I design minimum viable SaaS products that deliver maximum impact

I work with early stage start-up founders, engineering and product teams to iterate, validate and ship faster to de-risk their product strategy.

I work with early stage start-up founders, engineering and product teams to iterate, validate and ship faster to de-risk their product strategy.

Focus Areas

Designing for early-stage impact often means bridging the gap between ambitious plans and ambiguous trade-offs.

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0-1 Design Strategy

Every product starts as a hypothesis. This work validates it fast. Rapid user testing, stakeholder interviews, competitive teardowns: these aren't optional phases, they're how you de-risk the bet before engineering spends a quarter building the wrong thing. Speed and rigor at the same time.

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Rapid User Testing
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Rapid User Testing
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Stakeholder Interviews
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Stakeholder Interviews
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Competitive Teardowns
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Competitive Teardowns
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MVP Validation
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MVP Validation
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Go-to-Market Planning
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Go-to-Market Planning

Agile UX Design

You can't iterate your way out of a bad assumption. Weekly testing cycles catch problems before they compound. Real-time feedback loops keep the team aligned on what's working and what isn't. This is how you ship without guessing.

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Real-Time Feedback Integration
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Real-Time Feedback Integration
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Design Validation Sprints
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Design Validation Sprints
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Heuristic Audits
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Heuristic Audits
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Journey Mapping
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Journey Mapping
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Iterative Testing
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Iterative Testing

Product Design

Validated concepts become shippable interfaces. Production-ready components and scalable design systems mean engineering doesn't rebuild your work once it hits their codebase. Clean handoff, clean code, no translation layer.

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Production-Ready Components
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Production-Ready Components
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Scalable Design Systems
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Scalable Design Systems
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Interaction Design
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Interaction Design
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Design-to-Dev Handoff
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Design-to-Dev Handoff
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Visual Consistency
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Visual Consistency

Design Engineering

Design files are a starting point, not a finish line. GitHub-deployed prototypes and Vercel-hosted MVPs with real databases mean your team inherits a running start, not a spec. This is design that ships.

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GitHub-Deployed Prototypes
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GitHub-Deployed Prototypes
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Vercel-Hosted MVPs
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Vercel-Hosted MVPs
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Database Integration
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Database Integration
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Real-Time Data Visualization
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Real-Time Data Visualization
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Production Scaffolding
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Production Scaffolding

IMPACT AT SCALE

Real teams, actual products, real traction and exits.

Real teams, Active users and real traction

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Years in Product Design
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Industries Designed For
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Industries Designed For
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Client Exits, 2 Unicorns
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Startup Teams Embedded

Real teams, actual products, real traction and exits.

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Products Shipped as Solo
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Designer-to-Eng Ratio
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Portfolio Capital Raised
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Teams Given Design Systems
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©2025 Michael Pons.

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Michael Pons logo in a bold, sans-serif font on a black background. Design and branding.
Michael Pons logo in a bold, sans-serif font on a black background. Design and branding.

©2025 Michael Pons.

Made with ❤️ in NYC