Welcome Atlassian!

Hey, I’m Meike! I know that great product starts with:

🔬 conducting research

🤝 collaborating with humility

🌎 understanding the system

👩‍🎓 cultivating a growth mindset

My values

🪴 Growth Mindset

I love learning! Life is about exploring, iterating, and improving. I find curiosity, sharing, and respect is key to growth.
🎯 Customer Focus

Without customers, we don’t have a product! It’s my responsibility to balance business objectives while advocating for our users.
🤝 Collaborative

I love working with respectful, creative, goal-oriented teams that are dedicated to bringing our best selves at work!
🙋‍♀️ Accountable

I believe in owning your own work and success! Honesty and transparency are huge components of accountability!

Testimonials

Meike maintains a customer-focused mindset, always thinking about what problem we are trying to solve and how we make that an enjoyable experience. She looks for deep collaboration and is always seeking input on designs, taking into account engineering feedback about feasibility and questions about the product flows.

Ruben Rangel, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Guild Education
Meike's exceptional at balancing ethical design principles with business objectives, always keeping both the user and the bottom line in mind. Additionally, Meike is highly skilled at giving and receiving feedback, creating a constructive environment where ideas can thrive. She would be an incredible asset to any team.

Skylar Denney, Sr. Product Designer @ Walmart
I so admire the energy, creativity, passion, curiosity, skill and thoughtfulness you bring to everything you do - and how you take such ownership of everything but at the same time - find ways to bring in diverse perspectives and mentorship in to help guide you and keep us focused on the stuff that really matters!

Erin Levine, CEO @ Hello Divorce
You exhibit remarkable initiative when it comes to fostering collaboration with the product team. You actively seek out opportunities to engage with stakeholders, developers, and other relevant team members to ensure that design solutions are aligned with broader project goals, as well as outside counsel (eg Merit Metrics).

Heather MacKenzie, President @ Hello Divorce

Featured projects

Calculating child support

A zero to one child support calculator to help California parents.

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Preparing customers to be "divorce deady"

It can take people 2-4 years to feel financially and emotionally confident to divorce. Here's how I support them.

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Building the Hello Divorce design system

I built a Design System to ensure brand consistency and enable rapid design implementation.

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Just for fun

I love to learn about and dabble in different art styles! Right now I'm focusing on a rubberhose series.

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