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Karri Saarinen

What Karri Saarinen thinks about design

@karri-saarinen · 14 positions · On ppll ↗

Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

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4 dated positions, 2010 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Karri Saarinen has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingIntuition is not a magical force but something learned while working and listening to customers.

    Their wordsintuition is not some like magical force that like and Star Wars or something that it's happens to you. It it is something that you have learned while working on something or listening to customers or something.

    ↗Context is now the product: Product leadership when software can build itself | Karri Saarinen (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 8th of 10 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe better the context and understanding of the people making decisions, the better the products probably are.

    Their wordsthe better context those people have and like better understanding they have about the what they're supposed to do I think the products are better

    ↗Context is now the product: Product leadership when software can build itself | Karri Saarinen (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 9th of 10 in this recording

  4. 14 years earlier

  5. Our readingFounders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.

    startupstaste

    Their wordsLike sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.

    ↗Jiro’s Dreamkarrisaarinen.com

  6. 3 years earlier

  7. Our readingA product vision cannot be transferred through specs and bullet points; the product visionary has to engage in doing.

    Their wordsAs a product visionary, trying to describe the product on a piece of paper with paragraphs and bullet points is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a whiteboard marker.

    ↗Your Product Needs a Soulkarrisaarinen.com