Metalab

2025, shipped.

Last week, we brought together our community of designers and product builders in SF to mark 20 years of Metalab. Metalab has been shaped by incredible people with ambitious ideas, and many of them call San Francisco home. It was great to see so many in one room. Thanks to everyone who joined us and made it a night to remember.

Great products start with great people. We’re hiring across design, brand, and motion: → Design Director → Brand Director → Design Lead → Motion Design Specialist If you care deeply about craft, collaboration, and shaping products used by millions, we’d love to hear from you. 🔗 Check out our open roles - link in thread.

Every studio has a story. ✨ When we launched the Studio Spotlights series last September, the goal was simple: to create a space for studios to tell their own stories. Since then, we've had the privilege of publishing stories from teams across the creative web, sharing their journeys, perspectives, challenges, and selected works in their own words. Featured work in this reel by: Uncommon @14islands @FiddleDigital @basementstudio @ExoApe @metalab @obys_agency @StudioMalvah Thank you to all the studios who have contributed to the series. We can't wait to share more stories. Explore all Studio Spotlights: tympanus.net/codrops/tag/st…

We're heading to SXSW London 🇬🇧 Join our CEO @Desdeke for 'Building Products That Stick', where he’ll share lessons on creating products people keep coming back to: sxswlondon.com/session/buildi… See you there. #SXSWLondon

@greg16676935420 Proud to push the industry forward with this monumental design choice 😎

🚨BREAKING: For the first time in history an AI company has chosen not to make their logo look like a butthole

Stronger together. We teamed up with @sweatpals to create a brand that celebrates connection through movement. From visual identity and messaging to typography, color, and design systems, every element was crafted to transform everyday moments into meaningful, shared experiences. Designing not just for workouts, but for community, growth, and joy.

Today, @MichaelElabd, @QuantumArjun, and I are excited to announce Trajectory. We are a research lab and product company building the platform for Continual Learning. Our platform unlocks the signal already sitting in product usage, so companies can continuously post-train large-scale agentic models that outperform the frontier. @trajectorylabs We’ve raised $15M from @Conviction, @BessemerVP, @radicalvcfund, @jeffdean, @drfeifei and more. We’re partnering with some of the best AI-native companies: @ClayRunHQ @Harvey, @DecagonAI, @mercor_ai, @RogoAI to power their agentic systems, some of which we are already in production with. We’ve brought together a world class research team from DeepMind, OpenAI, Apple, Meta Superintelligence, Amazon AGI, Scale AI, and an elite product team from Stripe and Figma. AI will never again start on day one. Every correction, every retry, every edit will make products smarter. This is Continual Learning.

Check out the full experience: 🔗 getoro.xyz

@getoro_xyz is a platform where your data powers AI, and you stay in control (and get rewarded). We partnered with them to build the system behind their product, engineering, brand and marketing site.

@suno just hit #1 on the App Store. A major milestone for a team pushing the boundaries of creative AI. Grateful to have been along for the ride.

@heybilaaal @RobinhoodApp It was a treat to work on. Thanks for the share!

looks like the wizards at @metalab had way too much fun with @RobinhoodApp nice read: metalab.com/work/robinhood

Now live: our work for @RobinhoodApp. A new UI framework for the most iconic name in fintech, shaped by 3D treatments and expressive data visualization. 🔗 Full case study below.

“The go-to design firm for the UX of AI products”. Honoured to be named one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Design Companies for 2026.

Congratulations to our friends at InterPositive and @RedBirdCap on their acquisition by @netflix. Thanks for letting us be a part of the ride. variety.com/2026/film/news…

The State of Coding Agents for 2026. Our Engineering Director, Paul Straw, shares what he learned testing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI in real production work. What helps, what doesn’t, and why benchmarks aren’t the whole story. 🔗 Full post + video in thread.

@codrops Thanks for including us! ❤️

Since 2006, @metalab has helped build some of the internet's most familiar products. In our latest Studio Spotlight, their team shares how they've shipped 475+ products by combining craft-first design, durable systems, and hands-on execution: tympanus.net/codrops/2026/0…