About Me
I am an Interaction Designer with a passion for innovative social, geo, and mobile projects. I love creating and building tools that inform, connect, and help people. I have been working on mobile and web projects for over a decade - from user interface / experience design, solution architecture, business requirements, to testing and deployment. Obsessed with autonomous agents and machine learning. I love making things. Slow food /city enthusiast. Bicyclist. I hate driving, but love cars. I love design. I like to lean on things. I am always working on my 10,000 hours. I don’t like whistling. Soccer fan. I love most music. Cable Cutter. Milwaukee MakerSpace Member. I have had roughly 100 stitches, and I have 8 lives left. I like the smell of gasoline... and skunk. I love going away, but I love coming home even more. I have spent more time in airports than I care to remember, and still counting. Not everybody loves Raymond. I love food, yet I could eat the same thing for months on end, unless it’s left-overs. I hate onions. I don’t like to eat food with my legs dangling. I love a girl named Danijela. More professional history here: LinkedIn and my Resume. Email me at: hello [at] michaelmassie [dot] com
Current Projects
- Creator / Designer of The Smart Alarm - An iOS alarm clock that wakes you up according to varying weather conditions.
- Creator / Designer / Co-Developer of Marco - an autonomous desktop device that displays a message based on its owners physical location.
Past Projects
- Founder / Designer of airrand.com - A location based To-Do list which alerts you of tasks based off your foursquare check-ins.
- Creator of QR Photo Art - an experimentation in interaction with artwork and its viewers.
- UI / UX Designer at ÜberTwitter - The worlds most popular twitter application for the Blackberry OS.
- Creator the TuppaChair - a concept chair designed for a competition by Tupperware.
- Creator of Foosmen.com - A customizable foosball men concept designed to look like real players on past and present teams.
- Founder of Study Hall in Milwaukee - A creative incubator for idea-ists, designers, and developers to get together to actually make things.
Press
- FOX TV interview on The Smart Alarm and iPhone apps.
- TechCrunch article on The Smart Alarm release.
- Comet Radio Interview talking about the upcoming release of ÜberTwitter.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article interview on my work and the application design field of business.
- Press release article on The Smart Alarm, and of airrand.
Presentations