Product design and leadership for orgs making a difference.

Zero-to-one projects, design systems, accessibility, growing design teams, and solving gnarly problems.

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About

I’m a multiple-hat-wearing, purpose-driven design lead with 14+ years of experience working in B2B SaaS, enterprise and B2C contexts in logistics, education, consumer finance and energy.

I believe that good design is a non-hierarchical, multi-disciplinary team sport, and successful teams win by raising each other up.

My design stack includes a lot of Figma, Miro, Obsidian for writing, and ChatGPT for moving faster.

Outside of work, I'm passionate about running, great coffee, and old book smells. I'm currently teaching myself how to play chess properly, how to prompt in Midjourney, and am also informally developing some coaching skills targeting early career designers and technologists.

Say hi via email or find me on LinkedIn.

Colleague reviews

"Mike's blend of leadership, design expertise, and genuine care for his colleagues made a lasting impact on both the team and the products we created. I have no doubt that any team would greatly benefit from his talent and leadership."

Hua Zhang, Lead Service Designer

"Mike is a talented designer and thoughtful leader. His expertise in all aspects of design from research, to UX and UI was extremely valuable to have within our product team. Additionally, Mike is an absolute pleasure to work with and would be an asset to any company."

Pat Potestas, Senior Product Manager

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