Lead AI Product Designer
Shaping AI workspaces for understanding, developing, and collaborating around stories.
Explore Story HubHI, I’M MICHAEL.Designer.
Designer.
Builder.
Curious human.
I’m a product designer working across AI, enterprise tools, and consumer experiences. At Netflix, I lead AI product design for the people behind the stories.
I turn ambiguous problems into a direction teams can build: a product vision, an interaction model, and working prototypes that make the decisions tangible. Across Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, and Apple, I’ve stayed close to both the system and the details.
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THE JOURNEY SO FARDifferent scales.
Different scales.
A connected point of view.
Senior Interaction Designer
Connecting marketing workflows through a shared AI experience and north-star vision.
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Product Designer
Bringing small-business hiring into the mobile moments where decisions happen.
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Apple
UX Designer
Rethinking ATLAS through information architecture, accessible components, and personalization.
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Product design
Building a foundation in end-to-end product thinking through the returns experience.
HOW I THINK ABOUT AIAI should make people
AI should make people
feel more capable.
Understanding before generation.
Start with the work people need to do. Context makes a powerful capability useful.
Context in Story HubTrust lives in the interaction.
Keep evidence close, make uncertainty legible, and let people question and shape the result.
Rationale in MandalaPrototype the behavior.
Make hierarchy, transitions, and controls tangible. A working prototype lets the team examine how a product behaves and make the next decision together.
From prototype to alignmentSHARING WHAT I LEARNThe work grows
The work grows
when we share it.
From the personality of AI to the story behind a portfolio, I bring what I’m learning into talks, student mentorship, and conversations with the next generation of designers.
- Speaking
AI & Design
- Speaking
Design Portfolios
- Speaking
Design Portfolios
- Speaking
AI UX Summit
Designing the personality of software
· Live online - JudgingStartUp ’26
Semi-finals judge
SCAD’s annual design entrepreneurship competition - MentoringStudent mentoring
Portfolio reviews, case study structure, and storytelling
FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLEWhat it’s like
What it’s like
to work together.
A few words from the people I’ve built with.
01–02 / 05
“Working with Michael has been one of the most collaborative partnerships I’ve experienced. He shares his thinking openly, welcomes pushback, and treats every project as a team effort.”
“Michael combines exceptional speed with remarkable creativity. He turns ideas into tangible experiences incredibly quickly, embraces feedback as fuel, and consistently pushes our thinking beyond the obvious.”
“Michael brought super useful and great insights. He always demonstrated solid experience in the tools and systems we used, and was always open-minded, receptive to feedback and extremely easy to work with.”
“Your ability to transform our strategy document into a compelling story is superb. Your future-looking mocks will be used by a VP of marketing to pitch our value.”
“Michael is an MVP teammate that any company is lucky to have. He has the amazing ability to grasp complicated systems in a very short time, and is very thoughtful and generous with his feedback.”
A few moments along the way.
Places I’ve wandered. Moments I wanted to keep.
A few things
that keep me curious.
01 / ROOTSToronto raised, with Greek roots. Five years in the Bay Area brought me west; Las Vegas is home now.
02 / SOMEWHERE NEWI love traveling, exploring new places, and trying foods I haven’t had before. I live in the desert, but cooler destinations tend to win me over.
03 / BEYOND THE SCREENBasketball and photography are two of my favorite things outside design. And when I’m back at a screen, there’s usually a side project taking shape.