HEY!

My name is Michael Grgas and I’m a creative, detail-oriented UI/Visual Designer and UX Generalist.

I’m originally from New York, spent quite a few years living in Los Angeles, then hightailed it out of the urban jungle to the backwoods of Tennessee. I’m not half bad on a guitar and once upon a time, I played arenas opening for Ozzy Osbourne and lived to tell about it (barely).

I’m a big animal lover with two pups, Ellie Mae and J.D., and three cats, Tig, Iggy and Maxwell Smart (never a dull moment). I also love to get out on horseback for a trail ride with friends. And no, there is no vowel missing in my last name. You’ll also need to roll the “r”. Kinda like “rrrrrrrrrr”. You’ll get it eventually.

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  • Freelance
    UI/Visual Designer + UX Generalist
    Oct 2016 - Present
    Duck River, TN

    Zealot Networks
    Design Director
    July 2015 - Sept 2016
    Venice, CA

    Threshold Interactive
    Design Director / ACD / Senior AD
    Sept 2004 - July 2015
    Culver City, CA

    • Visual Design

    • UI/UX

    • Prototyping

    • Wireframing

    • User Experience Design

    • Web Design

    • Mobile App Design

    • Design Supervision

    • Presentation Design

    • Art Direction

    • Strategy & Concepting

    • Client Presentations

    • Figma

    • Adobe Creative Suite

    • Google Sketch

    • Keynote

    • MS Office

    • Google Slides

    • Google Certificate: Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes

    • Google Certificate: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

    • Google Certificate: UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate

    • AdAge

    • W3

    • Webby Awards

    • IAC

    • WOMMA

    • Promo Pro

    • IAB MIXX

    • OMMA

    • PR News Social Media Icon

  • BRANDS

    • Amazon Prime Video

    • Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

    • Brown-Forman

    • CMT

    • Constellation Brands

    • Fandango

    • Fox Television Studios

    • HBOMax

    • Intel

    • Lionsgate

    • LiveNation

    • Mars Petcare

    • Monster Energy

    • Nestlé

    • Nissin Foods

    • Opry Entertainment Group

    • Optimo Cigarillos

    • NBCSports

    • NFL

    • Outside Lands Music Festival

    • Philips

    • Red Bull

    • SPIN Magazine

    • Starz

    • Universal Music Group Nashville

    • Moet & Chandon

    • Nestlé Butterfinger

    • Muscle Milk

    • Hot Pockets

    • Progressive

    • Rachael Ray

    • Disney Interactive Studios

    • Poland Spring

    • Nestlé Sweetarts

    • Logisteed

    • Dell

    • Meyenberg Goat Milk

    • Nestlé Pure Life

    • Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum

    • San Diego Tourism

    • Black Box Wines

    • Arrowhead Spring Water

    • Microsoft

    • Great Clips

    • Harper Collins

    • Nashville Public Library Foundation

    • Wonderful Pistachios

    • Haworth

    • Dean’s Dips

    • Marie’s

    • Everybody’s Nuts Pistachios

    • Harrah’s

    • Dekra

    • Foresite Capital

    • Hornitos Tequila

    • Kinnate Biopharma

    • Genascence

    • Stanford IMA

    • Sodastream

    • SESAC

    • Sierra Nevada

    • Oakland Coffee

    • NXT

    • Sugar Foods Corporation

    • Solidigm

    • Mary’s Gone Crackers

    • DFNDR Armor

    • Charles Smith Wines

    • Enzymedica Group

    • 1924 Wines

    • SportAid

    • Bisbee Coffee Company

    • Nestea

    NON-PROFITS

    • ArcTN

    • Education Success Foundation

    • Gospel Music Association (GMA)

    • Hopetown United

    • Musicians On Call

    • Repreve

    • Second Harvest of TN

    • Timbuktu Renaissance

    • United4Good

    • Upper Room

    AGENCIES

    • Goodlab

    • High Wide & Handsome

    • Southern Made

    • Damage

    • R&R Partners

    • Storious

    • CIE

    • Muletown Digital

    • Wildebeest

    • Birdsong Creative