Pat Capulong
Product designer / Based in LA / MIT grad
Previously PD Lead at PayPal Honey, CDO at Reach Labs (YC S15)
hello@patcapulong.comPreviously PD Lead at PayPal Honey, CDO at Reach Labs (YC S15)
Managed a team of 4 for Honey’s Shopping Tools vertical, leveling up the workflow and craft of brilliant but more junior designers—while also shipping product as an IC. After 6 months I took over design systems, modernizing our component libraries and building out our federated working model with ambassadors from design and engineering. In Q4 2022 I moved to the PayPal Rewards team to ship incentive products like Cash Back Challenges and Offers.
Hit the ground running leading the design for Honey’s new financial products vertical, shipping Honey Pay Lending and Gift Card Deals from 0 to 1. After launching these I shipped major features for every product in the Honey suite, including Extension, Droplist, Rewards, and Shopping.
Returned to Reach Labs for three weeks to design their brand and identity and delivered a timeless logomark and style guide. Also worked with ICON Foundation, a blockchain company, to design and build their startup accelerator website and application.
Rethinking product specifications and distilling complex financial processes into elegantly simple and useful flows. OneDaijo is working on providing affordable loans to traditionally underserved populations around the world, starting with countries in Southeast Asia like the Philippines. #designforgood
Designed a beautiful and easily manufacturable/assembled enclosure for a care assessment device, making cost-saving decisions along the way. I also designed the company logo and wordmark. Tellus is dedicated to improving care assessment for older adults and those in assisted living. #designforgood
Sole designer with hands on all things design for a Y Combinator hardware startup inventing long-range wireless power. Worked with designers from Facebook, Ammunition, Whipsaw, and more to create beautiful hardware and digital products, branding, and web/mobile app designs.
Worked on the 12" MacBook two years before its release. One of the coolest innovations from this product? Terraced battery cells. My co-intern and I helped increase the capacity of the cells by up to 6%.
Worked with a brilliant team at the Tangible Media Group. Designed actuator components andthermal management systems for inFORM, a novel dynamic shape display that can physicallyrender 3D content.
Designed a shearing interferometer that reduced the ICESat-2 telescope daily collimation timefrom two hours to 30 minutes.
Supported development of F/A-18 Service Life Extension Packages, analyzing subsystemcomponent failure modes/recourse.
Supported 3D design and development of two Navy Support tools.