Jeffrey Kalmikoff: Digg’s New Director of Design and User Experience

At the end of this month Jeffrey Kalmikoff is taking the design helm at Digg as our new director of design and user experience. Jeffrey will be leading all aspects of user experience and interface design at Digg. He’s a stellar designer and leader, who until recently was chief creative officer at Threadless and SkinnyCorp. I’m thrilled to be placing Digg in such good hands as I pursue a new project. I’ll continue to remain very involved with Digg as a frequent advisor and design consultant (and of course as a user!).

In October, I will be joining my friends Cal Henderson and Stewart Butterfield (and several other ex-Flickr folks) building a game under the company name Tiny Speck. Sign up over at TinySpeck.com to learn more. I’m excited to be digging (heh heh) into a fresh project with new and exciting challenges but it’s bittersweet to be stepping away from Digg.

Over the course of the past four and a half years that I’ve been working Digg, it has undergone many changes and we’re extremely grateful to all of you who’ve helped shape the site through your participation, feedback, and passion. I take with me so many great memories and experiences from my time here. We have some great ideas currently under development and I know Jeffrey and his team will infuse them with much awesome.

Jeffrey has very strong experience designing a thriving community-driven website. You are the ones who make Digg tick and I am very confident that Jeffrey will be able to support you with Digg’s design. He’ll be looking for your feedback to design the future of Digg and I’m sure you won’t be shy in offering it to him!

My hat goes off to you, Digg readers, participants, and fans! Please join me in welcoming Jeffrey to the Digg family and thank you for everything. Daniel (Digg, Twitter)