Michael Haskell
Summary
Product Designer with 15+ years of experience across design, front-end engineering, and design leadership. Specializes in simplifying complex, data-dense platforms for enterprise users - from observability and monitoring to security analytics. Led the creation of a platform-wide design system adopted as the default for all customers. Background as a front-end engineer building component frameworks in React and D3 provides a rare ability to design with implementation constraints in mind. Holds a patent for dynamic query recommendation systems.
Experience
Staff Product Designer · Redwood City, CA
- Led design of Kanso, a platform-wide design system across 6 designers that became the default experience for all customers
- Designed the unified monitoring and alerting platform that replaced legacy tools and onboarded major enterprise customers
- Led design for SLO monitoring initiative from concept to launch, closing a competitive gap with Datadog, Splunk, and New Relic
- Led design for Advanced Analytics and Security Analytics platforms
- Mentored junior designer who was promoted to Senior Product Designer
- Promoted from Lead to Staff Product Designer
Senior Front-end Engineer · Mountain View, CA
- Built user interfaces with semantic HTML, Sass, and React.js
- Architect of interaction model, visual language, and branding elements
- Built custom CSS, D3, and React-based component frameworks
- Implemented early theme-switching capabilities and modern CSS features
Staff UX Designer; Senior Manager UX · Redwood Shores, CA
- Led design of LiveOps Engage, a multichannel agent desktop integrating communication and CRM for more effective end customer management
- Promoted from Senior UX Designer to Staff UX Designer, then to Senior Manager UX
- Led all user experience aspects including usability and interface design
- Won Technical Innovation Award 2013 for work on Engage
Senior UX Engineer · Palo Alto, CA
- Contributed to interaction specifications and standards guidelines for the vSphere client redesign
- Design lead for storage administration within vSphere client
- Designed updates for Capacity Planner, a data center hardware utilization and virtualization consolidation tool
Patents
US-12182111-B1
Techniques for recommending queries to search log information using user context and activities to provide intelligent recommendations and accelerate investigation.
Skills
Design: Design Systems, Systems Thinking, User Research, Information Architecture, Data Visualization, Enterprise UX, Accessibility
Tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Prototyping
Code: JavaScript (React, D3, Jest), HTML, CSS (Sass)
Education
Rutgers University
B.A. Psychology