I like turning complex ideas into delightful products.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity, evolving strategy, and large-scale transformation.

Longtime practitioner of digital product design, platform strategy, and team leadership. My work sits at the intersection of user-centered design, systems thinking, and the organizational mechanics required to build great products.

Experience leading UX across distributed product ecosystems, aligning Product and Engineering around cohesive experiences, and shaping the operating models that help teams move with clarity and confidence.

I’ve led multiple UX teams working across a variety of platform and application experiences, with a focus on building strong design culture, practical decision frameworks, and durable systems that scale.

A collaborative partner to product, engineering, and executive leaders. Comfortable presenting, facilitating, and translating ambiguous ideas into clear direction for teams and organizations.

This site reflects projects and initiatives I’ve had the privilege to work on with very talented teams. I care deeply about attribution. Everything here was built alongside thoughtful collaborators.

If you’d like to connect, feel free to email me: johnmanicke@gmail.com

Some of the companies I've had the pleasure of working with.