Mike Harmala
User Experience Design Portfolio

My name is Mike Harmala and I'm an aspiring User Experience Designer, currently an Information Architect in New York City. I recently completed my master's degree in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan School of Information. I enjoy well-designed products, which is why I want to help make more of them exist. You may want to browse my projects and look at my résumé.

But what is User Experience Design?

Let me try to explain. User Experience Design incorporates a number of researched and practiced concepts (such as information architecture or interaction design) that are used by professionals to make items and services we use better, by talking to the people that use them. In this case, by "items and services", I mostly mean digital and computer-based technology (websites, mobile phones, etc.). User experience design is an emerging field that emphasizes the importance of designing things for the humans that use them.