About me

I’m Alessandro Mingione, a designer from Rome, Italy, living in Oakland, California. I’m a design generalist at heart: starting in my early teens, I dabbled in illustration, editorial, brand, web, and type design.

For the past decade I’ve been practicing interaction design, with a focus on security and privacy software.

I started at Palantir, where I led Design for the Foundry Security product area and collaborated with the Privacy and Civil Liberties team.

I then briefly contracted for Tonic, a startup that combines synthetic data and AI to create fake datasets that behave like the real deal.

I’m now at Tailscale, where we are making networking accessible to the masses. Here I’ve touched everything from our website and branded socks, to end to end workflows that span desktop, mobile, and web apps, designing some of our most clicked buttons and beloved rectangles.

Experience
  • Tailscale
    Designer
    2021 –
  • Various startups
    Consulting
    2020 –
    • Palantir
      Design Group Lead
      2018 – 20
    • Product Designer
      2013 – 18
    • Product Design Intern
      2013
  • ALA
    Co-Founder
    2010 –
  • Various clients
    Brand Designer
    2010 – 13
Education
  • Stanford Continuing Studies
    Philosophy
    2020 – 21
  • IUAV Venezia
    Interaction Design
    2012 – 13
  • HGB Leipzig
    Type Design
    2011 – 12
  • ABA Roma
    Editorial Design
    2009 – 12
  • ISIA Roma
    Industrial Design
    2009
When I'm not designing

You may find me sipping Taiwanese oolongs, hunting vintage menswear, and listening to hard bop, and funky jazz.

I keep a visual journal of food vessels immortalized after theyʼve served their purpose.