Michael Wang

Michael Wang

Product Designer/Engineer in Oakland, he/him

Contact

Website
Bluesky
Twitter

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2020 — 2023
San Francisco

Working on Copilot, Codespaces, future of development, and other things. Learning lots. Design, development (RoR + React).

2019 — 2020
San Francisco

First design hire executing on the vision of autonomous personal finance. Built design system/component library, contributed to front end codebase.

2017 — 2019
San Francisco

Scaled a team from 4 to 30, focusing on public transit options. Core early contributor to 2018 redesign of the passenger app. Wrote hiring guidelines, contributed in growing Product Design team from 13 to 90+.

2015 — 2017
Cofounder at Teleport
New York

Founded Teleport to bring people together by allowing organizations, and regular people alike to send cars to friends, clients, and more. Product direction, developed early prototypes and user studies, branding materials, and led front-end web development.

2014 — 2015
New York

Designer on profile. I used all the tools at my disposal to make your Facebook profile slightly, slightly better. Product, interaction, visual, data, prototyping, code.

2013 — 2014
2010 — 2013

Side Projects

2022

Companion-in-a-box is a limited run of NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Each NFT is an ERC-721 token and is completely and utterly one-of-a-kind.

2020

This Figma plugin makes it easy to copy text from a static image with the magic of optical character recognition.

2017

Imagine a 2-car garage, in your pocket. Upshift removes all the friction from owning a car.

2016

Learn Tachyons by memorizing the class names with a simple spaced repetition tool.

Projects

2024

Artifacts turn conversations with Claude into a more creative and collaborative experience. With Artifacts, you have a dedicated window to instantly see, iterate, and build on the work you create with Claude.

2018

The Lyft app will now tell you the fastest way to get anywhere, even if it means taking public transit instead of a Lyft ride.

2018

The redesign launched in 2018 unlocked a huge conversion improvement and introduced new ways to use Lyft.

2015

We launched profile picture videos to allow people to express themselves in new ways on Facebook.

Features

2024

I was interviewed by Gergely Orosz for my role in building the Artifacts feature on claude.ai

2016

Teleport was covered by Fortune Magazine after we introduced the ability for small businesses to run a car service.

2015

Teleport was launched on Product Hunt and debuted at #1 for the day.

2013

Work for Nurun.com was featured in siteInspire Showcase in 2013.

Awards

2018

Lyft's 2018 redesign was awarded the "Innovation" award by Google's Material Design team.

2014
Creative Sandbox Featured Site from Google

In 2014, REVOLT.TV was featured on Google’s Creative Sandbox.

2014

IAC recognized Revolt.TV as one of its "Outstanding Website" of 2014.