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Milan M.

Product/UI Designer and Full-Stack Developer

EXPERIENCE

UniversalResume.app

May 2026 – Present | Indie Maker

Based on my HTML template of the same name, made in 2019, which has over 1700 GitHub stars.

Always-free résumé (CV) website and PDF from plain text, grounded in the best resume-writing guides and the best designs.

Elixir | Phoenix | Ash | Tailwind CSS | Figma | Claude

Emergent Mind

Feb 2023 – Apr 2026 | Product & Front-End Designer

AI research assistant for arXiv with 1M+ monthly visitors. My second product with founder Matt Mazur – a continuous collaboration since Preceden in 2020.

  • › As a product designer, I worked with Matt to create Emergent Mind
  • › Designed with Figma and implemented with Tailwind CSS more than 80% of the UI
Typography | Figma | Tailwind CSS | Rails

Preceden

Nov 2020 – Feb 2023 | Product & Front-End Designer

One of the most popular timeline makers. It is used by hundreds of thousands of people.

  • › As a product designer, I worked with Matt to create a new version of Preceden
  • › Designed with Figma and implemented with Tailwind CSS more than 80% of the UI
    • • Major redesign sustained 20%+ yearly revenue growth in a mature SaaS
Data Visualization UI | Figma | Tailwind CSS | Rails

Freelance

2017 – 2020 | Front-End Designer

  • › Web shop, institution website, dashboard, startup site
Tailwind CSS | Figma

WordPress Theme Shop

2013 – 2017 | WordPress Developer

WordPress | PHP | Bootstrap CSS

PORTFOLIO

alphaXiv Concept

My inspiration partially comes from the idea of a “dawn,” symbolizing a new era for research communities and paper reading.

The typeface there has character and works well at both large and small sizes, making it legible and suitable for chats and forums (that website was about communities).

Emergent Mind Jobs

Imagined as the second step of the job search process; the first step is creating a resume with Universal Resume.

Emergent Mind Pages 1

Paper page, Welcome dialog, Generate Video dialog, Add to List dropdown picker, tweets section, video section.

And More

OTHER NOTES

Guiding Principles

  • › Dieter Rams' 10 Principles of Good Design:
    • • innovative • makes a product useful • makes a product understandable • unobtrusive • aesthetic • honest
    • • long-lasting • thorough down to the last detail • environmentally-friendly • as little design as possible

Other Interests

Mythology | Fabrication | Biology