Kai Gradert

Experience

August Health

Founding Designer 2020 - Present (almost 6 years)

AngelList

Design Lead 2014 - 2020 (about 6 years)

Adobe

Design Lead Lightroom Mobile 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)

Cheers

Founder, Designer 2010 - 2013 (over 3 years)

Pivot to Flipagram → Acquired by ByteDance

DotSpots

Senior Designer 2008 - 2010 (over 2 years)

Pivot to Cheers

Google

Senior Designer 2005 - 2008 (about 3 years)

Design lead on the client team. Responsible for products such as Google Desktop, Toolbar, GDrive, iGoogle among others. An active participant of the weekly company-wide design... more

Founder

Cheers, Cooperating Systems

Employee

Google, DotSpots, AngelList, MetaTools, Adobe, August Health

Advisor

GOOD PARTY

Projects

Angel Funds

Venture funds for angels

An easy way to start a venture fund. Leads raise capital up front so they can make investments quickly and privately, without the overhead of running a fund.

With Rachel H, Brian Tubergen, Jake Zeller, Graham Jenkin, Milos Tatarevic

Ship ⛵

A toolkit for makers to ship awesome products

With Ryan Hoover, Ves Todorov

Cheers App

iOS Mobile App

UX/Design Lead · Cheers is a fun way to celebrate life. Cheer to brighten up your day and the world around you!

With Navid Aslani, Ryan Perry

Lightroom Mobile

Companion phone app for Adobe Lightroom

UX/ DesignLead, Adobe Illustrator, SVG, Xml · Lead the design team and managed the project. Responsible for the visual designs, wireframes and user… · More

With Phil Clevenger

Projects on AngelList

The thing you are looking at

Design · A simple way to share the projects that you have worked on.

With Rachel H, Amit Matani, Dave Zohrob

AngelList Jobs iOS App

Easiest way to find high-quality candidates and startup jobs

UX Designer, XCode, Html5 / Css3, Textmate · Design (Visual & UX) and front-end development on web views.

With Cagri Aksay, Scott J. Kleper

AngelList Talent

Best place to get a job at a startup

With Dave Zohrob, Cagri Aksay, Harish Agarwal, Graham Jenkin, Amit Matani, Naval Ravikant, Kah Hong Tay, Herman Ng, Ibrahim Zohrob

AngelList Radio

Learn investing from experienced angels.

UX Design · Early investors in billion-dollar business like Uber, Snapchat and Twitter explain how they find their next big startup.

With Cyan Banister, Milos Tatarevic, Tyler Willis

About

Achievements

Products directly designed or co-designed: Adobe Lightroom for iPhone/iPad, Cheers, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Google Drive, Google Quick Search, Picasa, Kai's Power Tools, Kai's Photo Soap, Kai's Power Show, Life In The Universe, Tetris for OSX, MetaSquares

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Visual Design User Experience Design Web Development Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Entrepreneurship Graphic Design Interface Design Research and Development Social Networking User Interface Branding Logo Design UI/UX Design Web Design

Locations

Remote

Q&A

What's your favorite non-business book?

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Know when to charge ahead with conviction.

Kai Gradert

Previously @angellist @producthunt @adobe @lightroom @google · Designer, Investor, Husband, Father

Products directly designed or co-designed: Adobe Lightroom for iPhone/iPad, Cheers, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Google Drive, Google Quick Search, Picasa, Kai's Power Tools, Kai's Photo Soap, Kai's Power Show, Life In The Universe, Tetris for OSX, MetaSquares