I help businesses to rapidly define, design & validate impactful digital products
that users love and exceed
their business goals.
digital products that users love and exceed their business goals.
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A one - man
Digital Product
Design powerhouse
with 18+ years of
experience
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I'm passionate about projects that make a positive social and environmental impact, support arts and culture, and promote conscious travel.
Let's connect and create a meaningful impact together!
UX/UI & Product Design Career Coaching
Flexible 1-on-1 sessions to help you bridge the gap between your bootcamp
(or current job) and your next UX/UI or Product Design opportunity.
Here’s how I can help
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Ever wondered if your product is on the right track? Or if a feature is really worth the effort? Want to know if your value proposition holds water? Well, say goodbye to months of uncertainty and hello to thrilling, high-energy Design Thinking and Human-Centred Design workshops!
- Pinpoint the right challenge
- Validate with real users
- Minimise risk
A UX Design Audit is a cost-effective way to get fast expert advice to pinpoint crucial flaws in your digital product. The audit will address obstacles and will give you a report with clear prioritized actionable advice.
- Screen by screen analysis
- Identify the root cause of pain points
- Report with actionable advice
Investing in UX/UI design will make sure your product has a seamless user experience and a beautiful intuative user interface. Leading to decreased risk, development time and customer support costs. Whilst improving KPI’s, customer engagement and retention.
- User research
- UX & UI Design
- Usability testing
A feedback call is a flexible cost effective way to engage with a senior UX professional to tackle a problem your product is currently facing. We will come up with an actionable plan to solve the problem and look at what steps to take next.
- Cost effective
- Instant product feedback
- Summary with quick wins
to contact me anytime
Recent Projects
Realty Recon
Bring an expert to your home inspection and buy with confidence
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Cocolony
Location based icebreaker that let's you meet new people in seconds
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TapTrip
Do good by rapidly discovering
new places you'll love
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WHY PEOPLE
ENJOY WORKING
WITH ME
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Flexible & cost effective
A flexible and cost-effective way to partner with an experienced and reliable Digital Product Designer and Innovation Facilitator.
My approach is no-nonsense, roll-up-your-sleeves, and get-things-done, infused with straightforward Dutch directness to avoid wasting time beating around the bush.
Fresh pair of expert eyes
As an independent digital product design and innovation consultant, I avoid internal politics and biases, ensuring an unbiased viewpoint that reveals untapped opportunities. With a dedicated focus on innovation and user-centric design.
Unique mix
of skills
Bringing over 18+ years of experience, along with strategic vision, empathy, creativity, adaptability, facilitation, and design skills, I offer businesses guidance to design or transform their products and services.
“Mike and I worked closely on developing a PoC for our Cultural Collections Digital Discovery Portal. The PoC successfully secured 6M in funding to further productionize the product. It was a challenging project with multiple stakeholders and complex outcomes, Working with Mike was a very positive experience. As part of the project, Mike led numerous Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design (HCD) Workshops, fostering consensus among stakeholders and catalyzing innovative product ideation.
Mike is very approachable and meshed seamlessly with the enterprise-wide team that came together for this special project.”
Allison Holland
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
“Mike was my UX mentor and helped me learn so much with his extensive knowledge. He navigated the design process with me while giving constructive feedback. His incredible eye for amazing design elevated my designs to a whole new level. He was very informative with my questions. It was so great to work with him. I would highly recommend him to anyone as a mentor or designer!”
Lauren Oh
California, USA
“We brought Mike onboard to help with the User Experience of the Ford Owner portal for Asia Pacific. He was great to work with and brought a lot of great ideas to the table – helping to ensure that we had a great foundation for a good revamp of the portal.”
Andrea Tan
Shanghai, China
“Mike was my mentor and an incredible force to learn from as I started dipping my toes into the world of UX & Design. He was a fantastic coach, providing actionable feedback and help whenever I needed it, and always challenging me to improve my work. His keen eye for function and design improved my own eye. Under Mike mentorship, I grew my product management and design skills exponentially. Anyone would be lucky to work with Mike, and I'd love the chance to work with him again in the future!”
Callan Berry
Seattle, USA
“I had the pleasure to work with Mike on the User Experience and User Interface of our investment platform. He was a great collaborator, thoughtful and inventive designer and complete professional. I would recommend him without reservation.”
Ashka Corelli
Cape Town, South Africa
“Mike was crucial to my success as a product designer. When we first met, Mike instantly honed in on my strengths and encouraged me to pursue my interests while circling back to great product design. He also set a high bar for me throughout the program which not only helped me churn out quality work but get a sense of what real world expectations might look like working under a senior designer. His extensive experience as a designer provided an invaluable frame of reference and seemingly infinite archive of advice that supported me when I faced blockers. Mike is also constantly improving his skills as a designer as well, truly exemplifying what it means to always have a beginner mindset. If you are a design student seeking mentorship or just looking for a stellar and experienced designer to create great experiences for your users, you HAVE to connect with Mike Dekker!”
Yordani Awono
New York, USA
“Mike facilitated an internal innovation workshop to help the team design a new product. Before the workshop, Mike took the time to meet with us on multiple occasions to understand our current circumstances and key business challenges. Mike’s facilitation style was engaging, interactive and helped the team to discover a new opportunity that we were previously unaware of. The entire team enjoyed working with Mike and learnt a lot from his extensive experience and knowledge in this area.”
Brendon Temple
Brisbane, Australia
Mike Dekker was a Mentor with both Thinkful and Bloc for over 7 years. He has been a strong support for students learning new skills in Design and has received exceptional student feedback from mentees who benefited from his knowledge and mentorship. Thinkful is an Chegg service that offers online education courses to adult learners looking to change their careers. Our Design program prepares individuals for careers in UX/UI Design. Mentorship is a core component of the support that Thinkful offers to our students, and Mike was consistently demonstrated excellence in mentorship. Throughout his time at Thinkful, Mike mentored hundreds of students through their course work on Design topics including Visual Design, UX/UI Design Fundamentals, HTML, CSS, and Visual Design tools.
We highly recommend Mike for his Design knowledge and compassionate approach to working with beginners.
Theresa Freet
New York, USA
Interested in working
together or just say hello?
Get in touch anytime!
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