Harrison
Wheeler
Product design leader defining experiences and the teams behind them.
Designer, builder, and community maker. Across a decade leading design at LinkedIn and Zendesk, I've turned quality into a business strategy, shipping experiences used by more than a billion people, growing designers into leaders, and following curiosity into products, writing, and a podcast of my own.
Read moreSelect work
A few case studies in design leadership and the products I've built. The problems, the bets, and what shipped.
Building a Surface for Growth
Pods Over Silos: Restructuring to Build Faster
B2B Events: Reviving a Venture Bet Through Storytelling
Base CRM → Zendesk
Base CRM: Building the Design Organization
0 → 1 / iOS app
Dual Creator Cam: One Tap, Two Finished Videos
0 → 1 / Built product
How Holiday Got Built: A Process Case Study
Now building
LeadCraft
A platform for design leaders navigating an era where everything, including how we work with AI, is changing. Frameworks, rituals, and real stories for growing your team and yourself.
Community
I speak at conferences around the world about facilitation, design leadership, building teams through change, and AI readiness. My talks draw from real stories, the messy, imperfect, human side of leading design organizations.
Talks
Figma Config 2022 — "The Design MC: Facilitating Safe and Inclusive Environments for Feedback"
Design Matters Tokyo 2025 — "How AI is Reshaping Design Leadership and Culture"
Events
SmashingConf New York 2022
SmashingConf Freiburg 2023
ConveyUX 2025
Writing
Let's work together
I'm available for full-time roles, speaking engagements, leadership coaching, and advisory work with product and design teams.