01 — Case studies
BuilderBot
Block AI Design Fellowship
Powering up Block's agent orchestrator with design, support, & sales in mind.
BuilderBot
Block AI Design Fellowship
Powering up Block's agent orchestrator with design, support, & sales in mind.
BUILDERBOT
What's cookin'?
Describe a task...
ExploreDesignBuildFix
Repo + branch inferred from your task — change anything before it ships.
Social Sonar
Masters Capstone
Prototyping a "killer app" for Meta's Smart Glasses. Find your friends as easily as you find your airtags.
Social Sonar
Masters Capstone
Prototyping a "killer app" for Meta's Smart Glasses. Find your friends as easily as you find your airtags.
It’s real busy out here, wya?
hmmm hard to describe
just sonar to me it’ll be easier
NUVA Dashboard
Freelance
Web3 vaults for everyone — information richness without overload.
NUVA Dashboard
Freelance
Web3 vaults for everyone — information richness without overload.
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Net APY
3.3%
TVL
$604.32K
Current Price
$1.01
Holders
54
Price
$1.04671 +0.5%
02 — Studio
Encoding design taste into AI skills, creating an on-demand asset pipeline.
AI Design Encoding
Rebrand and marketing website redesign for the data-science company formerly known as RStudio.
PositVisit posit.co ↗
Promotion for an exhibit of Guatemalan contemporary art, 1960–present, across three Santa Barbara venues.
Guatemala from 33,000KM
Hand-crafted jewelry pieces built around negative space, modeled in 3D and cast in sterling silver.
“Subtraction” Jewelry
Long exposures shot without a tripod — landscapes and city lights smeared by an unsteady hand.
Unsteadiness
Communal radio design. Pins placed shape a soundscape unique to each common room & community center. Masters project, Grad Design Studio.
Campus Radio
03 — About
Michael Kwok
Michael fell for product design as a teenager — downloading ten to-do apps and marveling at how wide the solution space was for a seemingly simple problem.
Artistic and design inspirations include industrial designs from Dieter Rams and Tinker Hatfield; fashion brands A-COLD-WALL* and Issey Miyake; fine art works from Umberto Boccioni, Francis Bacon, and the Hudson River School; films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Denis Villeneuve.
Present
2025
2024–2025
2021–2024
2020
2014–2018