Daniel Burka

DANIEL BURKA is a product designer in San Francisco. For several years he was the creative director at Digg. Daniel recently rejoined with Digg’s Kevin Rose to co-found a small incubator company called Milk, where he’s the lead designer. Milk is an unusual little company that’s focused on building several startup ideas that have been percolating in the team’s collective brains.

Over the past twelve years, Daniel has worked on a wide spectrum of design challenges, from e-commerce and government intranets to Silicon Valley startups, game interfaces, rock band websites, and mobile applications. When he was 18, Daniel was one of the co-founders of the Canadian web agency, silverorange, and he learned how the web worked from their office in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Daniel is especially proud of his work on the Firefox brand and his responsibility for a major iteration of the Mozilla website in 2004. Part of that project included a few days designing the recently-retired Firefox start page which was loaded (at least) a bazillion times over its 5 year run.

Sometimes Daniel is fortunate enough to speak at conferences around the world such as this one. He’s especially fond of talking about iterative design strategies and developing great new-user experiences.