# Mike Northcutt > Senior UX Strategist | AI Product Designer | Research-Driven Product Thinking Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mikenorthcutt I help product teams turn insight into action—with clarity, confidence, and strategic alignment. By combining practiced UX strategy with emerging AI tools, I support leaders and teams throughout the product lifecycle—from discovery and validation to design, deployment, and management. I also see significant opportunities to modernize internal product operations through AI-assisted synthesis, decision support, collaboration, and alignment. I'm currently developing a case study and white paper on AI-enhanced knowledge management and feature prioritization tools—exploring how AI can improve product decision-making and workflows. I’m also evolving my approaches, tools, and methods through current coursework in AI Product Management (Maven) and AI-Driven Leadership (Stanford Online). • Human-centered design • Service design and systems thinking • AI/ML use case analysis • AI-assisted data synthesis and decision support • AI product design and prototyping • AI prompt design for research and product • B2B and SaaS UX across Clean Energy, HealthTech, Security, and EdTech • Workshop facilitation and stakeholder alignment • Executive storytelling and communication • End-to-end UX strategy and product definition ## Work Experience ### Senior UX Strategist & AI-Product Designer @ UXstrategy.io Jan 2025 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Developing an AI-enhanced feature-prioritization tool for B2B teams in the EdTech sector—improving decision-making by automating feature prioritization and streamlining product development roadmaps. Responsibilities include: • Creating custom ChatGPT API integrations for data synthesis and discovery • Assessing organizational data readiness for generative AI adoption • Planning and designing generative AI workflows to optimize feature validation • Developing and implementing a framework for defining, measuring, and tracking product KPIs • Integrating GPT-4 API to automate the clustering and synthesis of user feedback • Developing interactive prototypes using Figma, FigJam, and Bolt.new • Managing project plans in Linear to ensure timely execution and milestone tracking • Developing an automated Notion documentation pipeline for streamlined knowledge management • Producing stakeholder-ready communications to present product vision and recommendations ### Manager, UX / Service Design @ Terabase Energy Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States Terabase is a leader in the energy and sustainability technology industry with products that are transforming the way large-scale (utility-scale) solar projects are designed, built, and operated. Terabase Construct is a cloud-based platform that helps customers mitigate project risks, reduce project management overhead, enhance build quality, expedite construction, and improve communication with key stakeholders. As manager and senior ux designer I supported stakeholders, PM, developers, and front end designers by co-facilitating UX research and translating user needs and customer requirements into conceptual and detailed product design solutions—for the Construct cloud application and the related mobile field-inspection app. ### Product Designer @ Launch Consulting Group Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Supported the Human-Experience (HX) team at Launch Consulting with research discovery, workshop facilitation, data analysis, impact assessment, and strategic data-driven recommendations that help drive organizational excellence and digital transformation. Roles included UX roadmapping and project planning, internal process-playbook development, cross-teams collaboration, marketing support, design ideation and prototyping, and internal thought-leadership. Launch is a people-first, purpose- and data-driven consultancy that creates world-class platforms and experiences​ for major organizations in healthcare, high-tech/emergent tech, hospitality, government, retail, and energy sectors. ### User Experience Lead / UX Product Lead @ MKS2 Technologies Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States (remote) Owned the UX roadmap, research planning, qualitative data management and analysis, MVP / feature prioritization tools, UI design prototypes, and design-systems deliverables for a high-profile AI/Data/Security enterprise web application product. Led cross-team communications for UX to business leaders, PM, engineers, co-designers, and developers—presenting customer needs, recommendations, tradeoffs, and rationales behind proposed design solutions. ### Senior User Experience Designer / UX Researcher @ MKS2 Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States (remote) Acted as lead UX/UI designer, user researcher, and interaction designer for custom web applications that support faculty, programmatic research, and the development of graduate-level course materials at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)—contract position supporting NPS's Graduate Education Advancement Center (GEAC). ### UX Designer / Researcher / Instructional Media Developer @ Center for Educational Design, Development and Distribution at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States (remote) Designed interactive learning modules, websites, and custom web applications for graduate programs, distance-learning students, and NPS faculty. (Contract position through GDIT). ### Interaction Designer / Instructional Media Developer @ Center for Educational Design, Development and Distribution at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, Washington, United States (remote) ### Visual Designer / Instructional Media Developer @ Center for Educational Design, Development and Distribution at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 | Seattle, Washington, United States (remote) ### UX Researcher for Behavioral Health Mobile App @ Fred Hutch Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA Conducted user research for SmartQuit mobile app to aid users in smoking cessation. Led and co-led focus groups. Produced comprehensive UX findings report, recommendations, and design prototypes with emphasis on motivational UX solutions to increase user engagement and support successful behavior change. ### Media Producer (Audio) / Composer for Multimedia and Video / Musician @ Northcutt Productions, LLC Jan 1994 – Jan 2002 Provided custom soundtracks and music consulting services for award-winning film and video projects as a sub-contractor for Northcutt Productions (Patsy Northcutt, Producer). CLIENTS: Apple, IBM, AT&T, Siemens, UT Houston, NASA, and NFL publishing PROJECT AWARDS: Gold Cindy, Bronze Telly, New York Festivals Finalist ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) University of Washington ### B.S. Multimedia in Telecommunications, and Applied Computing, (Design Track) California State University, Monterey Bay ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikenorthcutt --- Source: https://flows.cv/mikenorthcutt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mikenorthcutt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23