Designer, Frontend Developer & Mentor

I design and code beautifully simple things, and I love what I do.

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Hi, I’m Matt. Nice to meet you.

Since beginning my journey as a freelance designer over 11 years ago, I've done remote work for agencies, consulted for startups, and collaborated with talented people to create digital products for both business and consumer use. I'm quietly confident, naturally curious, and perpetually working on improving my chops one design problem at a time.

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Designer

I value simple content structure, clean design patterns, and thoughtful interactions.

Things I enjoy designing:

UX, UI, Web, Apps, Logos

Design Tools:

Affinity Designer Figma Font Awesome Pen & Paper Sketch Webflow

Frontend Developer

Frontend Developer

I like to code things from scratch, and enjoy bringing ideas to life in the browser.

Languages I speak:

HTML, Pug, Slim, CSS, Sass, Git

Dev Tools:

Atom Bitbucket Bootstrap Bulma Codekit Github Surge Terminal Vercel

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Mentor

I genuinely care about people, and love helping fellow designers work on their craft.

Experiences I draw from:

UX/UI, Product design, Freelancing

Mentor Stats:

7 years experience 26 short courses 65 bootcamps 200+ students 2,350+ mentor sessions 60+ group critiques 16,500+ comments

My Recent Work

Here are a few past design projects I've worked on. Want to see more? Email me.

High-end, custom residential renovaters serving Fraser Valley homeowners.

wfdesignbuild

Accounting and tax services characterized by quality, reliability and trust.

burkettandco

Blockchain pioneers bringing transparency, trust, and security to supply.

chronicled

Business savvy tech experts helping forward thinking companies get things done.

glcsolutions

Vancouver's tower crane rental service and support leader since 1974.

coupal

Results-oriented, responsive and flexible full service civil engineering firm.

wedlerengineering

I’m proud to have collaborated with some awesome companies:

britewebgoodkindredstampdomain7designlabchronicledbldrsserpmetrics

My Startup Projects

I’m a bit of a digital product junky. Over the years, I’ve used hundreds of web and mobile apps in different industries and verticals. Eventually, I decided that it would be a fun challenge to try designing and building my own.

basin

A powerful, easy-to-configure form backend for designers and developers.

usebasin.com
shipable

Short, focused design and growth collabs for startup tech founders.

shipable.io
junkbox

Intelligent API solution for automatic spam protection without the manual work.

in development
postpal

A people-friendly content publishing platform that integrates with any tech stack.

in development
kybercore

Next level plug and play chassis systems for custom DIY lightsaber builds.

in development
houston

Simple feedback and engagement tools that help teams ship winning products.

in development
nanobrand

Human-crafted logos and brand assets for startups and indie hacker projects.

in development
dovetail

A space and member management solution for coworking communities.

in development
userforge

A collaborative tool for creating simple, effective user personas.

in development

Interested in collaborating with me?

I’m always open to discussing product design work or partnership opportunities.

Testimonials

People I’ve worked with have said some nice things...

alvin

“Matt's a clear communicator with the tenacity and confidence to really dig in to tricky design scenarios and the collaborative friction that's needed to produce excellent work.”

Alvin Engler

CEO, West Third Enterprises, Inc.

pascal

“Matt was a real pleasure to work with and we look forward to working with him again. He’s definitely the kind of designer you can trust with a project from start to finish.”

Pascal Tremblay

Creative Lead, Good Kind

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Interested in working together? We should queue up a time to chat. I’ll buy the coffee.

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Originally Developed By Matt,
Re-Developed By Aviad Sofer, October 2022