Randy Hunt has been designing products, brands, and businesses for over 20 years. As Head of Design at Notion, he supports a global team building beautiful tools for your life’s work. As SVA MFA Design Chair, he directs a pioneering graduate program focused on entrepreneurial designers. A designer at heart, he cofounded Supermarket and helped build marketplaces like Etsy, Artsy, and Grab. Randy wrote the book, Product Design for the Web (New Riders, 2013).
Upcoming Talks
13 May 2026
When growth accelerates, hierarchies slow you down. Randy Hunt shares how Notion’s design organization engineered itself around skills and behaviors rather than titles and functions, a shift he calls a return to the fundamentals of “making and building.” As adoption soared from personal users to global enterprises, this model helped the team stay fluid, creative, and connected to the craft of design. The talk reveals how a skill-based culture fosters adaptability, ownership, and speed when predictability disappears.
Takeaways:
- How to structure design teams around skills, not roles
- Preserving creative DNA through growth, unpredictability, and complexity.
- Why rediscovering fundamentals — curiosity, craft, and shared behaviors, enables sustainable scaling.
Past Talks
4 March 2021
"Walk before you run," they say. Sometimes you simply trip and stumble.
In this intimate session Randy will share personal failures, oversights and lessons learned from building and leading design practices large and small.
