Solving. Designing.
Inspiring.
Seeing ahead of the curve and staying ahead are quite different skills. I keep my team in front of the game.
Companies hire me to grow their design and innovation capabilities. I bring a distinctive product design leadership style that incorporates open collaborative thinking across diverse teams and builds on existing strengths. My approach boosts enthusiasm, purpose, and focus.
Over the past few decades, I’ve established and driven product strategies through ideation, research, prototyping, wireframing, testing, patentable interaction design, award-winning high-fidelity UI design, and, more recently, artificial intelligence tools. I leverage my broad background in motion graphics, web and mobile app development, branding, graphic design, photography, and filmmaking to enrich the overall product experience and story.
I’ve worked with brands such as HP, SAP, UPS, Samsung, LendingClub, Holiday Inn, Credit Sesame, Transitions, Healthline, Geocaching, Crystal Dynamics, and various startups.
Occasionally, I’m asked to speak at events about future trends.
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.
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
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“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
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“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