Mike Haynes

Senior Product Designer

Mike Haynes is a Senior Product Designer. Currently: reflective-warm.

Role

Senior Product Designer

Level

senior

Projects

Growth Plan

Defining and pitching the UX Engineering path at Jane. Scaling data-driven design (session replay) from Marketplace to broader Booking and beyond.

Strengths

Data-driven design
Shipped Practitioner Search and used session replay to guide improvements post-launch. Ricky's coaching note: ties design back to outcomes. Wants to scale this from Marketplace to Booking-wide and potentially SMS.
UX Engineering depth
Deep interest in front-end development — Marketplace team structure benefits his dev work (no deploy queues). Interested in bridging design and engineering roles at Jane. Action item: research pipeline to inform UX Engineering role definition.
Craft and empathy
Empathy is #1 interest. Qualitative research #2. Approaches design from a user perspective grounded in research signals.

Growth Areas

Design north stars and strategic articulation
Sept 2025 coaching: design north stars for SMS — how do we know we're achieving our goal? Needs to develop a habit of articulating long-term direction, not just execution.
UX Engineering path definition
Issue with design tickets affecting build metrics (burn down). Needs to navigate the dev pipeline and propose how designers can formally lean into a UX engineering role at Jane. Ricky noted this needs proposal framing.

Emotional Tenor

reflective-warm · stable-deepening

Challenges

Defining UX Engineering without a clear precedent at Jane
Design ticket burn-down impact on sprint metrics — navigating this with eng team
Scaling data analysis practice beyond Marketplace

Notes