Daniel Burka (born December 17, 1978 in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

) is best known as the former

creative director A creative director (or creative supervisor) is a person who makes high-level creative decisions and, with those decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Creative director positions ar ...

for website

Digg Digg, stylized in lowercase as digg, is an American news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launch ...

and as a design partner at GV. He is also a founding partner at the web design company ''silverorange'' based in Charlottetown,

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, Canada. At ''silverorange'' Burka worked with

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on the original

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brand as part of a team including Jon Hicks called the Mozilla Visual Identity Team. The same team developed the Thunderbird identity and the Mozilla website. Burka joined Kevin Rose's company

in 2005 and served as head of design for 5 years. In January 2008, Burka co-founded the social networking service

Pownce Pownce was a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce was centered on sharing messages, files, events, and links with friends. The site launched on June 27 ...

. Pownce was acquired by

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on December 1, 2008 and the site was shut down on December 15, 2008 due to stagnant growth and lack of revenue. In September 2009, Burka announced that he was leaving Digg to join the gaming startup Tiny Speck, started by Flickr co-founder

Stewart Butterfield Daniel Stewart Butterfield (born Dharma Jeremy Butterfield; March 21, 1973) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, best known for co-founding the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack. Early life and education In ...

. In April 2011, Burka announced that he was leaving Tiny Speck to join as co-founder of Milk with

Kevin Rose Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's ''The Screen Savers''. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV. Earl ...

and Jeff Hodsdon. In March 2012 Kevin Rose posted that the Milk team (Daniel Burka, Chris Hutchins, Joshua Lane, and Kevin Rose) was joining Google. Burka was a design partner at GV for 5 years. At GV, Burka contributed to the book called Sprint about the

design sprint A design sprint is a time-constrained, five-phase process that uses design thinking with the aim of reducing the risk when bringing a new product, service or a feature to the market. The process aims to help teams to clearly define goals, validat ...

process, authored by Jake Knapp. Burka is currently the director of product and design at

Tom Frieden Thomas R. Frieden (born December 7, 1960) is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a $225million, five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease ...

's not-for-profit organization Resolve to Save Lives where he works on th
Simple.org
project. The goal of Resolve to Save Lives is to save 100 million lives from cardiovascular disease by catalyzing evidence-based measures in public health programs.Saving an additional 100 million lives
at

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References

External links

Daniel Burka's websitePodcast Interview with Daniel Burka 2021
1978 births Living people {{Canada-business-bio-stub