LinkedIn — unsolicited redesign concept

Surface 01

The feed, triageable without reading it.

One colour per content type, carried on the spine of the card. A hiring post, a milestone, a piece of writing and an ad are four different things, so they stop looking like four copies of the same white rectangle.

What are you working on?

Writing Hiring Milestone Question

Priya Raghavan

Head of engineering at Fernloop

4h · to her network

Hiring

We're adding two people to the platform team this quarter. Both roles are remote within the US, both are backfills rather than growth bets, and I'll answer the obvious question before it's asked: the band is published below.

Senior Platform Engineer $170,000 – $210,000 Fernloop · Remote (US) · Posted 4 hours ago · 2 openings

86 reactions 14 comments

Tomas Beck

Now: data engineer at Quillhaven Health

Yesterday

Milestone

Started something new. Seven months between roles, which I'd rather say out loud than quietly round off — a lot of people in my feed are in the middle of the same gap and the silence doesn't help any of us.

1,204 reactions 97 comments

Promoted · you are seeing this because an advertiser paid for it Why this ad

Ambletree

Workflow software · 18,400 followers

Your team is probably tracking this work in a spreadsheet. Ambletree replaces the spreadsheet with something that notices when a task is late.

31 reactions 2 comments

Nell Adeyemi

Design systems lead at Saltmarsh

2d · 6 min read

Writing

We spent a quarter rebuilding our component library and the measurable win wasn't speed. It was that designers stopped inventing new greys.

A design system's job is to make the boring decision the easy one.

Thirty-one greys went in. Six came out. Nobody has asked for the other twenty-five back, which tells you most of them were never decisions — they were someone's eyedropper at 6pm.

643 reactions 58 comments

Surface 02

The profile, proof first.

The thing that demonstrates someone can do the job leads. The chronology still exists — it just stops being the headline act, because a list of dates has never been the reason anyone got hired.

Dara Okonjo

Staff product designer — design systems, and the arguments that come with them.

Chicago · Open to staff and principal roles

Message

What I actually shipped

Three things, with numbers

31 → 6

Greys in the design system

Rebuilt the colour layer at Saltmarsh. Every token measured; nothing shipped below AA.

4 days

New screen, concept to staging

Was eleven. The win came from deleting choices, not from adding tooling.

9 of 9

Teams on one component set

Including the two that had forked it. Migration took a quarter and one very long document.

Where that happened

The short version

2023 — now Staff product designer · SaltmarshDesign systems, accessibility, and the colour argument above.

2020 — 2023 Senior product designer · Quillhaven HealthPatient-facing scheduling. Shipped to people who were not having a good day.

2018 — 2020 Product designer · AmbletreeFirst design hire. Learned what that actually costs.

Surface 03

Jobs that say the number.

Pay is stated, or its absence is drawn as a visible hole rather than quietly left out. The match score shows its working, because a percentage you can't interrogate is decoration with a decimal point.

Senior Product Designer

Fernloop · Remote (US)

$165,000 – $195,000 Band published

Why this matched88%

✓ 6 of 7 listed skills on your profile

✓ Remote US, which you filtered for

— No motion design on your profile

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Principal Designer

Dunmore Systems · Chicago, hybrid

Pay not disclosed Asked, no answer

Why this matched71%

✓ Design systems named in the description

✓ Chicago, 3 miles from you

— Wants 10+ years; you have 8

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Design Systems Lead

Quillhaven Health · Remote (US)

$180,000 – $215,000 Band published

Why this matched94%

✓ You worked here 2020–2023

✓ 7 of 7 listed skills

✓ Two former colleagues still on the team

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LinkedIn already runs on dopamine.

It just dresses like a bank. The red dot, the streaks, the impression counter, the nudge to congratulate someone you have never met — the mechanics are tuned for compulsion, while the surface is one blue and a grey card doing fourteen jobs. The redesign doesn't add stimulation. It moves the colour off the engagement and onto the content, so the loudest thing on the page is what a post is rather than how many people have already tapped it.

Why this one is pink

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so this month's concept wears pink rather than the blues and limes it was first built in. That is the whole of the connection, and we would rather say so than let a colour imply something else.

Tiny Byte Studio is not affiliated with any breast cancer organisation, is not fundraising, and is not donating a share of anything. Nothing on this page is a campaign, and looking at it does not support a cause. If you want to do something useful this month, give to a breast cancer charity directly — not to a design studio that painted a web page pink.

Every post is the same rectangle

A role opening, a layoff announcement, an ad and an engagement-bait question all arrive as one white card with the same avatar size and the same type scale. Classification is left entirely to reading.

ConceptA colour per type, carried on the card's spine and repeated in a chip. You can triage the column at arm's length.

The ad is styled like a friend

Promoted posts are labelled — in small grey type under the name, at the same weight as a timestamp. The label is technically present and visually absent.

ConceptA hot pink band across the full width, stating plainly that an advertiser paid for the placement. Honest labelling is a design problem before it is a legal one.

The right rail is landfill

News, "add to your feed", "people also viewed", another ad. Four low-signal modules competing with the one column the visitor came for.

ConceptOne module: what changed since you were last here. Three lines, each of which is a thing you'd want to know.

The profile buries the proof

About, then Activity, then Experience, then Skills — every section the same weight, so the work that proves someone can do the job sits four scrolls below a job title and two dates.

ConceptThree outcomes with numbers on them, first. The chronology compresses to a strip underneath, where it still answers "where" without being the headline.

A match percentage with no working shown

"88% match" and "Be an early applicant" are offered as reasons to apply, with nothing a candidate can check, argue with, or act on.

ConceptThe score itemises: what matched, and the one thing that didn't. A gap you can see is a gap you can close.

Saturated is easy; legible is the job

The usual objection to loud saturated colour is that it cannot survive an accessibility audit, which is why it gets assumed to be for soda brands rather than for software people use all day.

ConceptEvery pair here was measured. The worst intended combination on the page is 5.27:1, comfortably past AA — and the two that failed as text, the rose and the coral pink, are why both are backgrounds and never a word. A second measurement matters just as much once a palette sits in one hue family: the four content types are separated by lightness and split across two hue families, so the closest pair of them still measures far enough apart to read as different colours rather than as one colour having an off day.

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"LinkedIn" and all other company and product names shown here are the trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the subject of this concept. No affiliation or sponsorship is claimed or implied. All page content is a mock-up: every person, company, job, salary, statistic and post shown is invented for this concept, and nothing here is a real offer, vacancy, pay figure or statement by LinkedIn or by anyone else. Commentary describes the live site as observed in September 2026 and is offered as design criticism. The real site is at linkedin.com.

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