Daniel Burka

Daniel is currently the Director of Design at the early-stage startup Tiny Speck in San Francisco. For the past four years he was the creative director at the social news website Digg where he helped the site grow from a niche technology news site into one of the leading media services on the web with a massive and passionate community. Working with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Daniel and his design team shaped the user experience and product direction of Digg.

Daniel is also a semi-active partner at the Canadian design firm silverorange. While working at silverorange, Daniel designed the Mozilla.org website and contributed to the development of the Firefox and Thunderbird brands. In 2007, along with Leah Culver and Kevin, Daniel helped found Pownce � a social network that let you share files, events, messages, and links with your friends. Pownce was sold to blogging company SixApart in late 2008.