Product designer · b-boy · Dallas

Turning messy, multi-platform products into systems people rely on.

I design and build digital products with the same discipline I bring to the floor. I also prototype in code, so less gets lost between the mockup and the build.

PREVA-D Global · Breakin' Boundaries · fromAtoB

DOINGDesign systems · designing for AI · prototyping in code

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Michael in a one-handed freeze mid-set, breaking — B-BOY

Experience

A-D GlobalProduct Designer
2024 – 2026
Breakin' BoundariesUX Designer
2020 – 2023
fromAtoBProduct Designer
2019 – 2020

Selected work

The fromAtoB controls sheet: checkboxes, radios, and switches across interaction states, in light and on dark

Design systems

Design handoff went from 45 minutes to 10.

One governed system for web, iOS, and Android, cut from 28 colors to 17 and 80 components to 47.

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The MileIQ Recommendations screen on an iPhone: unclassified drives with suggested Business and Personal labels

Designing for AI

One reviewable list lifted the classification rate by 10–20 percentage points.

Sole designer on the trust, review, and bulk classification patterns around a model that is sometimes wrong.

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Audits

Independent reviews of live products, done on my own time, with narrated recordings, evidence-backed findings, and concept screens. I have no relationship with the companies I review.

A concept screen from the Aside audit, not Aside’s live UI: a finished agent task showing its cost, 145 credits or 29% of the month, above a Figma, Framer and Webflow pricing table

Designing for AI

Aside’s agent did the job. The friction sits around it.

An unsolicited audit of an AI browser’s first run, first task, and upgrade path, with 22 findings, a measured setup timeline, and five concept screens. No relationship with Aside.

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A concept screen from the Sudowrite audit, not Sudowrite’s live UI: a Generating 3 openings button in its busy state, and below it a prompt that reads Already writing 3 openings. Start another set as well? It uses more credits.

Prototyped in code

One character used 84% of Sudowrite’s free trial

An unsolicited audit of an AI writing app’s first session, with 21 findings, a credit-by-credit trial log, and a live coded prototype of the first fix. No relationship with Sudowrite.

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The Garage

Small working prototypes built in code, from interaction studies to AI micro-tools. This is where I practice.

PROTO_01Ten drives, two ways to say yesInteraction study PROTO_02Where do you set the line?AI micro-tool PROTO_03One field, every stateComponent demo PROTO_04Swipe to classifyMotion / prototype

About

I'm a product designer and b-boy based in Dallas. I taught myself design the same way I taught myself to break, by building the room I needed to practice in, right down to the training floor in my garage.

I care about the work and about the people I do it with. Right now I'm looking for a remote product team.

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Contact

Hiring for product design? Let's talk.

If you're hiring, or you want to talk shop, reach out at hello@michaelawilson.co.

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