M.Chilson is my independent design consultancy, where I help companies solve complex challenges through thoughtful, user-centered design. With over a decade of experience spanning startups, Fortune 500 companies, and groundbreaking initiatives, I specialize in crafting intuitive digital experiences, driving product innovation, and shaping strategic design solutions.
Whether you're launching a new product, refining an existing experience, or rethinking your design strategy, M.Chilson offers expertise in product design, UX strategy, and systems thinking to create meaningful, impactful solutions. Let's build something great together.
The Chilson Design Collaborative is our way of putting a name to the work we've been doing for several years. By creating a community of connected individuals from a plethora of backgrounds, we use our "Knights of The Round Table" approach to manage tasks, develop better products, and solve problems. We believe that the best way to create successful products and ideas is to collaborate with those outside the scope of a design or technology background, but rather utilize the skills and abilities of people with varying specialties. By on-boarding an accomplished group of diverse professionals from medical, artistic, or scientific backgrounds, we strive to provide a full circle solution to the challenges at hand.
The Chilson Design Collaborative acts as the parent company for our products and designs. In doing so, we continue to stay directly connected without losing sight of our goal to collaborate, create, and inspire the future of technology.
In today's world, technology such as smartphones, tablets, and watches has become an ever-present force, often leading to dependency and distraction. As digital tools take center stage, they slowly and sometimes unwillingly pull us away from our natural connection to the physical world and the objects that shape our daily lives.
Modern technology is designed to be an all-in-one solution for every task, from reading the news to checking the weather. While convenient, these devices demand our constant attention, diminishing our appreciation for the tangible world around us.
Rather than creating universal tools that strip objects of their uniqueness and personal significance, CommixDevices seeks to integrate technology into the things we already use and love, such as water bottles, pens, and other everyday essentials. This approach fosters a more natural, less intrusive interaction, allowing technology to complement rather than dominate our experiences.
At Commix, we strive to redefine how we engage with technology by seamlessly blending it into our daily lives. Drawing inspiration from biomimicry, human rhythm, and the philosophy of "Enchanted Objects" by MIT Media Lab researcher David Rose, we aim to move technology forward without sacrificing our connection to the physical world.
In 2015, my passion for cycling led me to explore its history, from its earliest designs to modern innovations. This research brought me to HERO (Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization) in Greensboro, AL.
Greensboro, a deeply impoverished town, faces significant economic challenges. HERO, led by Pam Dorr, works to provide low-income residents with affordable housing and community support. Like many U.S. towns, Greensboro struggles with invasive bamboo—yet this material is lightweight, durable, and historically used in bicycle construction, a practice nearly lost to the rise of the steel industry in the 1850s. Inspired by Pam’s work, I saw an opportunity to use bicycle design as a means to improve accessibility, sustainability, and economic opportunity. This sparked a mission to revive bamboo bikes as a low-cost, eco-friendly transportation solution for those in need.
Bambu carries this vision to the Northeast, reducing waste while providing reliable mobility to low-income families. As one article put it: "Miles proves that not only is what’s old new again, it’s sustainable, too."
For more on HERO or the Bambu project, visit their website or contact me.