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The designers who made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
11Benji Taylor
Head of Design for X and SpaceXAI
11Ryo Lu
Product designer and builder
9Katie Dill
Head of Design at Stripe
9Ammaar Reshi
Product and Design Lead at Google DeepMind
9Meaghan Choi
Design leader for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic
9Hayden
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI | Software Engineer, Product Designer and Technology Entrepreneur
8Rogie King
Product Designer at Figma; artist, designer, and programmer
8Ben South
Co-founder and CEO at Variant
8Loredana Crisan
Chief Design Officer at Figma
8Jessica Strelioff
Founder and Creative Director of Goodside
8Paul Bakaus
CEO & Founder, Renaissance Geek Inc.
8Andrés
Founder and Creative Director at Rampant Studio
7adam ho
Head of Design at fal; independent designer and image maker at Adam Ho, I.S.P.
7Evil Rabbit
Head of Creative Design at Vercel
7John Pham
Head of Product Design at Vercel
7Diego Zaks
VP of Design at Ramp
7Karri Saarinen
Co-Founder and CEO of Linear
6Raphael Salaja
Design Engineer
6Samuel Kraft
Design Engineer at Raycast
6shadcn
Design engineer on Vercel's AI team
6David Haz
Creative developer and designer building interactive web experiences
6Matt Perry
Creator of Motion, the web animation library
6Amelia Wattenberger 🪷
Designer and developer exploring AI interfaces and data visualization
5Ian Silber
Product designer; formerly OpenAI
5Charlie Deets
Product designer at The Browser Company
5Jakub Krehel
Founding design engineer at Interfere
5Josh Puckett
Co-founder of Iteration and Upperstudy
5Devon Govett
Engineer at Adobe building React Aria; creator of Parcel
4Joshua To
VP, Product Design for Wearables at Meta
4Steve Ruiz
Founder & CEO at tldraw; developer and designer building creative tools for the web.
4Emmet Connolly
3Jenny Wen
Head of Design at Cursor
3Nate Parrott
Designer and developer
Gavin Nelson
Interaction designer at OpenAI
3Jorn van Dijk
CEO and co-founder of Framer; co-founder of Festina
3Zeh Fernandes
Head of Design at Resend
3Emil Kowalski
Designer and educator at Linear
3rauno
Design Engineer at Vercel
2Mariana Castilho
Product Designer and Design Engineer
2Joel Lewenstein
Head of Design at Anthropic
David Webster
Google Labs. Head of UX.
2Stephen Haney
Founder of Paper
Ian Guisard
Design lead for Uber’s design systems
Paavan Buddhdev
Product Designer at Granola
2cam worboys
Product design leader at Cash App
1David Hoang
VP of Design at Atlassian; writer of Proof of Concept
1Gui Seiz
Design Director of AI at Figma
1Nad Chishtie
Founding designer and Head of Design at Lovable
1Flora Guo
Design engineer
1dar
Chief Designer at 1X