My career has centered on designing products during pivotal moments of category change — from the early creator economy at YouTube, to the first self-driving rideshare experience at Uber, to the global travel marketplace at Airbnb, to 0-to-1 social product incubation at Meta, to pioneering social audio at Clubhouse.
Across those teams, I've worked as both an individual contributor and a design leader. I partner with founders, executives, and product teams on the decisions that most shape product direction, design quality, and team effectiveness.
NIUX Studio is how I work now — not as an external agency delivering decks, but as a partner embedded directly inside teams.
Let's work together
In the age of AI, execution is abundant.
Taste and judgment are not.
I help teams sharpen product direction, raise design quality, and make better decisions when the stakes are high.
Design Advisor
For founders and executives who need experienced product design judgment.
Strategic counsel for leaders navigating design-critical decisions across product direction, prioritization, and execution.
Fractional Head of Design
For teams with designers in place but no senior design leadership.
Embedded design leadership to set standards, guide decision-making, mentor team members, and strengthen the systems behind great work.
Hiring Sprint
For companies making a high-leverage product design hire.
A focused engagement to define the hiring bar, build a structured interview process, and evaluate candidates with rigor and consistency. Hiring judgment shaped across YouTube, Uber, Airbnb, Meta, and Clubhouse — applied to the decision that compounds the most.
Targeted Sprint
For a launch, redesign, or product moment that needs exceptional craft.
A partnership centered on one important initiative. Whether it's a 0-to-1 launch, a rebrand, or a critical redesign — I work directly with your team to frame the problem, explore the space, and ship with conviction.
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Nix + User Experience — a practice grounded in product thinking and design craft.
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Nix + You — an embedded partnership model built around close collaboration, not agency handoff.
Want to work together?
If you're navigating a product inflection point, let's talk.
About NIUX Studio
NIUX Studio is the independent product design practice of Molly Nix. Molly partners with founders and product teams on product design strategy, fractional design leadership, design hiring, launches, and redesigns. Her experience includes leadership and hands-on product work at Clubhouse, Meta, Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube.