Tin Kadoic is a
Design Director in San Francisco.
2025 – Present
Head of Design, Core Consumer at DoorDash
Leading design for the core consumer experience, with a focus on upleveling the team, elevating craft, and integrating AI across the product.
2020 – 2025
Design Leadership at Instagram
Led teams across Video and Camera, scaling Reels from launch to 50% of watch time. Also supported Instagram’s Design Systems team through its first major redesign in years.
2017 – 2020
Design Leadership at Airbnb
As a Design Manager at Managed teams across Guest, MoWeb, and Host Platform. Spearheaded the redesign of Airbnb’s core guest flow (Search to Book), featured in the 2021 release.
2017
Product Creative Director at Apple via SYPartners
Consulted on digital product and design strategy for Apple via SYPartners.
2014 – 2017
Executive Creative Director at Five
Led mobile strategy, product design, and creative vision for clients from startups to Fortune 500s, including Rosetta Stone, Marriott, USA Today and parent’s favorite – Nanit.
2009 – 2014
Co-founder & Design Director at Brlog
Ran an award-winning digital studio in Zagreb and lectured at the School of Design, University of Zagreb.
Community
- 2014 – 2020 IxDA – Core team member at IxDA Europe
- 2014 – 2017 Meetup organizer at Design First, New York
- 2014 Croatian Biennale of Design Jury
Coverage
- Make Better Product Decisions – Instagram: Culture, process & unshipping with Tin Kadoic
- Creative Voyage Interview
- Etch Epics Interview
- [Croatian] Interview, CX.hr
- [Croatian] Interview, Netokracija
- [Croatian] People of 2017, Jutarnji.hr
- Making the case for design sprints , Sprint Stories
- Where Prototypes Fail, Five
- The Simple Guide to Product Testing, InVision
- Design is the Experience, uxdesign.cc
- Taking Responsive a Step Further, uxdesign.cc
Talks
- 2019 Quebec City – WAQ
- 2017 San Francisco — Smashing Conference
- 2015 New York — QCon
- 2015 Las Vegas — Future Insights
- 2015 Bergen — Booster
- 2014 Edinburgh — UX Scotland