Michael Matas (born March 23, 1986) is an American

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designer and

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artist. He has previously worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work. Matas co-founded Delicious Monster. In 2005 he went to work for Apple, where he designed user interfaces and artwork for the iPhone, the iPad and Mac OS X. Now, he's the co-founder of Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company just purchased by Facebook. Push Pop's first title is Al Gore's "Our Choice" in 2004 together with Wil Shipley playable on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. He later worked at

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and designed some of the major user interfaces in

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for Apple products. In addition, he has been listed as the co-inventor on patents Apple has filed. He later left Apple.

Career

Facebook

During his time at Facebook he was integral to the design of

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(along with Kimon Tsinteris). Facebook Paper's direct descendent was also created by Matas and Tsinteris, Facebook Instant Articles.

Nest

After Apple, Matas worked on the team that designed the Nest Learning Thermostat. He then founded Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company that created Al Gore's interactive book

Our Choice ''Our Choice'' is a 2009 book written by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and published by Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Originally titled ''The Path to Survival'', it follows '' An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Glob ...

. Matas presented at TED in 2011 on his work at Push Pop for Al Gore's interactive book Our Choice.

Lobe.ai

Matas founded Lobe.ai with Adam Menges, and Markus Beissinger. Lobe.ai is "creating an easy-to-use visual tool to help give people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the ability to invent with deep learning". It was announced that Lobe would be acquired by Microsoft in September 2018.

LoveFrom

In October 2021, Mike announced on Twitter that he had joined

LoveFrom LoveFrom is an American collective of designers and creatives founded in 2019 by Sir Jony Ive. The company is based in San Francisco, California and has a team of 50. LoveFrom has worked with a number of global brands including Apple Inc., Airb ...

, the design firm that Sir Jony Ive and

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started after their departure from

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References

External links

Personal Site
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