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Michael Christie

UX consultant / Auckland, New Zealand

I shape digital experiences that work for people and for the business.

Strategic UX, design thinking, workshop facilitation, design systems and front-end development. I take projects from discovery through to Figma prototypes and shipped code.

Available for new UX projects. Send me a message or let’s have a chat.

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Selected work

18 projects

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi / 2026

Logging supervised driving hours

Learner drivers, their supervisors and NZTA staff, all in one prototype. A licensing service with billions of possible states, designed so it can be tested end to end.

Integrity Sales Group / 2026

Brochure site and operations dashboard

A marketing site for a New Zealand sales and merchandising agency, and an internal dashboard that turns field visits and sales data into something the team can act on.

Bizbo Labs / 2026

Workshop Pilot

An AI-facilitated design thinking tool that takes a vague business idea through 10 structured activities and produces a developer-ready build pack.

Bizbo / 2024 to now

Bizbo digital agency

My own consultancy's website, promoting UX optimisation, workshop facilitation, development and automation services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Personal project / 2025

Cucina recipe app

A recipe web app and iOS app built with AI prompts, taken from a quick demo to a production-ready product.

AA Insurance / 2018 to 2024

Ārahi design system

A connected suite of tools that lets teams collaborate and build digital products with consistency, scale and speed.

AA Insurance / 2018 to 2024

AA ecosystem app

A native iOS and Android app that brings insurance, membership benefits, rewards and roadside callouts into one place.

AA Insurance / 2018 to 2024

Insurance quote and buy journey

Using design thinking to rebuild the insurance quote journey, with a simpler question format and an uncluttered, mobile-first layout.

The Times

The Times online

A news app prototype from the early days of smartphones, alongside day-to-day design for the website and the online edition of LUXX magazine.

AA Insurance / 2018 to 2024

Insurance product page redesign

Making insurance less insurancy. Product pages redesigned through workshops and co-design, contributing to a 25% uplift in customers seeking a price.

Trade Depot / 2014 to 2017

Trade Depot e-commerce

Setting up and optimising the e-commerce platform for a large building supplies catalogue, with significant growth year on year.

BMW

BMW Launchpad

A launch training portal for the BMW i3, giving retail staff product documents, a technology viewer, competitor comparisons and a quiz to test what they had learned.

Countdown (Woolworths NZ) / 2017

Collection point UX

Making click and collect easier to choose: a pickup and delivery widget, collection point search and clearer time slots.

AA and AA Insurance / 2018 to 2024

MyAA portal and Smartfuel

Self-service for AA members and AA Insurance customers: membership, Smartfuel rewards, help and support, on web and mobile.

TES Education

Subject icons

A family of textured subject icons for the TES teachers' network, with guidelines for adding new subjects.

MINI

MINI Launchpad

The MINI version of the Launchpad training portal, giving retail staff product films and documents for every model.

Countdown (Woolworths NZ) / 2017

Navigation and taxonomy

Exploring ways to help shoppers find their items more quickly, through clearer categories and search.

I Hate Ironing

Driver app for a laundry service

An Android app for the drivers who collect and deliver laundry: their day's timeline, order details, invoicing and customer contact.