Michael Nieling is a designer, educator, father, and full time spaz. He is the Creative Director at Ocupop and also has taught design at MIAD and the University of Wisconsin. Splitting time between studios in Hawaii, British Columbia and Wisconsin, if he's not on an airplane, he's likely somewhere shouting about design.

Michael has been helping to define the visual language of the web for over a decade. As Creative Director and founder of Ocupop, he has led design projects for technology companies at all ends of the spectrum - from Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and the W3C to countless successful (and horribly failed) startups, Michael has directed a small, super-powered team in creating some of the most influential logos, icons, and user interfaces on the web.