User:Henriok/Mike Matas

Mike Matas, Yosemite July 2007

Michael "Mike" Matas (born in Seattle, Washington, 23 March 1986) is an interface designer and icon artist, currently employed by Apple. He has previously worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work and co-founded Delicious Monster in 2004 together with Wil Shipley.

[edit] Personal life

As a teenager, Mike Matas lived in Seattle. He has two brothers, Sam Costigan and Jonathan Matas.

At the age of 14 Matas became involved with 911 Media Arts, a non-profit digital video resource company in Seattle, where he helped edit videos. Soon thereafter he started a small icons business, where he designed icons and logos for Mac OS X applications, such as Karelia Watson. From the age of 15, until the end of high school, he worked for The Omni Group, designing user interfaces. While there, he met Wil Shipley with whom he founded Delicious Monster in March 2004. Delicious Library was their first product, which generated $250,000 worth of sales in its first month. In July 2005 he left to work for Apple designing icons. He currently lives in San Francisco, California, after he moved from Palo Alto, California. He never attended college.

Joined The Omni Group at age 15
Co-founded Delicious Monster at age 18
Won first prize for Delicious Library in the category "'Best Mac OS X User Experience" and second place in the category "Best Product New to Mac OS X" at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 2005
Held a presentation regarding User Experience during WWDC'05, something that's unusual for someone that doesn't work for Apple
Joined Apple at age 19