The New York Times · Audio · Product design

Listen Tab

The Listen tab brings The Times's audio journalism directly to app users, showing a curated selection of what you should listen to each day.

Led design, collaborating with leadership, editorial, and product to develop a strategy and ship an experience that could showcase our audio journalism.

Role

Principal Product Designer

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Jak Horner

About

I'm a designer with 15 years of experience building products across games, audio, social, and journalism. I'm currently a Staff Product Designer at The Mind Company, building Spark — a game you can learn something from. Before that, I led the biggest redesign of The New York Times app since 2008, was a design lead for Twitter Spaces, and helped shape the brand and design at Dots, the indie studio behind Two Dots, the #1 mobile game in over 100 countries. My work has been recognized with a Fast Company Innovation by Design award, three Webby Awards for Two Dots — Games, 2016, Best Visual Design Aesthetic, 2017, and Best Game Design, 2018 — and Apple Editors' Choice for both Two Dots and Spark.

Experience

  • The Mind CompanyStaff Product Designer — building Spark
  • The New York TimesPrincipal Product Designer — Cross Product Discovery, Listen Tab
  • TwitterSr. Product Designer → Staff Product Designer — Voice Tweets, Spaces
  • DotsVisual Designer → Project Lead — Two Dots, Wilds, Birthday Scavenger Hunt