Hi, I’m Thom. I’m a product design leader heading up design for a fintech in San Francisco.
I establish design direction for new digital products that solve customer problems and empower teams to adopt and drive the vision forward.
I come from a lineage of inventors, teachers, photographers, and writers – integrating brand and story into product experiences is deeply rooted in my DNA.
For the past few decades, I’ve helped organizations create new product strategies through scalable UX, prototyping, wireframing, testing, research, and patentable UI/interaction design. I go further by mixing in my background with motion, Web & mobile app development, branding, graphic design, photography, and filmmaking to enhance the product experience.
Brands I’ve worked with include: SAP, CNN, UPS, HP, Citrix, Samsung, Concur, Holiday Inn, Transitions Lenses, Geocaching, Crystal Dynamics, Healthline, LendingClub, and various startups.
Sometimes you’ll find me speaking to an audience about future UX trends.
When not I’m not designing, I spend time dabbling in Web3, XR, and AI, and capturing photographs of my travels and life around me.
Design portfolio available upon request.
Here’s what colleagues say…
“Thom Milkovic is a generational talent. I probably cannot speak higher of anyone else I have worked with in my professional career than Thom. His profile will show an experienced design leader, but he much more than that. He has the innate ability to articulate a vision using many different methods – prototypes, schematics, videos, photography and openly mentors on his approach. The rarest quality I have seen in Thom is him being a true visionary, thinking ahead 5-10 years into the future and further being able to eloquently visualize and tell the story.”
– Steve Lemanski, Product Leader at Silicon Valley Bank
“Thom does do it all – and very well… If you work with Thom, you’ll find him to be a careful listener, an amazing translator, and an expert creative with an eye to closing the sale. He’ll expand the thinking about your own ideas and add value to them.”
– Mike Wittenstein, Global Speaker, Designer, Consultant, Facilitator
“Thom has an amazing presence and focus on design excellence that I continually admire. His processes are deliberate and his skills with design, user experiences, and workflow are amazing. I consider Thom to be the best `Software UX Designer` that I have ever meet… and would welcome future opportunities to work with him.”
– Thomas Burleson, Team Lead at Google
“Thom has actively and constructively participated in the dialogue that has helped us to define our path forward and his visual designs have enabled us to communicate that path to our entire company.”
– Bryan Roth, Co-Founder of Geocaching
“He is a profound visual thinker and business minded creator. His experience and insight regarding how to succinctly and effectively communicate to achieve targeted business/marketing goals make Thom uniquely qualified to design and communicate a business vision, plan, approach or strategy. He is stellar in his field, and a very fun person with whom to interact!”
– H. Christian Hölljes, Professor of Innovation + Design at NCSU
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