Mike Gibson
User Experience Design Lead at ZS
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Gibson is a User Experience Design Lead with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling product design teams and digital experiences across startups and enterprise consultancies. He combines product research, business strategy, and front-end interface development to prioritize solving real user problems over polished artifacts, having driven growth and validated product changes at companies like Home Chef and Kin Insurance. Known for introducing iterative, browser-focused design processes at agencies and leading cross-disciplinary collaboration, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, teaching web fundamentals, and shipping measurable outcomes. Based in Chicago, he brings a curious, contrarian mindset—challenging biases and soliciting diverse perspectives—and balances his work life with music obsession, dog parenting, and a lesser-known history as a childhood motorcycle racer.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Graphic Design at Columbia College Chicago
Github Skills (4)
react7
markdown3
css3
html2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lovehasnologic/under-the-covers
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Music related side project (and an excuse to dive in and wrap my head around React).
Contributions:132 commits, 1 PR, 65 pushes in 1 year 9 months
react
chrisjpowers/coding-stage
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:89 commits in 2 days
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