Klarita
A design brief tool for the thinking you do before you build. It walks you through four phases (Explore, Define, Design, Test) with AI-guided activities that produce artifacts you can refine and hand off.
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I'm Michael Angeles. I was the product designer at Balsamiq for 15 years and co-wrote Wireframing for Everyone. Now I design and build shipping products and write about the craft.
I take on a few client engagements a year. Work with me
- Balsamiq
- Product designer for 15 years.
- Wireframing for Everyone
- Co-author. A Book Apart, 2023.
- Prior work
- Google, Bell Labs, Sapient, and the Met.
- Now shipping
- Unicron, Klarita, and Motivist.
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From capture to inference
Why a vault of linked markdown notes and an enterprise knowledge graph are the same shape. And why I built Unicron, a Mac app that turns notes into action items and pushes them through to done.
July 8, 2026
I built a career coach out of markdown files
A Claude Code-powered second brain that functions as a persistent life and career coach, and tells you what you're avoiding.
How to get your site cited by AI: A GEO field guide
AEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) require different signals than traditional SEO. Here's what I actually did to get konigi.com visible to AI systems and what the limits of that work are.
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Unicron
A second-brain front end for Mac that turns a plain-markdown note vault into a daily briefing powered by Claude. Generates daily briefs, turns meeting transcripts into clean notes, rolls up open tasks, and maps how notes connect.
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Prototyping from a Design Idea
For designers who can shape a screen in Figma but have never turned one into something a person can actually click. Carry a real design all the way to a working, shareable prototype.
Start the courseZero to Design Engineer
For UX and product designers who want to write real TypeScript, ship React and Vue components, and contribute confidently to a shared engineering repository.
Start the course Tools I Use
Astro
Web framework for building fast, content-focused websites with a flexible component model that works with React, Vue, Svelte, or plain HTML. A solid pick for portfolios, blogs, and marketing sites where performance and SEO matter more than heavy client-side interactivity.
↗ Claude CodeTerminal-first AI pair programmer. My primary building environment.
↗ RTK (Rust Token Killer)A CLI proxy that filters and compresses the output of common dev commands before it reaches an AI coding assistant, cutting LLM token use by 60-90%.
↗ UX Sentiment ResearchClaude skill that pulls UX sentiment and friction patterns for any product and turns them into interview-ready talking points. Good for design interview prep and competitive analysis.
↗ Vibe Security SkillAn agent skill that audits AI-generated code for common security holes coding assistants introduce, like hardcoded secrets, missing row-level security, and tokens in localStorage. Loads only the checks that fit your stack.
↗ Latest Resources View all →
RTK (Rust Token Killer)
A CLI proxy that filters and compresses the output of common dev commands before it reaches an AI coding assistant, cutting LLM token use by 60-90%.
↗ TauriFramework for building small, fast, secure cross-platform apps with any web frontend and a Rust backend. Targets Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS from one codebase.
↗ UnicronMac-only personal knowledge management app that uses Claude as its engine to organize a plain-markdown vault. Includes daily briefs, task management, a note library, and a graph view.
↗ UI Skills for Design EngineersA curated directory of UI skills for design engineers covering accessibility, motion, and frontend craft, with copy-ready install commands.
↗ html.to.designConverts any website into fully editable Figma designs without building each element from scratch.
↗ ImpeccableThe design language that makes your AI harness better at design.
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Personal Michael Bierut
Pentagram / Clear Systems
Personal mcyoungSystems Developer & Writer
Discovery InteractionsInterface Motion Showcase
Personal Allan GrinshteinDesigner / LayerVault & Overflow
Discovery Are.naAlgorithm-Free Mind Mapping
Discovery It's Nice ThatContemporary Creative Broadcast