Josh Puckett

Josh Puckett is a product designer who has spent nearly two decades designing and building products. He led teams at Groupon, Dropbox and Wealthfront.⁠[1][2]

Puckett co-founded Upperstudy, an apprenticeship-based studio that helped more than a hundred designers start careers in technology. Its apprentices went on to join startups including Vanta, Render, Clubhouse and Checkmate.⁠[2][3]

By March 2026 Puckett had released Interface Craft, a design library of more than 40 articles, interactive walkthroughs, videos, skill files and custom tools for designers, developers and product managers, sold as a one-time membership.⁠[1][4]

On March 12, 2026, he appeared on episode 155 of the design podcast Dive Club, discussing his principles for interface design, morphing strategies for micro-interactions, the shifting value proposition of design and using storyboards to collaborate with AI.⁠[4]

Puckett co-founded the design practice Iteration with Adam Michela; it partners with early-stage founders. The two founders’ experience includes designing AirbnbAirbnbAirbnb is a travel platform for booking stays, experiences, and services, co-founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk and headquartered in San Francisco, United States; its Class A common stock trades on Nasdaq under the symbol ABNB. The business began with hosting guests in the founders’ home in 2007, then joined YC’s Winter 2009 batch, and gradually expanded into local experiences, services, and boutique hotels.Open the full entry, Dropbox, Wealthfront, Facebook and hundreds of early-stage products.⁠[5][2]

Christina Cacioppo of Vanta wrote on Iteration’s website: “Josh and Adam not only helped design the very first version of Vanta, they later redesigned our entire design system and helped us ship our first new product in years.”⁠[5]

Puckett is also a co-founder of Graphical, a tool for creating visual languages: users define theme elements such as colors, type, spacing, icons and motion, then build interfaces with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor or install the theme’s components via shadcn.⁠[2][6]

Puckett has worked as a designer, advisor or investor with companies including Browserbase, Checkmate, Clubhouse, Equals, Framer, ModalModalModal is a cloud infrastructure company founded by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna. Operated by New York-based Modal Labs, Inc., its platform lets developers configure cloud CPUs, GPUs and containers in code for model inference, training, batch processing and isolated execution of AI agent workloads.Open the full entry, Render, Sydecar, Tia, Truework, Vanta and Vise.⁠[2]

His open-source design tools include DialKit, a floating control panel for real-time parameter tweaking, and Pica, a font manager for macOS.⁠[2][1]

Iteration: Official website: https://iteration.design/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

Graphical: Official website: https://withgraphical.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[6]

Personal website: https://joshpuckett.me/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/joshpuckett (opens in a new window).⁠[2][6]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-puckett-4722736 (opens in a new window).⁠[5]