Bungie Studios · 2006–2011
Producer, Gamer Experience
Shaped the player journey across Halo and Destiny.
Led Gamer Experience on Halo ODST, Reach and Destiny, and built Bungie’s in-house playtest lab.
Hi, I’m Chris Daltas
I help companies build products and design functions that accelerate business growth.
Hands-on design leader with 20 years of experience building products, 8 years developing talent and managing teams.
- Customer First
- Start With Why
- Product Design
- UI/UX Design
- Design Systems
- Systems Architecture
- Simplify Relentlessly
- Platform Design
- Consumer Apps
- Enterprise Apps
- B2B
- B2C
- Data-Informed
- SaaS
- Marketplaces
- Mobile Apps
- Accessible by Default
- Web Design
- 0→1 Products
- Interaction Design
- Sweat the Details
- Prototyping
- UX Research
- 1-1 Interviews
- Prototype Early
- AI Products
- Ship to Learn
- Design Leadership
- Own the Outcome
- Team Lead
- Team Building
- People Management
- Earn Trust
- Hiring & Interviewing
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Career Development
- Define Success
- Measure What Matters
- Design Strategy
- Product Strategy
- Live The Brand
- Bias for Action
- Design Ops
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
- Roadmapping
- Design Critique
- Org Design
Showcase
Craft you can feel
Idea to canvas, canvas to concept, concept to production. Products where I have led design from zero-to-one.
DishSnap
The app for foodies.
FieldScout
Never draft unprepared.
XBase
Seven tools. One operating system.
OfferUp
Buy. Sell. Simple.
XMove & XShip
Fulfillment on easy mode.
OfferUp v2
A marketplace, moving upmarket.
About
Solved by design
Design is imagining the future you want to live in, and then taking the steps to make it a reality.
Choreography over control
As a leader
I've spent about twenty years in product and design, roughly half of it leading teams while staying hands-on. I've been a founding designer twice and worked across a range of company stages, and I'm happiest where the problem is still fuzzy.
I stay close to the craft. These past few years I've gone all in on AI, partly for the joy of building and partly to be a leader who understands what the technology can and can't do.
A career in the making
Agentically modified.
UgliApps · 2009–2014
Co-founder, Head of Design
An Apple Design Award and three exits.
Co-founded an app studio. iHeart Fruits and Veggies won an Apple Design Award and passed 2 million downloads.
Urbanspoon · 2014
Lead Product Designer
Redesigned a classic for food discovery and take-out.
After Match Group acquired DishSnap, I led the rebrand and redesign of Urbanspoon’s iOS and Android apps.
OfferUp · 2014–2018
Founding Product Designer
Took OfferUp from five people to 15 million daily users.
Founding designer across brand, apps and workflows, and builder of the early design and research team. Helped raise a $275M Series C at a $1.3B valuation.
Flexe · 2018–2024
Principal Product Designer, Design Team Manager
From 4 warehouses on spreadsheets to 2,000+ worldwide.
Led product design for Flexe’s mobile warehouse system, launch tools and marketplace, and grew a team of 5 designers and 2 UI engineers.
Family sabbatical · 2024–2026
Raising two new kiddos from zero to one.
Solved by Design · 2026–Now
Founder
Turning complex ideas into memorable brands and products.
My studio helps startups find a clear market position, then ships the identity, design system and key workflows to back it up.
Let's build incredible0→1 products together.
0→1 products =UrUser Research+UxUser Experience Design+PtPrototyping+TsTesting