# Daniel Shiplacoff

> Designer, Founder, Advisor

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielshiplacoff

Product and system designer. I invented the gestural interaction model now on every phone. System design for Palm webOS, Android, and Material Design at Google. Now working on identity and agency in personal AI systems that respect privacy and embrace the complexity of the humans they serve.

## Work Experience
### Principal @ danship
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Co-Founder @ Hello Wonder
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
· October 2025 acquisition by Noggin — onwards!
· Leadership & product design for Hello Wonder: fixing the internet for kids.

### Design Director @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2021
• Built and led design and UX engineering teams for Android 2010-2015: platform and system design, UX, interaction, visual, gestural, and motion
• Established Google's first UX rapid-prototyping team and UX engineering R&D
• Led the implementation of Material Design for its debut launch across platforms: phones, tablets, wearables, auto and TV
• Led design teams from concept through launch of systems for wearables, TVs, cars, and the company's first deeply personal AI search product, Google Now
• Founding member and design leader for the team building Fuchsia, a brand new computing platform to enable the next paradigm of context-driven computing, agentic AI  
• Chief of Staff for Google's design system org, Material Design

### Design Manager @ Palm, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
• Built and led the human interface R&D and front-end UI design and UX engineering teams
• Designed and prototyped core system UI for Palm webOS including its card system, notifications, universal search, gestures and transitions
• Engineered algorithms for responsive, real-time, fluid UI animation

### Lead Designer @ Helio
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
• Designed forward-looking UI for next-generation mobile devices
• Created system for rapid development of fully-interactive UI prototypes
• Developed robust algorithms for dynamic UI movement and animation
• Managed development of company-wide, service-wide UI style guide

### Principal @ URGE (design studio)
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006
• Responsible for all aspects of business operation and management
• Managed multiple accounts; Lead both design and development teams

### Creative Director @ ClickZ Network
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001
• Opened and staffed Los Angeles office; built and led creative team from inception to acquisition
. Envisioned and implemented strategy for automating editorial process, website publishing, newsletter deployment and subscriber maintenance
• Managed quality assurance, ad trafficking, user feedback response


## Education
### BA in Design, Media Art
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danship
- Portfolio: http://daniel.shiplacoff.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13