Engineering teams in design-driven companies

Everything we produce is useful, beautiful, and fun. But to us, that’s just table stakes.

Universe opens up the possibilities of the internet to everyone. This is possible not because of some hard-tech breakthrough but because of great design.

At our core, we are a design-driven company. To create new interfaces that unlock creativity, we have to build a new design language that everyone can understand, regardless of skill level. Usability is key for distilling large, complex problems into simple, toy-like solutions. Daniel, our product designer, works intensely on optimizing both form and function.

We take a first principles approach, meaning we start the process of design with a question to be answered, not an expected outcome in mind. And to some extent, that question is always in alignment with our mission – “how can we empower everyone to build the internet?”