Daniel Burka
Director of Product and Design at Resolve To Save Lives
Daniel Burka
Director of Product and Design at Resolve To Save Lives
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Product and Design
2018 - Current
Director of product and design at Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies. My primary project is Simple.
Co-founder
1999
Silverorange is a boutique web agency that works on wide variety of challenges around the world. Clients include Mozilla, Hippo Education, EM:RAP, TinEye, CourseHost, and Duolingo.
Design Partner
2012 - 2018
Daniel works with GV's wide array of portfolio companies on their design and product challenges — everything from brand to product to strategy.
Design Lead
2012 - 2012
Ran the mobile team on a core Google product.
Co-founder
2011 - 2012
Milk was a small start-up, co-founded with Kevin Rose. The team built a mobile product called Oink and had another product in the pipleline when the company was acquired by Google.
Director of Design
2009 - 2011
TinySpeck built a game called Glitch and then pivoted to become Slack, the popular communications platform.
Creative Director
2005 - 2009
Digg is a popular news aggregation service and a pioneer in social networking, founded by Kevin Rose. Daniel joined when the team was four people.
Creative Director and Co-founder
2007 - 2008
Pownce was a pioneer social network co-founded by Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose, and Leah Culver. Daniel led design and product. The team was acquired by SixApart.
Education
Latest Articles
5 articles to convince leaders that design and usability matter
Talks about Design Thinking, Usability and Government