Mike Matas

Mike Matas
Matas, July 2007
Born (1986-03-23) March 23, 1986 (age 40)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Other nameMichael Matas
OccupationUser interface designer
EmployerLoveFrom

Michael Matas (born March 23, 1986) is an American user interface designer.

Matas has worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work. He later co-founded Delicious Monster with Wil Shipley.

In 2005, he joined Apple and designed interfaces for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPad.

After Apple, Matas worked on the team that designed the Nest Learning Thermostat.

Matas later co-founded Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company, with Kimon Tsinteris. Its first and only title was Al Gore's Our Choice in 2004. The company was acquired by Facebook in 2011, where Matas worked on the team that developed Facebook Paper and Facebook Instant Articles.

Matas founded Lobe.ai with Adam Menges, and Markus Beissinger. Lobe.ai was acquired by Microsoft in September 2018.

In October 2021, Matas announced he had joined LoveFrom, the design firm from Jony Ive and Marc Newson.

References

  1. ↑ "Delicious Monster co-founder joins Apple interface team". AppleInsider. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ am, Jay Savage | | July 21, 2005 at 10:30 am July 21, 2005 10:30. "Mike Matas going to Cupertino". Engadget. Retrieved November 6, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "The Father of the iPod Has Invented The Smartest, Coolest Thermostat You'll Ever See | Cult of Mac". Cult of Mac. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Al Gore's 'Our Choice' App Reinvents Books, Reading". The Huffington Post. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice". pushpoppress.com. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  6. ↑ Dredge, Stuart (August 2, 2011). "Facebook buys iOS book-app publisher Push Pop Press". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
  7. ↑ Metz, Cade. "How Facebook Turned Unloved 'Paper' Into 'Instant Articles'". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Lobe | Deep Learning Made Simple". lobe.ai. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft acquires Lobe to help bring AI development capability to everyone". Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ Matas, Mike (October 15, 2021). "Mike Matas on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved January 17, 2022.