Mike Harmer
Mike Harmer

Designer / developer for creative businesses and digital publishers

Some recent work highlights...

Common People
Treatments
Treatments
Farm League
Jekyll Themes
Common People
Killer Portfolio
Slate
Treatments
Farm League
Treatments
Common People
shots
Slate
Farm League
Slate
Treatments
Jekyll Themes
Outsider
Killer Portfolio
Slate
Easy Mondays
shots
shots

I'm a generalist designer with over 15 years in the game.

Just as happy creating high-level flows and concepts as detailed visual designs, through to production-ready code.

These areas bring out my best work...

Treatments
Treatments
Treatments
Slate
Treatments
Treatments
Treatments
Slate
Treatments
Treatments
Slate
Slate
Treatments
Treatments
Treatments

Product UI + UX

From zero to one, or from now to what's next... I create functional and user-friendly interfaces that help people achieve their goals.

I’ve shipped countless improvements to a mature product at Slate, led a complete design overhaul of Source Creative, and created a brand new Treatments product for the creative ad industry.

shots
shots
Jekyll Themes
Lightstep
Killer Portfolio
shots
Jekyll Themes
shots
Killer Portfolio
Jekyll Themes
shots
shots
Jekyll Themes
Killer Portfolio

Blogs + Editorial

Helping businesses and creators to build a stunning, on-brand and productive platform to publish their ideas is a challenge I relish.

I’ve designed and built custom editorial sites like shots, and created themes for Jekyll and Tumblr that have been used by over 100,000 creators and brands.

Farm League
CMN PPL
Irresistible
Farm League
Easy Mondays
CMN PPL
Farm League
Yessian
CMN PPL
CMN PPL
Irresistible
Easy Mondays
Farm League
Irresistible
CMN PPL
Outsider
CMN PPL

Portfolio Websites

I love finding unique ways to present visual work and sell creative services. So much that I made a whole website to share my inspiration.

Recently I've created rad sites for Common People, Farm League, Irresistible, Outsider and many others.

Work with me

Monthly retainer

No quotes / scopes needed — just direct access to my to-do list: add tasks, we'll discuss them, then I'll get to work.

10 dedicated hours per week. Design and / or front-end development. Async by default, but meetings welcome.

$5,495 per month. Start next week, cancel anytime.

Book a call to see if we're a good fit.

Design

  • Web design
  • UI design
  • Landing pages
  • Wireframes
  • UX design
  • UX copywriting
  • Design audits
  • Product ideas

Development

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • NextJS + React
  • Jekyll + Liquid
  • Astro
  • Theme customization
  • Page speed optimization