I’m Mike Sokol, an AI-focused principal product designer with 20 years of experience.
I've led hands-on workshops on open source AI, Cursor, and ComfyUI, trained and open-sourced custom AI image LoRAs, and completed a month-long AI fellowship. I've also helped other designers ship iOS and Android production code to 100M+ MAU apps. See my AI experiments & posts here.
Most recently contracting at 
I made hare-raisingly complex fintech products feel easy as pie.
Note: This work was intentionally changed and does not necessarily reflect any released or unreleased work by Hopper. Illustrations by the amazing Thomas Fitzpatrick.
I turned the tables on shopping for furniture online by using AR.
I love learning new things and Augmented Reality was one of those things. Find out how the team and I took on the challenge, how I lost a bet, and how we released a product that saved time and increased conversion.
I helped families find care for their loved ones, and it felt good.
I collaborated with squads on top of funnel, end of funnel and almost everything in-between. I loved the mission, the friends I made, and the product we all worked so hard on.
