Mike Matas
Michael Matas is an American user interface designer and icon 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 Apple, Inc. and designed some of the major user interfaces in Mac OS X, iOS for Apple products. In addition, he has been listed as the co-inventor on patents Apple has filed.
He later left Apple.
Career
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.Matas presented at TED in 2011 on his work at Push Pop for Al Gore's interactive book Our Choice.