Blake Manzo

I lead teams that grow the business and improve the experience.

Currently leading monetization design at Sony PlayStation, directing a team of 20 designers shaping how 130M+ players discover, buy, engage with their games.

The Picsart logo centered, with various graphic design user interface elements and photos scattered around it.
All Grown Up: Rebranding Picsart

How Product Design drives and implements a new brand. We took a step back to think about the future and where we are headed as a company, and how our brand needed to adapt to support this vision.

Screenshot of Google after searching for The Last of Us, covered in Fungus
Design for Moments of Delight

Google “The Last of Us” and you’ll get an easter egg button you can mash that slowly grows fungus on the screen. 🍄 It’s a perfect example of designing for ✨ moments of delight ✨ to create an emotional connection with people.

AI Generated image of Baby Yoda
Teaching ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney

Level up your generative AI image prompts by teaching ChatGPT to generate them for you. Basic principles that apply to any prompt-based input on how to teach AI to prompt AI.

Giant towering Barbie Doll next to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
From Toy to Titan: Innovative Marketing Activations behind the Barbie Effect

Out of the hundreds of activations, six stood out as innovate and well designed.

A cross-section artists’ rendering of Sphere, showing the bowl and atrium inside the structure.
The Las Vegas Sphere: a new horizon in immersive experience design

In an intersection of digital and physical, the dome-shaped building provides an awe-inspiring multisensory experience.

Screenshot of the Twitter onboarding experience, showing a puzzle to solve by moving a shape around to match an example image.
Twitter Onboarding Design: What Not To Do

The Twitter onboarding verification experience showcases what not do to pretty well. Recently going through this process for a new account, I encountered...

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