jutarnji.hr
  • Making the case for design sprints Sprint Stories
  • Where Prototypes Fail Five
  • The Simple Guide to Product Testing InVision
  • Design is the Experience uxdesign.cc
  • Taking Responsive a Step Further uxdesign.cc

Talks

  • 2019 Quebec City — WAQ
  • 2017 San Francisco — Smashing Conference
  • 2015 New York — QCon
  • 2015 Las Vegas — Future Insights
  • 2015 Bergen — Booster
  • 2014 Edinburgh — UX Scotland

Links

  • Blog
  • Instagram
  • Threads
  • LinkedIn
  • Tumblr
  • Medium
  • Twitter

Contact

  • blackduke@gmail.com
  • Personal newsletter
  • Advising
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