web02.fireside.fm Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:56:27 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Happy Paths - Episodes Tagged with “Twitter” https://happy-paths.fireside.fm/tags/twitter Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400 Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. In each episode, host James Evans dives deep on one iconic product or feature — like Gmail, the hashtag, or Twitter Spaces — with the people who built them. We will pull back the curtain on the little details of how they were made, giving context for our audience on who uses these products, as well as providing practical learnings for other product practitioners. en-us episodic Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. CommandBar Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era. In each episode, host James Evans dives deep on one iconic product or feature — like Gmail, the hashtag, or Twitter Spaces — with the people who built them. We will pull back the curtain on the little details of how they were made, giving context for our audience on who uses these products, as well as providing practical learnings for other product practitioners. no Happy Paths, UX, user experience, product manager, growth product manager, UX designer, UX engineer CommandBar paul@commandbar.com Twitter Spaces with Maya Gold Patterson https://happy-paths.fireside.fm/twitter-spaces-maya-gold-patterson c4b50518-44e3-40fb-8ac9-becb4e68c22a Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400 CommandBar full 1 CommandBar Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead Product Designer for Twitter Spaces through its launch and early growth. In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps. 27:47 no Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead Product Designer for Twitter Spaces through its launch and early growth. In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps. Bio Maya Gold Patterson is the VP of design at Riverside.fm, an online recording platform for content creation. Before taking on her current role, she spent three years working at Twitter as a product designer, where she most notably helped build Twitter Spaces. Maya earned a degree in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis before discovering UX design as her true passion. Before working at Twitter and Riverside, she worked on product design at Meta’s Facebook for two years. Patterson said Dantley Davis, a notable product and design executive who led design teams at Netflix, Meta, Twitter, and now Nike, discovered her work after she began writing about her design experiences. He recruited her from Chicago to go work in Silicon Valley, and her design career skyrocketed from there. Links Maya Gold Patterson - Twitter (https://twitter.com/mayagpatterson) - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayp/) - Spaces Beta Public Figma File (https://www.figma.com/file/RS6tHqgyYiWfT8YF4SU8Za/Spaces) James Evans - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-evans-7086b3126/) CommandBar - Follow CommandBar (https://www.commandbar.com/) on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/commandbar/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/CommandBar). Maya Gold Patterson, Twitter Spaces, Twitter, Spaces, audio, social audio Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead Product Designer for Twitter Spaces through its launch and early growth.

In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps.

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Maya Gold Patterson is the VP of design at Riverside.fm, an online recording platform for content creation. Before taking on her current role, she spent three years working at Twitter as a product designer, where she most notably helped build Twitter Spaces.

Maya earned a degree in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis before discovering UX design as her true passion. Before working at Twitter and Riverside, she worked on product design at Meta’s Facebook for two years. Patterson said Dantley Davis, a notable product and design executive who led design teams at Netflix, Meta, Twitter, and now Nike, discovered her work after she began writing about her design experiences. He recruited her from Chicago to go work in Silicon Valley, and her design career skyrocketed from there.

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In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps.

Bio

Maya Gold Patterson is the VP of design at Riverside.fm, an online recording platform for content creation. Before taking on her current role, she spent three years working at Twitter as a product designer, where she most notably helped build Twitter Spaces.

Maya earned a degree in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis before discovering UX design as her true passion. Before working at Twitter and Riverside, she worked on product design at Meta’s Facebook for two years. Patterson said Dantley Davis, a notable product and design executive who led design teams at Netflix, Meta, Twitter, and now Nike, discovered her work after she began writing about her design experiences. He recruited her from Chicago to go work in Silicon Valley, and her design career skyrocketed from there.

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]]> The Hashtag with Chris Messina https://happy-paths.fireside.fm/the-hashtag-chris-messina d716c04e-39f0-4aad-8d95-1310cde99b02 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400 CommandBar full 1 CommandBar What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact. James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet. 24:33 no What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact. James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet. Bio Chris Messina has spent a decade working on social technologies, designing products and experiences, working with startups, and changing the world by giving away many of his creations, including the hashtag. His skillset is broad, anchored in product and user experience design. He has created movements online and off, and has acted as an effective agent of change in large and small organizations. In 2004, he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005, he co-organized the first BarCamp and then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006, he opened the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco, giving rise to a global movement. Then in 2007, he brought the idea for the hashtag to Twitter, changing social media forever and galvanizing social revolutions across the globe. During his time at Google as a Developer Advocate, he lead the creation of Google Developers as a brand and central hub for all of Google’s developer tools, services, and documentation. Later, as a UX designer on the Google+ team, he redesigned the Google Profile, unifying 46 discrete representations of a person across the company's various products. He also lead the efforts to design Google+’s publisher platform offerings, including the +1 button and other embeddable publisher widgets. He has spoken at conferences like SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, Google I/O, and Microsoft's Future Decoded, and has frequently been quoted in media outlets like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wired. Links Chris Messina - Website (https://chrismessina.me/) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/chrismessina) - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/factoryjoe/) - Mastodon (https://mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina) James Evans - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-evans-7086b3126/) CommandBar - Follow CommandBar (https://www.commandbar.com/) on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/commandbar/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/CommandBar). Chris Messina, hashtag, Twitter What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact.

James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet.

Bio

Chris Messina has spent a decade working on social technologies, designing products and experiences, working with startups, and changing the world by giving away many of his creations, including the hashtag.

His skillset is broad, anchored in product and user experience design. He has created movements online and off, and has acted as an effective agent of change in large and small organizations.

In 2004, he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005, he co-organized the first BarCamp and then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006, he opened the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco, giving rise to a global movement. Then in 2007, he brought the idea for the hashtag to Twitter, changing social media forever and galvanizing social revolutions across the globe.

During his time at Google as a Developer Advocate, he lead the creation of Google Developers as a brand and central hub for all of Google’s developer tools, services, and documentation. Later, as a UX designer on the Google+ team, he redesigned the Google Profile, unifying 46 discrete representations of a person across the company's various products. He also lead the efforts to design Google+’s publisher platform offerings, including the +1 button and other embeddable publisher widgets.

He has spoken at conferences like SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, Google I/O, and Microsoft's Future Decoded, and has frequently been quoted in media outlets like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wired.

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]]> What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact.

James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet.

Bio

Chris Messina has spent a decade working on social technologies, designing products and experiences, working with startups, and changing the world by giving away many of his creations, including the hashtag.

His skillset is broad, anchored in product and user experience design. He has created movements online and off, and has acted as an effective agent of change in large and small organizations.

In 2004, he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005, he co-organized the first BarCamp and then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006, he opened the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco, giving rise to a global movement. Then in 2007, he brought the idea for the hashtag to Twitter, changing social media forever and galvanizing social revolutions across the globe.

During his time at Google as a Developer Advocate, he lead the creation of Google Developers as a brand and central hub for all of Google’s developer tools, services, and documentation. Later, as a UX designer on the Google+ team, he redesigned the Google Profile, unifying 46 discrete representations of a person across the company's various products. He also lead the efforts to design Google+’s publisher platform offerings, including the +1 button and other embeddable publisher widgets.

He has spoken at conferences like SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, Google I/O, and Microsoft's Future Decoded, and has frequently been quoted in media outlets like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wired.

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