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Ryan Sims

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Midwest Coast. @Duolingo Chief Design Officer. Formerly @Stripe, @Rdio, and @Adobe.

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined May 2007
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Ryan Sims
4 years
đź‘‹ Hello, internet. Send me all of your mission-driven product designers to our Pittsburgh, NYC, Seattle, or Berlin offices, please. Together, let's build the best education in the world and make it universally available. https://t.co/JjxR2LLUyG
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We are looking for mission-driven Senior Product Designers to join our Pittsburgh, NYC, Seattle, and Berlin offices. đź’š https://lnkd.in/duw37PH7 #productdesign #design #hiringnow #designerjobs...
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Ryan Sims
3 years
Today, we are thrilled to welcome @gunneranimation to the Duolingo family! We've worked closely with this group of talented and creative artists for the past couple of years, and I am beyond excited to call them my colleagues now. https://t.co/9hZ54EOAIo
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Ryan Sims
4 years
Today is a big day for @duolingo—we goin’ public, y’all!!! Within a week, I’ve had my first child and my first IPO… what a wild year 2021 has been! So proud of @LuisvonAhn, @severinhacker, the Design team, and company for all the hard work over the years. $DUOL #duolipo
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Duolingo
4 years
Language belongs to everyone. Now Duolingo does, too. đź’š Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Today's #DUOLIPO with @Nasdaq means we can bring education to more people than ever before. $DUOL
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Ryan Sims
5 years
Write the words that will help shape the future of education. Bonus: you get to work with Mary, queen of the word nerds.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
Let's talk. Not the apply-for-a-job type? DM me. Especially if you're a design manager, product designer, systems designer, producer, character animator, motion designer, illustrator, or brand designer...I'd be very interested in chatting.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
We are hiring for several @Duolingo Design roles! Help us design the most downloaded education app in the world as we try to make education freely available to everyone. → Product Designers → Design Managers → many more... https://t.co/nWNc9Vr5GS
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Ryan Sims
6 years
We are hiring designers (product and marketing) and artists (illustrators and animators) in Pittsburgh, NYC, Seattle, and Beijing. Let's talk? https://t.co/L8ZGEKfQXT
@LuisvonAhn
Luis von Ahn
6 years
Super proud to announce our latest round of funding valuing @duolingo at US$1.5 billion. This shows the hard work the team has done to create the most popular and effective way to learn languages online. https://t.co/US08phJdHs
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Ryan Sims
6 years
My iPhone just autocorrected “mustache” to “moist ache”. Related: I now have a birthday moist ache.
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@LuisvonAhn
Luis von Ahn
6 years
Loved seeing @duolingo on Saturday Night Live last night! Proud to have helped build this awesome brand.
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Saturday Night Live - SNL
6 years
It’s never too late to learn, with new Duolingo for Talking to Children. #SNL
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Ryan Sims
6 years
A good way to measure time is before and after the exact moment when @koop teaches you how color works. https://t.co/A3xHhIOG4B
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stripe.com
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
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Luis von Ahn
6 years
One of the contrarian views we hold at @duolingo is that allowing people to learn entirely for free is not only good for the world but good for our business. Our app is the top grossing app among all education apps worldwide, even though the others charge for learning.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
New @duolingo logo! Feels lovely to have a wordmark that better matches the brand (and our mascot, Duo). https://t.co/WlFHKamuY1
underconsideration.com
New Wordmark and Identity for Duolingo by Johnson Banks
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Ryan Sims
6 years
Me when Lizzo busts out that flute in her Tiny Desk concert.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
Let's be real. If your playlist has good artwork *and* a portmanteau title, I'm definitely pressing play a hundo p.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
Came for the artwork, stayed for the playlist.
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Ryan Sims
6 years
Excited for my first batch of Haus and that gorgeous bottle! And super proud of you, @helena and @woodyhambrecht. @drinkhaus https://t.co/PMKtgXw6bg
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Ryan Sims
7 years
The only thing I love more than watching Queer Eye is watching @achpea watch Queer Eye.
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Ryan Sims
7 years
Oh, my. Look at that cutey.
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Ryan Sims
7 years
Proud++
@LuisvonAhn
Luis von Ahn
7 years
Very proud of Duolingo's new design, which we're rolling out in the different platforms over the next few weeks.
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