Mike Thomas
Product Design Lead
London

I'm a deeply purpose driven designer who believes that good design should be an inclusive, multi-disciplinary team sport.

For nearly fifteen years, I’ve combined Product, Service and Visual Design disciplines—with a side-order of front-end—to help start-ups, scale-ups and enterprises grow, level-up, and move faster.

My design stack currently includes a lot of Figma, Miro, Obsidian for writing, and ChatGPT for moving faster, although I’ll never tire of getting messy with pens and paper.

Outside of work, I'm passionate about running, great coffee, and old book smells. I'm currently teaching myself how to play chess properly, targeting a half marathon pb, and am informally developing some coaching skills aimed at early-career designers and creatives.

Say hi via email or find me on LinkedIn.

Nice words from awesome people

"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

"Just wanted to re-iterate that I’m incredibly grateful for everything you’ve done for me. I couldn’t have wished for a better line manager. "

Dom Hart, Senior Brand Designer

Organisations I've helped

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Career