Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead Product Designer for Twitter Spaces through its launch and early growth.
In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps.
Maya Gold Patterson is the VP of design at Riverside.fm, an online recording platform for content creation. Before taking on her current role, she spent three years working at Twitter as a product designer, where she most notably helped build Twitter Spaces.
Maya earned a degree in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis before discovering UX design as her true passion. Before working at Twitter and Riverside, she worked on product design at Meta’s Facebook for two years. Patterson said Dantley Davis, a notable product and design executive who led design teams at Netflix, Meta, Twitter, and now Nike, discovered her work after she began writing about her design experiences. He recruited her from Chicago to go work in Silicon Valley, and her design career skyrocketed from there.
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