Alasdair Monk is a software designer.

I'm founding designer at poolside, a new ml startup for crafting good code.

Previously, I led the Product Design, Creative Design and Design Engineering teams at Vercel as VP of Design.

before that, I worked as a Principal Designer at HashiCorp and Experience Architect at Heroku.

I like to spend my days building things for developers and my nights building things for myself. In my spare time I make Mac apps as one half of replay.software.

Work

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poolside
Founding Designer
2023 – Now 
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Vercel
VP of Design
2022 – 2023
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HashiCorp
Principal Designer
2021 – 2022
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Heroku
UX Architect
2015 – 2021
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GoCardless
Head of Design
2013 – 2015

Projects

Ports logo
Ports
Network utility for monitoring port activity
macOS
Sleeve logo
Sleeve
Your music, on your desktop, your way
macOS
Umbra logo
Umbra
The missing dark mode app for the Mac
macOS
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ogpk
open graph data fetching from the cli
cli

Angel Investments

I invest in early stage startups that are building tools for developers. I like to be hands on and help founders with product design, engineering and hiring.

Paper logo
Paper
Angel Investor & Advisor
2024 – Now 
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Incident.io
Angel Investor & Advisor
2021 – Now 
Actively investing in new dev tools. Get in touch

Archived Projects

Ha
Hampstead Heath Pondbot
GPT-3 powered pond temperature tracker
web
Cu
CustomBoy
Customise your own GameBoy in a 3d editor
web
Py
Pylon
Declarative layout primitives for the web
web
nx
nxo
Sugary CLI ux for Nix
cli
Su
Surfrider
DSL for building reactive Salesforce apps
web

© 2025 Alasdair Monk.