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Michael Kronthal shared thisProud to have played a small role alongside so many talented teammates who carried the vision of what we could achieve and persevered through trial and error to reach this amazing milestone 💚Michael Kronthal shared thisWe’re honored to be recognized on TIME’s 2025 Best Inventions list for LimeGlider, in the Transportation category. ⚡ ️ LimeGlider was built to make sustainable transportation more accessible, approachable, and enjoyable for riders everywhere. This recognition celebrates the innovation, collaboration, and dedication of the teams who brought LimeGlider from concept to city streets across the globe. Together, we’re proving that purposeful choices can create big change. When sustainable transport is designed for everyone, it moves us all toward a greener, more connected world. Here’s to riding on towards a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. 🌍 🛴 🚲 Time Inc. https://lnkd.in/ecduzXkV
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Michael Kronthal shared thisHey Chicago friends! Anna-Lisa was a valuable member of my team at Hinge Health. Her talents as a Researcher are only exceeded by her passionate empathy for her users and deep desire to help her partner teams exceed their customers' expectations. Please drop her a note and welcome her to the Windy City!Michael Kronthal shared this❓Can you help me connect with product and design folks in Chicago? As a part of exploring this next phase of my career, my husband, our two poodles and I are in Chicago from now until the end of September. As a researcher through and through, I'm experimenting with life in a new place this month. A few goals I have for the next five weeks: - 💻 Meet with local UX/product/tech folks here to find out more about the Chicago market - 🥂 Attend some local Meetup groups - going to my first UXR happy hour tomorrow night (yay!) - 🍕 Find some great gluten free pizza - 🐶 Check out the best dog parks in Chicago If you know of anyone in Chicago who'd like to meet up or have any other recommendations on the above, please send me a DM!
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Michael Kronthal shared this💚Michael Kronthal shared thisWe're honored to be named one of Time Inc.'s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025! #TIME100Companies This recognition belongs to every rider who's chosen a Lime e-bike over a car ride, every city partner who's embraced micromobility, and every team member working to make transportation shared, affordable and carbon-free. Together, we're proving that small choices create big change. When sustainable transport becomes the easiest option, entire communities get healthier, happier and more connected. Here's to building a future where clean mobility isn't just possible – it's inevitable. 🌱 https://lnkd.in/ezmAzpA3
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Michael Kronthal shared thisCongratulations Daniel Perez and Gabe and all the Hinge Health team members who contributed to this milestone over the years, especially my peeps in Research and Design! 🎉Michael Kronthal shared thisOver a decade ago, we set out to reimagine healthcare. Today, we celebrate going public as $HNGE at NYSE. To our members, partners, clients, and remarkable team—thank you for making this milestone possible.
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Michael Kronthal reposted thisMichael Kronthal reposted this📣 We're hiring (again)! I'm excited to share TWO new contract UXR roles opening up on my team at Lime. 𝟭. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗫 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 You will lead research across top hardware priorities including new vehicle form factors and parking infrastructure, among others. Your work will ensure our hardware is easy to use for a diverse range of riders and abilities. We're looking for this person to be co-located with our Industrial Design team and are hiring specifically in the Bay Area. ➡️ Apply directly here: https://lnkd.in/gE5cA3zY 𝟮. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗨𝗫 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 You will lead research to support teams working on rider-facing experiences, as well as back-of-house operations. We are looking for leaders who have an arsenal of qualitative and quantitative UXR tools, and who are able to jump in to deliver core tactical studies, as well as identifying and delivering foundational UXR to drive our business forwards. ➡️ Apply directly here: https://lnkd.in/gQ2CB8Et #uxresearch #hiring
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Michael Kronthal shared this#INTERNSHIPSPOTLIGHT 🩷Meet Kylie Kronthal!! Kylie says: “Hi! I'm Kylie Kronthal, a junior studying Integrated Marketing Communications with a minor in Business. This summer, I’m excited to be joining ServiceNow as a Global Sales Development Intern at their San Diego office. I’m eager to gain hands on experience in sales and marketing, while learning from a dynamic and innovative team. I’m looking forward to diving into new challenges, expanding my skills, and making the most of this incredible opportunity! ” We are so proud of you Kylie!! #olemisswib -
Michael Kronthal reposted thisMichael Kronthal reposted thisAs we kick off 2025, there’s no better time to take the leap toward your next big opportunity. 🚀 At Gametime, we’re all about building incredible teams and empowering people to do their best work. Ready to make 2025 the year you level up your career? Explore these hot jobs and more on our careers page: https://lnkd.in/gpTv_8v
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Michael Kronthal reposted thisMichael Kronthal reposted this🎉 I’m excited to share that I’m working on a Senior Design Manager to join the LinkedIn Product Design Team preferably in the Bay Area 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity to lead design strategy and execution for products that shape the future of hiring and career development. As the Senior Design Manager, you’ll have the chance to: ✨ Set a vision: Drive the design approach for tools that empower professionals and hiring teams worldwide. ✨ Inspire innovation: Work at the intersection of AI and design to create meaningful, user-centric solutions. ✨ Lead and grow: Guide a talented team of designers while collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering leaders. We’re looking for someone with a deep passion for design leadership, a strong product mindset, and a curiosity for how AI can elevate user experiences. This role is perfect for a forward-thinking design leader who’s excited to work at scale and make an impact in the world of talent solutions. If you’d like to chat more about this role or think you might be a fit, send me a message! Let’s connect and talk about how this could be your next big career move. #Hiring #DesignLeadership #ProductDesign #AI #LinkedIn
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Surprised ramps (my vote) was so low. As a runner I really appreciate them as I'm cruising around my neighborhood. But I will say that closed captioning really helped my daughter develop her reading skills when she was struggling in middle school much better than any nagging we did as her parents.
