KONIGI

Work with me

I'm Michael Angeles. I design and build products, working in Claude Code. I bring deep UX experience and design craft to engagements, working directly with founders and product teams to turn early ideas into shipped products.

I pass on advisory-only work. If nothing ships, I'm the wrong hire.

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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.
Embedded · Ongoing

Fractional design + build

Price
  • Monthly retainer: $14,000/mo
  • Two or three days a week
  • Three-month minimum

One slot at a time.

I join your product team part-time and do the job: design the work, then build and ship it. This is what I do for Calx Analytics now.

For
Product teams that need senior design and shipped code, and aren't ready to hire both.
What happens
I embed with your team two or three days a week and take design problems from brief to production. I design the interfaces and write the front-end code that ships them, working in your codebase and your process.
You leave with
Shipped product every month, and a design practice your team keeps when I leave.
For design teams · One to two days

Team workshop

Price
  • $7,500 per workshop day
  • One day, teams up to eight
  • Two days, teams of nine plus

Remote or on-site; travel billed at cost.

A hands-on workshop for design teams adopting Claude Code, built from the five courses on this site and run against your product.

For
Design teams whose company has said yes to Claude Code and now has to mean it.
What happens
Every designer gets a working Claude Code setup, then we work the course material as exercises on your own product, cut from 38 modules to what your team needs. Managers get a session on what to expect and what to measure.
You leave with
Every designer shipping from a working setup, shared conventions for briefs and prompts, and the course material to keep going on their own.
One-to-one · Half day or hourly

Pair session

Price
  • Half day, four hours: $1,200
  • Hourly: $350/hr

Remote, over a shared screen. Most people book the half day.

A working session in Claude Code, on your real project. We make actual progress on it together, and you keep the working habits.

For
Designers who want to ship their own work, and solo founders building without a team.
What happens
We meet over a shared screen with Claude Code open on your actual project, pointed at whatever you most want to move. I explain each decision as I make it, from how I brief the model to why I throw a draft away.
You leave with
Working code committed to your repo, a CLAUDE.md and workflow set up for your project, and a recording of the session.
Track record

I've spent fifteen years doing this job inside a product company.

Balsamiq for fifteen years as the product designer. Co-author of Wireframing for Everyone from A Book Apart. Co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute. Along the way, Google, Calx Analytics, Bell Labs, Sling, Traction, Sapient, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

5 free courses on this site
38 modules, the workshop's source
8 products
designed and built with Claude Code
Currently fractional at Calx Analytics
the retainer, running today
Start

Start a conversation.

Tell me what you're building, which of the three shapes fits, what a good outcome looks like, and when you'd want to start. That's enough for me to reply with a time, or a straight no if I'm not the right person for it.

Reach out to work with me

I reply to every note within two business days.