Michael Trilford
Founder Product Designer & Engineer at Redactd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Trilford is a founder, product designer and engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a career in digital product and design systems stretching back to 2006. Based in Melbourne, he builds practical, composable UI systems—creating Muibook, a native Web Components design system, and founder tools like Guru Guides and Guru Outcomes that marry Figma workflows with production code. At Airwallex and MYOB he led design system strategy, documentation and cross-discipline onboarding, driving consistency between Figma kits and live component libraries. Michael ships end-to-end: he designs, codes frontend implementations, and integrates AI tooling and component playgrounds to shorten feedback loops between designers and engineers. His work shows a systems mindset applied to product outcomes—favoring reusable, performant web components and in-browser composition that bridge prototype and production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of design Graphic Design, Bachelor of design Graphic Design at Massey University - Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa
Github Skills (60)
testing9
styles8
angular8
react8
vue8
styled-components8
hierarchical-data8
css8
webpack8
javascript8
react-native8
masonry7
svelte7
design-tokens7
react-component7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michaeltrilford/Formalize-css
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
michaeltrilford/michaeltrilford.github.io
Jun 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:134 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 8 years 6 months
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