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Gentry Underwood
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Gentry Underwood is a designer and entrepreneur who has a passion for creating simple products that help people work together. He is the cofounder and CEO of Aspen, a new startup that’s transforming how people work together. Gentry was the lead designer at Dropbox, which he came to by way of Mailbox. Before cofounding Mailbox, the mobile inbox putting email in its place, Underwood led IDEO’s Knowledge Sharing domain.

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Often I think really great design disappears. You don't think about it. It's that 'of course' kind of feeling that I think is in so many of the great products that we've come to know and love over time.

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My first interaction design job, a project manager would write all the specs, and I’d just go build the wireframe. It’s not that way anymore. People are looking to designers to really be leaders.

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