# Michael Ishigaki

> Director of Product Design at Meta

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelishigaki

Solving real user needs in new, more delightful, and better ways through the novel, thoughtful, and inspired application of emerging technologies.

## Work Experience
### Director of Product Design, Wearables @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | Burlingame, CA
Leading a group of design teams centered around AI and Wearables.

### Director of Product Design, Wearables @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Burlingame, CA
Leading the Discovery team, defining the product direction for next-gen devices in Meta's wearables portfolio, including a heavy focus on AI and AR.

### Director of Product Design, AR Glasses @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, CA
Leading the Core UX design org for AR Glasses, including the System UX, Input & Interaction Model, Hardware UX, and Design System teams. Serving as design lead for Orion until moving on to future gen products.

### Product Design Manager, AR Glasses @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, CA
Leading design for AR Glasses Core UX.

### Product Designer, AR Glasses @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Burlingame, CA
Rapidly designed the foundational App Model for AR Glasses after years of non-convergence, unblocking hundreds of engineers.

### Design Manager, Google Hardware @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Leading design for the Pixel Watch, including product vision, the creation of a new design system for the round screen (helping to inspire the creation of company-wide Material You), physical and gestural inputs, haptics, OOBE, Companion App, and more.

### Design Manager, Google AR/VR @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
• Leading design and prototyping teams at Google, working on Augmented Reality and Computer Vision projects – including core use cases behind Google’s AR Glasses.

### Design Manager, Google AR/VR @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
• Leading the team publicly known as Daydream Labs through exploration of emerging technologies and novel applications.

### UX Designer / Engineer, Daydream @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
• Leading and managing team working on unannounced VR projects.
• Designer/prototyper working on Daydream Home and Settings

### UX Designer / Engineer, GSuite @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California
• Founding designer/prototyper of new Google Sites, with work directly resulting in funding of team.
• Founding designer/prototyper of other unannounced projects.

### Product Engineer @ Hattery
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
Acquired by Google

### Software Engineer @ Seminaire
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Emeryville, CA


## Education
### BA in with honors in Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mishigaki

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Last updated: 2026-04-13