John Falcone is

John Falcone is

·Inferring
·Baking
·Calculating

about product, design, and the future.

about product, design,
and the future.

Currently building product with Desteia and community with Double Diamond.

Previously designed at Microsoft and Oracle.

Based in NYC.

Currently building product with Desteia
and community with
Double Diamond.
Previously designed at
Microsoft and Oracle.
Based in NYC.

Currently building product with Desteia and community with Double Diamond.

Previously designed at Microsoft and Oracle.

Based in NYC.

Media

Media

February 2026

February 2026

Chief Design Officer at Shopify

Chief Design Officer at Shopify

Building high-craft design culture at scale, restructuring 170+ designers around fluid teams, requiring designers to ship code, and leading sweeping organizational change while staying hands-on.

Building high-craft design culture at scale, restructuring 170+ designers around fluid teams, requiring designers to ship code, and leading sweeping organizational change while staying hands-on.

January 2026

January 2026

Appstar at Danger Testing

Appstar at Danger Testing

Why apps can be culture, how to build at the speed of memes, launching 50+ projects in one year, treating software like songs, making users the main character, and the birth of a new category.

Why apps can be culture, how to build at the speed of memes, launching 50+ projects in one year, treating software like songs, making users the main character, and the birth of a new category.

December 2025

December 2025

Head of Design at FLORA

Head of Design at FLORA

What it means to design for creative flow state, building a unified workspace for 50+ AI models, and using a node-on-canvas interface to make creative workflows visual and repeatable.

What it means to design for creative flow state, building a unified workspace for 50+ AI models, and using a node-on-canvas interface to make creative workflows visual and repeatable.

November 2025

November 2025

Head of Design at Graphite

Head of Design at Graphite

Designing at startups, demoing Graphite's Agent interface and v0 prototypes, how design and engineering can work in parallel, should designers code, and hiring great designers.

Designing at startups, demoing Graphite's Agent interface and v0 prototypes, how design and engineering can work in parallel, should designers code, and hiring great designers.

October 2025

October 2025

Newsletter by Monish Khara

Newsletter by Monish Khara

Grafik Paragraph Magazine covered Double Diamond's founding story, the vision behind our long-form IRL conversation format, and some fun takes on how AI is reshaping product design.

Grafik Paragraph Magazine covered Double Diamond's founding story, the vision behind our long-form IRL conversation format, and some fun takes on how AI is reshaping product design.

October 2025

October 2025

Sr. Director of Product Design at Ramp

Sr. Director of Product Design at Ramp

Maintaining velocity at scale, building Ramp Labs, the generational shift in design, hiring super ICs, and the convergence of product-building roles.

Maintaining velocity at scale, building Ramp Labs, the generational shift in design, hiring super ICs, and the convergence of product-building roles.

September 2025

September 2025

Head of Design at Hebbia

Head of Design at Hebbia

Designing agentic experiences, the power of “chat” as a human<>intelligence interface, a live demo, trends he’s seeing in design work and design hiring, and some great audience Q&A.

Designing agentic experiences, the power of “chat” as a human<>intelligence interface, a live demo, trends he’s seeing in design work and design hiring, and some great audience Q&A.

© 2026 John Falcone

© 2026 John Falcone

© 2026 John Falcone