About.

Driven by a need to create.

I'm a UX Engineer with entrepreneurial roots. I've turned my passion for creating into a journey of designing and building full-cycle digital products.

Cartoon illustration of Michael Downing
Cartoon illustration of Michael Downing

Designer

  • ux design
  • prototyping
  • ui design
  • user flow
  • interaction design
Design and coding illustration

Developer

  • java + kotlin
  • APIs + json
  • html + css
  • react.js
  • relational databases

Random

I play blues & jazz piano - and you can too.  Toggle blues mode and hold down any note to hear a player piano style blues riff. Toggle jazz mode and click any note to play a maj7 chord variation. This piano app was built using React & the tone.js library.