Mitch Millsaps
Software designer based in Denver, CO.
Side projects
Refining my canvas for work after 12 years of iteration.
Before grabbing my headlamp to toil in the design mines I set 3 priorities: flexibility, maintenance, efficiency. I asked myself these questions:
The conclusion I arrived to was, in essence, a feed. A timeline of work and some brief context - simple as that. Good design seems obvious in hindsight so hopefully that's a good sign.
With this format I can easily try out new compositions and techniques while showcasing the latest and greatest work. All without cumbersome overhead. Read in-depth or scroll away, whatever your heart desires.
I've been on a declutter spree for the better part of 2 years now and during the process thought of this which would help me keep track of and take action on things cluttering my house and my mind.
I've launched a new space on the interwebs to go on tirades about design. I'm not sure if it's a blog, a journal, or something else entirely but the writings will be entertaining and full of bizarre metaphors I can assure you that.
Today marks the release of briefed.design 2.0. I've done some major overhauls to the design language, branding, and especially SEO plus a few new handwritten briefs. More on the way soon!
An updated dashboard for Sticker Mule users to centralize shop management with a slew of upcoming features. Comes in light and dark mode.
Finally got buy-in after starting this in my spare time. We even posted it to ourTwitter with a video I made for it (hype version here).
We've been adding so many features so fast that it's been getting a bit hard to manage for us and users. It was a long process to get there but I'm happy with how it turned out and look forward to seeing it live.
Search is finally a feature on Sticker Mule after 15 years without it (literally). Thankfully we've compensated by making it extremely powerful. I got to design the full roadmap for it being totally site-wide for our custom products, tools, help center, stores and more.
Snippet of some fun illustrations I got to make for updates to Sticker Mule account settings. Enjoyed honing this style and pushing myself to make them beautiful and fun.
Sticker Mule has three separate earnings programs where customers can make money via referrals, commissions, and their online stores. They're all somewhat interconnected but with varying legal requirements that were causing unnecessary frustration.
The roadmap we established to alleviate this was two-fold: 1. Create a flexible, transparent UX that can react to permutations & 2. Consolidate all three programs under one umbrella to simplify all around. Step 1 is out now.
Quick idea I had for an onboarding process with custom dual-ltone icons.
Working on a design system for my own random ideas and figured the best way to test it out it to put it in use
Took a bit longer for us to get to this one out but our print anything tool is more powerful than ever. Added a bunch of new features integrating our other tools while polishing it to simplicity. I designed the original tool as well but it felt good to go back and clean up some mistakes.
Trace was one of the first things I worked on Sticker Mule but I'm now finally happy with its look and functionality. This is part of a larger effort to standardize our UX and style across tools to make them beautifully simple and easy to use. Also comes with some new features to integrate with our online design tool and help train the AI model.
I got to refresh the look and UX of our image upscaling tool as part of larger effort to standardize UX across our tools. Really happy with how much I was able to simplify with this one from the first iteration.
An unused concept for the Stimulus home page but it was fun to play around with the style
