Micaela Blank – UI/UX Designer

Micaela Blank is a UI/UX Designer at SSW with a background in Computer Science and Media Arts. She designs developer tools and enterprise products, with a focus on making complex systems feel simple—while keeping the depth and flexibility users need.

She works closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to shape solutions from early scoping through to delivery. Her recent work includes leading user research, UX audits, and design spec reviews, helping teams align early and make confident product decisions grounded in real user needs.

Micaela has worked across a range of complex systems, including enterprise audit workflows, AI-powered tools, and end-to-end CRM platforms. This includes designing high-volume, role-based systems, improving broker and underwriting workflows for insurance platforms, and shaping internal audit and reporting experiences. She has also designed a guided showroom consultation experience for a bespoke joinery business that streamlined selections, pricing, and approvals into a single, cohesive workflow.

She is particularly interested in designing for real-world behaviour - where users are busy, systems are complex, and clarity matters most. Her approach combines structured thinking with curiosity, translating business logic into intuitive interfaces and helping teams turn complexity into something practical, efficient, and easy to use.

Areas she works across

• AI Product Design – Designing AI-powered experiences, human-in-the-loop workflows, prompt interactions, and making intelligent systems usable and transparent
• Product & System Thinking – Product scoping, design spec reviews, and aligning design with engineering constraints
• User Research & Discovery – User interviews, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and workshops
• UI/UX Design – Complex workflows, dashboards, role-based systems, wireframes, and prototyping
• Design Systems & Developer Collaboration – Figma, design tokens, and close collaboration with development teams
• Creative Technology – Interactive visuals, motion, and creative coding

Outside of work, you’ll usually find her painting, swimming, or testing a new audio-reactive shader. She’s inspired by colour theory, real-life quirks, and the occasional weird maths problem.