Summary
Michael Auer is a Senior UI/UX Designer with 11 years of experience crafting interfaces for web, mobile, and games, currently shaping player experiences on Halo Infinite with 343 Industries. He has driven product design and strategy at Terminus—scaling the design team from one to four, building a customer-centric research process, and cutting $10,000/year by streamlining tooling and workflows. Comfortable across high-fidelity visuals, design systems, and prototyping, he also brings hands-on engineering experience from Unity and iOS projects early in his career. A BS in Informatics (3.9 GPA) underpins a pragmatic approach that blends user research, stakeholder communication, and technical implementation to ship polished, playable products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Informatics, 3.9 / 4, BS, Informatics, 3.9 / 4 at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
English