Michael Ellis

Michael Ellis

Selected work

Platform leadership, design systems, and product strategy. These case studies come from consumer finance, but the problems they solve show up on any platform at scale.

Legacy products in several brands migrating block by block onto one shared platform while customers stay live throughout

Platform Modernization at Enterprise Scale

Design leadership for a 24-month, $25M platform modernization

Diagram labeled Check fraud 2008, Credit monitoring, Dark web alerts and Restoration, growing into an identity protection platform

Scaling Identity Protection from Product to Platform

Long-term design ownership across credit, identity, alerts, and enrollment

Tokens feeding components, which build products

Design Systems as Business Infrastructure

Governance, standards, accessibility, and front-end quality

Product stages from Discovery to Ship, with design moving earlier from decisions made to options still open

Building Design Influence Across Product Organizations

Growing UX from execution partner to strategic product function

Leading product
platforms at scale.

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Leading product
platforms at scale.

Home

Work

Writing

Contact me!
designernaut@gmail.com

Leading product
platforms at scale.

Home

Work

Writing

Contact me!
designernaut@gmail.com