About this project
Audius
Almost eight years leading design at a decentralized music platform, from founding designer to full product ownership.
The role
In early 2018 I was freelancing part-time when I pitched a logo design to the Audius founders. I got the project, and a few months after completing it, they flew me out to SF to interview for a full-time position as the founding designer.
I led the design team for almost eight years. Under my leadership, my team contributed to product design, brand identity, motion, and graphic design, and more. Its impact showed across every surface. Over time the role grew to include product management responsibilities too; writing specs, setting priorities, and making calls on what shipped and when.
I also actively made direct contributions to the codebase, shipping bug fixes, design changes, and new features alongside my design and product responsibilities.
The product
Audius is a decentralized music platform built to give artists more control, more ownership, and a more direct relationship with their audience.
We were early enough to consumer crypto that most of what we built, we figured out without a playbook. Entire categories of companies now exist solving problems we had to figure out ourselves.
The platform grew to 7 million monthly listeners at its peak, with over 250,000 artists and 250 million total streams.