Susan Lin

Susan creates systems, builds the capacity of teams, and drives the alignment needed to deliver exceptional product experiences for millions of users.

By day, she works as a Design Manager at BuzzFeed. By night, she creates under the moniker Mintlodica. She loves mechanical keyboards and is on TheKey.Company staff after her keyset, DSA Magic Girl, became a best seller.

In her past, she designed for NASA, spearheaded Trulia's first design system, defined HealthCare.gov's application, and directed designers at Cloudflare.

Speaking

Leading through Conflict

A healthy team culture must grow self-sustainably. How can we do this without adding more work and through tough feelings? Introducing: Integrative Thinking. Integrative Thinking holds opposing ideas by observing their differences. Then, we generate a new solution. With this, we enhance our team productivity instead of blocking it.

• Women Techmakers
  Montréal, Canada in March 2019.
• Women Who Code CONNECT 2019
  San Francisco, CA in April 2019.
• REFACTR.TECH
  Atlanta, GA in June 2019.

Book Me

If you'd like to have me speak, please email hi@bysusanlin.com with the following:

• The event, location, and dates.
• Fellow speakers, invited and accepted.
• Registration prices, honorarium and speaker package.
• Your Code of Conduct.

Past Events

You can see a full history here.

Interviews & Articles

Highlights

The curated overview of my accomplishments so far.

• 37: Leveling Up to Lead
  Desk Lunch, 2018.
• How to Accelerate Your Design Career
  Case Study Club, 2018.
• Reflected Worlds, Watercolor
  NASA Space Flight Center: Art + Science Exhibit, 2017.
• 86: Adult Recess
  Design Details Podcast, 2015.

Additional Reading

Everything else, including doge and MUJI.

• Interview about my morning routine
  My Morning Routine, 2018.
• 8: Interview with Mango Roll
  Developurrs, 2018.
• Interview about my set-up
  Uses This, 2015. Updated with ErgoDox EZ, 2018.
• Hotel Review: The first ever MUJI Hotel
  The InnBox, 2018.

Contact

Susan and her Shiba Inu, Grass Jelly, live in NYC and enjoy friendship with other nice humans and dogs. That said, there are ground rules to respect:

No, thank you.

• I am not interested in freelance work in tech, design, or diversity consultation.
• I do not work off the clock. No product review or "brain picking" inquiries, please.

Yes, please!

• I am open to art collaborations! Art shows, limited edition physical products, and atypical commissions are especially interesting.
• I will try to make time for PoC, especially WoC, creatives who need an ear.
• I enjoy outings where I can bring the pup!

Book a pup-date with us.