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This is precisely why I think companies who are reducing their UX Researchers and relying on PMs and Designers to conduct "research" with AI are at risk of making a huge mistake. You've got to know the rules (research science) to break them (AI for research) or you could be confidently speeding off in the wrong direction.
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked thisBreaking news: Outset now has eyes 👀 and Michael Hess puts cereal on hotdogs? When we built AI-moderated research, we unlocked the power to listen to humans at scale. But listening is only half of research — the other half is seeing. Today, we're launching Visual Intelligence so you can go beyond listening. Now you can listen, see, and understand your customers more deeply than ever before. 🎉 → Digital Intelligence: Captures click paths, friction moments, and non-verbal cues during usability studies. → Emotional Intelligence: Reads expressions and tone shifts to understand how people truly feel. → Physical Intelligence: Observes real-world behavior during in-home testing and shopalongs. And it doesn't just see, it probes about it in real-time based on what it observes, and surfaces those moments automatically in your analysis. Closing the gap between what people say and what they do has always been the holy grail of research. Now, you can do it more confidently than ever before. Watch the full video to learn more + judge Michael's hotdog condiment choices! 🌭 👉 Read about it: https://lnkd.in/gJXsQuhY 👉 See it live: https://outset.ai/demo
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked thisEvery product builder in SaaS should read the leaked Claude Code source code carefully. See image below for where CC is going. The implication for SaaS builders is pretty clear. If your product is designed around explicit user actions and linear workflows, you’re already behind. The new interface layer isn’t forms or dashboards. it’s coordination: - Between humans and agents - Between multiple agents - Across synchronous and asynchronous work Worth paying attention because the real question isn’t what features to ship, but what role your product plays in a world where work runs itself.
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Michael Kronthal liked thisLong live humans.Michael Kronthal liked thisAt some point, we’ve all had that unsettling feeling that something is off with our health - but with nowhere to take it. Today we’re proud to introduce 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡: a separate, secure space within Copilot where medical intelligence makes sense of your information and delivers personalized health insights that you can act on. It doesn’t replace your doctor - it helps you walk in to see them better prepared, with the right questions and the right context: 📚 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭. Responses grounded in credible sources across 50 countries such as Harvard Health, with clear citations and featuring expert‑written guidance. 📊 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞. Connect electronic health records from 50,000+ US providers, wearable data from 50+ devices including Apple Health, Oura and Fitbit, and comprehensive lab results from Function. 🧠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬. Identify patterns across your sleep, activity, symptoms, and health history to surface insights you can act on. 🔒 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧. An isolated data model, strict data controls, no use of your information for model training, and externally-audited ISO/IEC 42001 certification. 👩⚕️ 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. The clinical expertise on our team is augmented by input from 230+ physicians, and the experience tested prior to general release with a diverse set of users via partners like AARP and the National Health Council. We’re making Copilot Health available through a careful, phased rollout. Today we’re opening a waitlist to join our early community shaping the experience. To learn more, and sign up to the waitlist go here: https://lnkd.in/e9hyaEKa Dominic King, MD PhD Bay Gross Christopher Kelly Harsha Nori Mustafa Suleyman
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Michael Kronthal liked thisAbsolutely thrilled about the Tezi team joining Headway :)Michael Kronthal liked thisSix months ago, I started spending most of my time on AI to understand what it can meaningfully change about mental health care for providers and their patients. I’ve been consuming millions of tokens a week, stress-testing what's real, and working with our team to figure out where we can make the most impact. Headway has been innovating behind the scenes, and today we're accelerating our investment by acquiring the team behind Tezi, an AI-native company. Mental health is one of the most complex corners of healthcare. Providers spend too much time dealing with insurance, billing, and admin when they could be focusing on patients. Patients, meanwhile, struggle to find the right clinician, understand their coverage, or get an appointment when they need one. The