Jeff Smith
Sr. Director Product Design
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Speaking
What Makes a Great Design Manager
Tactical guidance on how to manage your first team, the skills, habits, and processes on how to support your team on both the creative and operational frontiers.
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Speaking
NewsHour: Inside Facebook’s race to separate news from junk
At Facebook, there are two competing goals: keep the platform free and open to a broad spectrum of ideas and opinions, while reducing the spread of misinformation.
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Writing
5 Ways Facebook Scales Their Design System
Insight, advice, and actionable tips based on the design process at Facebook.
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Writing
Designing New Ways to Give Context to News Stories
The research and design thinking behind adding new context to articles in News Feed.
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Speaking
Design Details 113: Artist Formerly Known As (feat. Jeff Smith)
Design Details Podcast interview about my background that covers what makes a great manager, how to deal with imposter syndrome, filling in skill gaps, answering the eternal 1x vs 2x debate, and addressing the importance of visual design.
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Design
Shining a Light on Ads With Political Content
As we announced last month, we’re making big changes to the way ads with political content work on Facebook to help prevent abuse, especially during elections.
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Design
Adding Additional Context on News Stories in News Feed
As the designer on News Feed working on Misinformation, part of my job is to help give people the tools to make informed decisions about which stories to read, trust, and share.
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Speaking
Designing Products at Scale
How Framer can be an essential tool when designing for billions of people.
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Writing
Designing Against Misinformation
Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false.
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Design
Introducing Facebook Sound Kit
Excited to announce the launch Facebook Design's Sound Kit, a collection of interaction sounds made by our Sound Design team to enhance your prototypes.
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Design
Perspectives for Elections
What started as a hackathon project is now a live product. Candidate perspectives is available for people in France for the upcoming French election.
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Writing
Giving Back to the Design Community
Why a small team of Facebook designers build resources for designers
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Design
Fake News on Facebook
We're working on a number of initiatives to make News Feed better one of which involves helping people better identify what is fake news.
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Design
Facebook iOS 10 UI Kit for Sketch Figma and PSD
I'm excited to share Facebook's latest Design Resources. We're releasing an iOS 10 GUI, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2, Google Pixel, and an updated website.
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Design
Facebook Devices Are Now in Origami and Framer
Facebook's Devices are now available in both Origami and Framer. These devices have been a huge effort by a lot of folks and I'm excited to share that they've been integrated into our favorite prototyping tools.
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Design
Facebook iOS 9 GUI for Sketch & PSD
An incredible group of designers from across Facebook has been working on the iOS 9 GUI for the past couple weeks and we couldn't be more excited to have made it public.
Currently building something new. Previously, I lead Design & Research at Coinbase, supported Airbnb's Design Language System, lead Facebook's design efforts against misinformation and polarization on News Feed and Stories, and helped create Facebook.design. I've had the privilege of having my work featured in publications like The New York Times. Want to get in touch? Shoot me an email.