Michael Lee

Michael Lee

Lead Product Designer in San Francisco, CA

About

Currently designing AI products at Knoetic with management responsibilities. I also teach product design at AAU.

Side Projects

Ongoing
SwiftUI experiments

I enjoy exploring ideas using SwiftUI. Here are some examples of things I built using SwiftUI.

Ongoing
Figma experiments
2017

A prototype I made in 2017, I wanted to prototype an AI concept that understood my level of proficiency for any given topic and helped guide me on what to learn next.

Projects

2022
Disco Audiences at Disco Network

A product I led design on called Disco Audiences which is an ad tool to help brands find relevant shoppers through the Disco network. I partnered closely with Dan Kaufman who was the lead PM on this project.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
New York, NY

I currently lead design on our AI and analytics products as well as managing a senior product designer.

2019 — Now
San Francisco, CA

I teach part time graduate level product design courses at AAU with a curriculum I built that focuses a lot on visual design and hi-fidelity prototyping.

2021 — 2022
San Francisco, CA

I led design on various products at Disco as well as explored experimental data visualization products.

2020 — 2021

I was the first full time design hire at Findem. I led design across a variety of products and sourced and hired our design team. I also managed a team of 3 other designers.

2018 — 2020
Senior Product Designer at Pivotal (acquired by VMware)
San Francisco, CA
2016 — 2018
San Francisco, CA

Education

2011 — 2013
Political Economy at UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Contact

Substack
Dribbble
Twitter