connective tissue between patients, providers, and payers is fragmented in ways that make care harder to access and deliver. We believe humans plus AI will be better than either alone: clinicians supported by intelligent systems, and patients guided to the right care faster. We know we've only scratched the surface of what AI can do for Headway and the people it supports, and are investing heavily to learn the potential. The Tezi team are exceptional builders across engineering, product, and design who share our conviction that the hardest problems require humans and AI working together. They built systems where human judgment and AI collaborate inside complex, real-world workflows, removing the tedious stuff so professionals can focus on the work that actually requires their expertise. That approach maps directly to what we're building at Headway. Raghavendra Prabhu, who founded and led Tezi, is joining as VP of Engineering. He's built and scaled systems at Covariant, Thumbtack, Pinterest, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft. I was blown away by what he and the team built, and I'm thrilled they're joining us to do this work for our 70,000+ providers and the millions of patients they serve. If you want to build at the intersection of AI and health care with a team that's moving fast and thinking big, we're hiring: https://headway.co/careers
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked thisWe set a goal for Hinge Health Design that by March 31st, 100% of product designers will have shipped code to production... and we did it! 🚀 Every designer (managers included) spun up a dev environment, merged a PR, and took full ownership of experience quality all the way through production. Regardless of it being a small UI tweak or full component update, it marks a big milestone towards expanding design's impact in an AI-native world. Seeing our Slack channels ping with back-to-back celebratory posts has been such a thrill. I couldn't be more proud of the momentum this team has created! Ready to join our crew? We're just getting started! https://lnkd.in/gCh8Nzyw
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked thisToday, Abridge is launching clinical decision support, backed by trusted evidence from UpToDate and shaped by the conversation in the room. Building this meant solving for something most CDS tools have never had to consider: what does the evidence look like when it actually knows the patient? Clinical conversations have always been one of the richest signals in medicine. They hold everything: the patient's history, their medications, the clinical picture forming in real time. But that signal has never been connected to the evidence base that could make it actionable. If building at the intersection of AI and healthcare's most complex and most human moments sounds like your kind of challenge, we're hiring. Come build something that matters!
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked this57% of healthcare execs say AI clinical tools are their top priority and 57% of patients say AI isn't ready to be trusted. That's not a data conflict — it's a design problem. I lead design at Logitech across healthcare (among other verticals), and here's what's being overlooked: trust isn't just about the AI. It's about what the AI looks like when it shows up in the room. Right now in some cases, clinicians are accessing AI tools on their personal phones. To the patient in the chair, that doesn't look like cutting-edge care — it may look like their doctor is checking texts. The most powerful model in the world doesn't matter if the patient doesn't trust what they're seeing. Hardware shapes perception and perception shapes trust. And trust is the thing that 57% of patients are telling us is missing. If your AI strategy doesn't have a hardware strategy, you don't have a strategy. https://lnkd.in/g6wVPXrR #HealthTech #IndustrialDesign #AIinHealthcare #ProductDesign
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Michael Kronthal liked thisMichael Kronthal liked thisWHOOP is leveling up. The wearable company raised $575M at a $10.1B valuation to fuel international expansion, invest in R&D, and accelerate its push into personalized, preventive health. The raise comes as WHOOP continues to evolve beyond fitness tracking — combining wearable data, AI, ECG, blood pressure insights, longevity features, and Advanced Labs into a broader health platform. As wearables converge around diagnostics, guidance, and long-term health, WHOOP is betting scale, clinical credibility, and daily engagement can help it lead the next phase of connected health. Read the full story for more insight → https://lnkd.in/ecRghsNS
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I support the career growth and development needs of Research professionals and those aspiring to become one who have had their careers disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing industry challenges. I appreciate the opportunity to "pay forward" the good fortune I have had in my own career and to "pay back" the support I've received from others who came before me.
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