September 15, 2025

Meet the Medium Design Team

Cassie McDaniel

Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More

Join us at Medium Day on September 19th for a behind the scenes look at recent feature updates.

As any practicing designer knows, shipping feature updates isn’t always straightforward. Our team is excited to share this peek into the processes and philosophies behind our design decisions, followed by a Q&A discussion with the community. We look forward to how your questions might shape our conversation!

Members of the design team who will be present include:

Sophie Aguado, Senior Product Designer
Jeremy Borthwick, Principal Product Designer
Nouf Aljowaysir, Senior Product Designer
Jason Combs, Senior Brand Designer
Cassie McDaniel, VP Design

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Five headshots overlaid in bright colors, Cassie McDaniel, VP Design, Sophie Aguado, Senior Product Designer, Jeremy Borthwick, Principal Product Designer, Nouf Aljowaysir, Senior Product Designer, and Jason Combs, Senior Brand Designer
A few members of our design team who will be present at Medium Day

Sophie will share the thinking behind our follow to subscribe initiative, Jeremy will give an exclusive peek at mobile digest prototypes, and Nouf and Jason, who work on Publications and Brand respectively, will be on hand to answer questions in a Q&A session following the case studies, while Cassie will provide a bigger picture look at our design philosophies. We’re excited to open up our process to the design community and hear what questions you may have about the way we work.

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Black background with white text and colorful arrows pointing at this text: Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Medium’s recent feature updates with Medium’s design team. Sophie Aguado, Senior Product Designer, will showcase the team’s design thinking on our “follow to subscribe” improvements, and Jeremy Borthwick, Principal Product Designer, will share an exclusive look at mobile digest prototypes. Learn more about how we work from Cassie McDaniel, VP of Design, followed by Q&A.
Our full session description, Behind the Scenes with Medium’s Design Team, on September 19, 2025

More great talks on the art & design track

We are a small part of a very excellent Art & Design Track for Medium Day. Check out these other sessions (and other tracks as well) and register for free on MediumDay.com, and we’ll see you next Friday.

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A list of 12 Medium Day Art & Design track sessions, also available on Mediumday.com
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