Sam Lolla
Founder at Directed Studio
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Lolla is a founder and product design leader with 12 years of experience helping startups and Series A companies turn complex, information-dense ideas into simple, beautiful products. He specializes in zero-to-one UX and product strategy at the intersection of product management, design, and engineering, and runs Directed Studio—his high-touch consultancy—and Shuffleboard, a real-time feedback tool for remote discussions. Sam has a track record of scaling design teams and aligning design work with executive and board-level strategy from roles at FarmLogs and as a CPO/co‑founder at Precipitation Inc. He teaches and mentors designers, having built studio-style curricula and served as a design leadership mentor for First Round Fast Track. Based in New York with a background in HCI from Penn State and recent engagement with Y Combinator, he thrives on learning-by-doing and bringing clarity to technically complex products. An uncommon strength is his blend of hands-on front-end design craft with strategic coaching for founders and product teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelors of Philosophy Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelors of Philosophy Human-Computer Interaction at Penn State University
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Github Skills (179)
icon-pack10
zero-configuration10
testing10
drag10
logos10
html-editor10
stylus10
wysiwyg10
branding10
home-assistant10
sortable10
schema10
firebase10
svg-files10
validation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MadeInA2/madeina2
Dec 2013 - Aug 2020
Tech companies in Ann Arbor (@MadeInA2)
Contributions:147 commits, 56 PRs, 96 pushes in 6 years 9 months
ann-arborannarbortech-companies
sampl/firefly
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Web app boilerplate for beginners based on Firebase and React 🔥
Contributions:217 commits, 10 PRs, 155 pushes in 2 years 11 months
reactboilerplatefull-stackfirebasefor-beginners
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