Connor Sears is a software designer

Co-founder and CEO of Rewatch (acq by Atlassian). Built design tools at Meta, led the product design team at GitHub, and designed at Pinterest and Twitter.

Sutro 2026

Sutro is a new email client designed for people and built for agents. Bring your own Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw agents and have them work with you directly in your inbox. This project is open for early access.

Sutro homepage

Sutro priority inbox showing a list of email conversations with status labels and a dock of connected agents

Sutro email thread with @mentioned agents collaborating on a partnership opportunity reply

Sutro email thread with a slash command menu open to invoke skills like draft, research, and review contract

Sutro automations settings panel listing background email rules with toggle switches

Grid of monochrome Sutro app icons including inbox, archive, compose, attachment, and search

Rewatch 2020-2025

Rewatch was the collaborative video hub that gave teams an AI meeting notetaker, a video library, and screen recording all-in-one. Founded in early 2020, I served as CEO and chief designer until Rewatch was acquired by Atlassian and we integrated its features into Loom as a key part of Atlassian's vision for AI-powered teamwork.

The Atlassian Blog — Atlassian welcomes the Rewatch team

Rewatch meeting page showing AI-generated notes, action items, and the recorded video player

Rewatch meetings page listing upcoming calendar events with recording toggles

Rewatch marketing homepage with the headline The collaborative video hub and a product screenshot

Rewatch marketing Collaborate section showing a transcript with highlights and threaded comments

Meta 2019-2020

Led a team of designers building internal design tools and infrastructure to support 800+ designers. Design systems, Sketch/Figma plugins, design review tools, automated quality checks, and Origami Studio.

Origami Studio

EveryTeam 2017-2019

EveryTeam was a central repository for all your team’s knowledge. As the design co-founder, I designed workflows to help teams curate knowledge, search across all their tools, and collaborate on large changes across many documents.

The EveryTeam Blog — Get a grip on your information bloat

EveryTeam Design collection page with pinned documents and a sidebar of team collections

EveryTeam Engineering re-org proposal page with review activity, change requests, and assigned reviewers

EveryTeam Proposals document with inline highlight and a resolved side comment thread

GitHub for Business 2017

Coordinated and led the GitHub for Business launch that included features like SAML single sign-on, automated user provisioning, premium support, and a guaranteed uptime SLA.

The GitHub Blog — Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

GitHub pricing page comparing Developer, Team, Business, and Enterprise plans

GitHub Universe product launches 2016

Led the product design direction for all the features that drove the 2016 GitHub Universe conference. We shipped Code review, Projects, Profiles, 2FA enforcement, and much more. I also pitched in and helped design and code the landing page.

GitHub Universe 2016 Code review Projects Profiles 2FA enforcement SD Times — GitHub cranks up project management

GitHub organization permissions 2015

Redesigned and coordinated the rollout of GitHub’s foundational permissions system that replaced a previous system was much too permissive and insecure. This project was deeply impactful for customers and remains the core of how developers collaborate and share code today.

The GitHub Blog — Improved organization permissions

GitHub organization team page showing per-repository access levels of read, write, and admin

GitHub organization member detail page listing each repository the user can access and their permission level

GitHub marketing landing page for organization permissions with a comparison of owner and member privileges

GitHub organizations 2014

Worked with a small team of engineers to redesign and restructure our organizations feature and make the core experience clearer and easier to manage.

The GitHub Blog — Better organizations

GitHub Boxen organization overview page with repositories, members, and teams

GitHub Boxen organization members list showing roles and membership history

GitHub Boxen organization teams page with member avatars and join and leave controls

Twitter profiles redesign 2012

Collaborated with the Identity team at Twitter to rethink profiles across web and mobile. We created a more dynamic header that highlights the user and worked with brands to make their presence on the platform more engaging.

Redesigned Twitter profiles shown on iPhone and Android devices for Jimmy Fallon, Doug Bowman, and Connor Sears

Photon 2015

Originally built for the audience of a 2015 Electron meetup at GitHub HQ, Photon was the missing UI kit for helping developers get a jumpstart on their desktop apps.

connors/photon

Photon UI kit homepage with a sample Electron app window demonstrating components built with HTML and CSS

Punt 2015

Punt was a simple iOS todo app that didn’t overthink things. A fun side project I used as an excuse to build an app with Swift.

App Store — Punt