About Mike Newman: UX design author and leader

    Senior experience design leader, and author of Design Orchestrator, Sweet Spot UX and Kickstart Your UX Career.

    Background

    Mike Newman is a senior experience design leader with over twenty years of experience across digital product design, from the early web through to today’s AI-assisted landscape. He has worked with teams across agencies, enterprises, and client-side organisations to design products and services that are clearer, more usable, and built around real human needs.

    He is known for a practical, collaborative approach that puts communication at the centre of design, helping teams align, make better decisions, and move forward with clarity.

    He writes from inside the transition, sharing grounded, real-world perspectives to help designers adapt, think more strategically, and do their best work in a rapidly changing landscape.

    How the experience connects to the books

    Design Orchestrator

    A practical book on what happens to UX and product design work as AI takes over more of the production, and where designers create value next.

    Draws on: AI and the changing role of UX and product designers

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    Sweet Spot UX Second edition

    An updated edition of the Amazon bestselling original, for UX and product designers who want to communicate their work clearly and get it understood, supported, and used.

    Draws on: UX communication, stakeholder influence and getting design work understood

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