Steven Schafer
Product & Interaction Design
About
I'm a Staff Product Designer at WhatsApp currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Prior to WhatsApp, I was a design lead at Spotify helping to introduce Spotify's third content type ā€” audiobooks. Before Spotify I spent 8 years working in Silicon Valley and San Francisco in product & interaction design including at Instagram and Facebook where I helped to scale these products into household names to over a billion people worldwide.
When I'm not at work, I like to nerd out on espresso machines and spend time with my wife and two daughters. I also try and build iOS apps however Iā€™m a lot better at design. Playing around with technologies has enabled me to empathize a lot with engineers during the product development process and has enabled me to produce very high fidelity prototypes.