Quinn Keast

Head of DesignDitto

Quinn is a user experience and product designer who writes for Ditto about design, content systems, and systems thinking.

15+ years of experience. Background in graphic design. Previously: Staff Product Designer at Airplane and Sourcegraph, UX Design Lead at Marley Spoon, Co-Founder & Designer at Caribou.

About Quinn

Quinn has more than 15 years of expertise across the entire product design process: from research and strategy to execution and shipping. His background is in graphic design, complemented by a lifetime of tinkering with digital tools, languages, and technologies that give a high-craft and deep technical basis for his practice.

Quinn writes about design and tech with a philosophical lens around the process and thinking involved in creating effective products through human-centred design.

Articles by Quinn

How to build a style guide that works for for humans AND agents
How to build a style guide that works for for humans AND agents
Your style guide has always been infrastructure: part of the system that scales consistency and voice. Now it has a second audience.
Quinn Keast
March 27, 2026
Product
Editorial
The ephemeral design system: impermanence as intentional strategy
The ephemeral design system: impermanence as intentional strategy
Design systems are hard. Building Ditto 2.0 made design systems even harder.
Quinn Keast
November 14, 2025
Editorial
Your content style guide doesn’t work… because it’s not where you work
Your content style guide doesn’t work… because it’s not where you work
We don’t need better style guides for product copy. We need better integration.
Quinn Keast
September 5, 2025
Editorial