Spencer Holtaway,Staff Product Designer
What I've been working on recently
Five apps, designed and built end to end. With AI doing more of the building, I spend more of my time on the parts I care about: how it feels in your hand, what it does when you’re not looking, and whether it’s worth coming back to.
About
Making things and hearing “thank you” at the end is what it’s all about for me.
I started out designing real-world experiences, then games at Zynga, then a long stretch in SaaS as Head of Design at Dialpad and Staff Product Designer at Calm.
Whether it's a phone system's admin settings, a carpool app for families or how someone feels when they open Calm, I take on the complexity so the person using it doesn't have to.
- Meet customers where they are.
- Make it worth coming back to.
- No dark patterns.
Chipstack Product & brand design 2025 – 2026
Red9 Product & brand design 2023 – 2024
Calm Staff Product Designer 2020 – 2024
Dialpad Head of Design 2016 – 2020
Shuddle Senior UX Designer 2014 – 2016
Zynga Lead UI Designer 2010 – 2014
Small London agencies Experiential, spatial and print design 2006 – 2010
Central Saint Martins BA Visual Communication 2003 – 2006