Hi, I'm Michael

I’m a Creative Director of websites and applications for desktop, tablet and mobile. This site has examples of my projects, research and interests.

What is Experience Design?

Experience designers take ideas and goals and turn them into processes and interfaces that help users engage in the brand story.

My work

For over 15 years I’ve worked for many different verticals, learning different businesses help me cross-pollinate creative solutions to fit user goals.


See some projects


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Touch your presentation

In one-to-one conversations, powerpoint is death. How can tablets perfect presentations?

Cloud monitoring solution for hundreds to thousands
Designing the cloud

A global portal, made possible by iterative prototypes and HTML 5

The desktop design, launched and tied in with the movie coming out this winter.
Integrated Experience

Arctic Home is a multi-year cause marketing platform with desktop and

The crowdsourced material has spawned a broadway play
Let the crowd introduce you

Winner 3 Cannes Lions. Gold for best use of user-generated information..

Read some blog posts


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The design part of interaction design

From a recent lecture, here are the basics of what design means to

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4 steps to better UX: 3 Prototype it

There is no fonder word in my vocabulary than “prototype”. It connotes more

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Interface hero: Lokesh Dhakar and lightbox.js

If you’ve been following the progress of the web over time, it seemed

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4 steps to better UX: 2 Sketch it, test it.

The next step after you’ve refined your value proposition and created personas is


Brands I’ve worked with