Mike Leotta

Lead Product Designer & Manager

I'm Mike, a lead product designer in New York City.
I've led design on a broad range of products over the past fifteen years at Google, Citizen, Lyft, and Fi.
Fi Smart Dog Collar
Fi

Fi

Smart Dog Collar

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Citizen Network
Citizen

Citizen

Citizen App

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Area 120 @ Google
Area 120

Area 120

Shoelace

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Rider Platform @ Lyft
Lyft

Lyft

Rider Platform

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Google VR - Virtual Reality Builder
Google

VR/AR

Tour Creator

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Google Expeditions - Search & Discovery
Google

Expeditions

Search & Discovery

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Google Drive - Material Design
Google

Drive

Material Design

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Google Drive - Team Drives
Google

Drive

Team Drives

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Fi

Head of Product Design

Fi  ∙  Sep 2023 – Current

Leveling up the mobile and ecom experiences.

Google

Lead Product Designer

Google  ∙  May 2022 – Jul 2023

Google PhotosLead Designer on Organization & Discovery

Lyft

Staff Product Designer

Lyft  ∙  Jun 2021 – Jan 2022

Led design on Rider Platform, Search, and Journey Assistant experiences.

Citizen

Lead Product Designer / Head Of Design

Citizen  ∙  Sep 2019 – Mar 2021

Joined Citizen as a Lead Product Designer; became Head of Design in 2020, managing a four person design team.

Google

Senior & Lead Product Designer

Google  ∙  Jul 2011 – Sep 2019

Designed consumer, enterprise, and education products used by millions of international users on iOS, Android, and the Web. Product work includes:

Google

Web Designer & Developer

Google  ∙  Jul 2008 – Jul 2011

Designed, developed, and maintained web properties in 40+ languages on global Google.com domains.

  • Google Chrome – Design Lead for download UI/UX and web content
  • Gmail – Design Lead for web content and sign up/login funnels
Google

Search Quality Strategist

Google  ∙  Jan 2007 – Jul 2008

Designed and contributed to processes which improve quality and user experience of Google Search products.

Education

B.S., Information Management & Technology

B.S., Marketing Management

Syracuse University  ∙  2004 – 2006

Skill Summary

Product Design

  • Interaction Design
  • UI Design
  • Prototyping
  • Visual Design
  • Motion Design
  • Information Architecture
  • User Research

Platforms & Tech

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Web/Mobile Web
  • VR/AR

Software

  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • ProtoPie
  • Principle

Technical

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Dart
  • Flutter

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