From Apple to agentic AI. The work has always been the same.

Photography of Matthew Holloway, he has a gray beard and short gray hair, wearing a black top, multiple bracelets on his wrist, with a dark background.

I've spent my career using design to deliver impact by solving the problems that matter the most. Whether its at the founding stages or at enterprise scale, in consumer products or complex B2B systems, in organizations I built from scratch and ones I was brought in to transform I have a track record of delivering impact.

I've co-founded six companies, three of them AI-driven, and held leadership roles at Apple, Netscape, SAP, WebMD, Shutterfly, and most recently SnapLogic. The work has always been the same: understanding what customers actually need, building the conditions to serve those needs well, and demonstrating in boardrooms, with skeptical CEOs, through measurable outcomes, that design is a business driver, not a finishing touch.

Over the last decade that work has centered on AI. I've been building AI products since before most organizations knew they needed them, and I understand both what the technology can do and what it costs people when it's deployed without judgment.

Many of the designers I've mentored now lead teams at Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, SAP, Nike, and JPMorgan Chase. I've taught at Stanford, the Royal College of Art, and Ohio State. I write and speak on design leadership, AI, and the evolving role of design in modern enterprises.

Design is not decoration. It is the practice of making good decisions about what to build, for whom, and why, and having the judgment to stand behind those decisions when it matters.

That is what I do.


INNOVATION & PRODUCT

SnapLogic: Generative AI product suite

Led design on every AI product from concept to market. AgentCreator and PromptComposer generated $5M in bookings in their first year, the fastest product growth in company history. SLIM generated $3M in revenue in its first two quarters.

Shutterfly: Universal Creation Tool

Replaced 23 product-specific creation tools with one adaptive platform. The new home décor line generated $6M in its first quarter, and holiday card revenue grew $7M.


ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

SAP: Design Services Team

Recruited by co-founder Hasso Plattner to embed customer-centricity across SAP. Built a 35-person global team that grew to more than 100 dotted-line contributors in two years. Redesigns of ByDesign and the HCM suite raised customer satisfaction 17% and bookings 4%. Worked with Plattner and David Kelley to help shape the Stanford d.school.

SnapLogic: Founding design organization

Built the design team from scratch and moved design from an afterthought to a function with structural authority. Design took ownership of the front-end layer, reducing annual spend by $1.34M and cutting time to ship from months to weeks.


OPERATING MODELS

SnapLogic: AI-native teams

Transformed the UX and Learning & Enablement teams to be AI-native. An agent for certification evaluations saves $120K per year. Design engineers use Claude Code and Figma MCP to generate production-level code, eliminating the handoff with engineering.

Xinova: Product and delivery capability

Established the product management, UX design, and user research functions. Scaled a distributed development organization to more than 30 people in twelve months. Standardized workflows and prototyping cut innovation cycles by 60%.


ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Zeitworks: Co-founder, AI process intelligence

Co-founded the company and co-led a $4M seed round. The first four-week pilot identified $28M in improvement opportunities with zero operational disruption. Acquired by Augment.io in 2021.

Atlas: Co-founder, AI-powered personal search

Co-founded in 2013 with funding from Bill Gates. Built a prompting interface before prompting existed, protected by design patents. Led the pivot from consumer to enterprise. Microsoft acquired the IP and the team joined Xinova.

Xinova: Innovation marketplace relaunch

Redesigned and relaunched a four-sided marketplace connecting talent, technology, capital, and market. Within six months membership grew 230% and RFI-to-submission conversion rose 42%. Spun out two ventures with private equity funding, including SousZen with PepsiCo.

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