Harrison Bowden is a designer who builds in the earliest stages

I left the Midwest to help a scrappy team convince people to get in cars with strangers. At Lyft, I was part of the founding team. Named the company, designed the logo, helped build the first product experiences.

I helped grow Lyft's design team to over a hundred people, went on a founder journey, and led product design teams. I've started companies, joined them early, and built alongside founders through the messy middle. The thread through all of it: small teams, high agency, problems worth solving with care.

The work I'm drawn to lives at the beginning, when a company is still finding its voice, when the brand and the product are the same conversation. I love helping teams articulate what they are before the world has made up its mind. Getting that right early is the highest-leverage design work there is.

When I'm not designing things for the internet, I'm outside. Fly fishing, building worlds with my kids, living slow in a small town in Sonoma County, California.