Turn complex products and companies into simple, high-performing experiences and brands.
Miner Thought has 20+ years of experience helping businesses large and small with design and creative services.
Located in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada — our experience, clients and vision is global.
Product & Experience Design Services
Most products don’t fail because of bad ideas—they fail because they’re hard to use.
We help teams fix that. With over two decades of experience across product design, UX research, and creative leadership, I work at the intersection of business goals and user needs—turning complexity into clarity.
UX & Product Audits
Identify friction, confusion, and missed opportunities—then provide a clear plan to fix them.
Product & Platform Design
Design intuitive, scalable SaaS products, dashboards, and digital systems.
UX Research & Strategy
User insights, journey mapping, and data-driven decision-making.
Design Systems & Scaling
Create structure and consistency so your product and team can grow efficiently.
Brand Design & Advertising Services
Too much data, too much automation, too much quick and dirty execution can lead to a brand or campaign that is dead before I could thrive. Miner Thought puts the human touch into branding and marketing.
Miner Thought has branding design and advertising experience that covers almost every vertical and business size. From start ups and local businesses that have limited resources but big dreams to multi-national brands with multi million dollar annual advertising budgets – we have experience with them all.
Branding & Identity Design Packages
Have a single logo created or collaborate on a fully functional brand bible with ai-ready templates and design systems.
Digital Website and mobile Experiences
Design, develops and launches websites, internal portals, mobile applications, and experiential experiences.
Advertising Campaigns
Focus on strategic and creative ideas that drive business and connect with people.
Fractional leadership and creative consultation
Retainer or hourly based consulting available so you can get senior guidance from over 20 years of small and global scale advertising and creative services. Fractional creative leadership for in-house marketing teams and a CMOs – complete campaign creation and execution if you are a first time business owner unsure of how to start.
Our Approaches
Every project or engagement follows a proven, human-centered process even if we us AI and automation to speed up production or key operations. This ensures every decision is grounded in real user behavior — not assumptions.
Product & Website Design
- Understand — stake holder interviews and align on project plan
- Map — Define journeys, interactive user flows, and friction points, User Personas,
- Structure — agree on and build UX architecture, wireframes, technology stack and AI technology enhancements
- Validate — Test, refine, and improve through quick interactive prototyping
- Deliver — High-quality UI, production-ready outputs, or full design and development and launch.
Branding & Advertising
- Understand — stake holder interviews and align on project plan
- Map — consumer touch points and consumer profile creation
- Structure — Align on the strategy and creative brief and final timeline
- Validate — Create initial concepts and designs and market test, refine, and improve direction (mock campaigns, brand design directions, animatics or storyboards for video/commercials)
- Deliver — High quality final creative assets created and delivered
Experience that delivers from HUMANS with super creative powers
We’ve spent 20+ years designing digital experiences—from early web and 3D animation to modern SaaS platforms and AI-driven products. Some of these past experiences include:
- Led UX and product design for multiple SaaS platforms
- Designed and launched 100+ digital experiences
- Built design systems and research practices from the ground up
- Worked with global brands including Guinness, Toyota, and Scotiabank and first time business owners just starting their companies
- Managed creative teams in companies and agencies settings
Our thoughts on AI in creative services
We see AI as a tool — not a replacement for human creativity. It helps us move faster and stay lean, but we rely on decades of experience, intuition, and craft to create meaningful work. If you’re looking for quick AI “pretty” visuals without strategy or depth, we’re probably not the right fit. But if you value thoughtful use of AI to enhance creative intelligence, we’re aligned.
- Research & Documentation: Support product and business requirement writing, persona creation, user flows, and wireframes
- Automation: Streamline operations — from meeting dictation to structured note generation — so our teams can stay focused on creativity
- Writing Support: Use AI for proofreading, variations, and ideation — always human-reviewed for final polish and nuance
- Concept Visualization: Create quick placeholder graphics or motion concepts before collaborating with professional production teams
- Interactive Prototyping: Develop coded prototypes (“Vibe Coding”) as proof-of-concept models before full development — saving time and resources during design exploration
Locally Serving:
With clients Nationally and Internationally:
- Ontario
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Canada
- U.S.A.