Blackline
The SaaS platform I worked on for five years. I built and maintained its UI library, page layouts and many of its components.
Copyright © 2026 Mike Curts
Mike Curts
- Primary role
- Engineering Manager
- Specialty
- UI/UX & Accessibility
- Experience
- 10+ years
I'm Mike, an engineering manager who started out as a front-end developer. For over a decade I've designed and built accessible, high-performance web applications for ad and digital agencies, nonprofits, SaaS companies and enterprise platforms, and these days I lead the teams doing that work.
Fun fact: while I was at an ad agency, my name ended up in a commercial for a PlayStation game (opens in a new tab).
Work
Ad campaigns don't last forever, so many of these projects are no longer online. They live on here.
Better Call Saul
As a big Breaking Bad fan, building bettercallsaul.com was an honor. Still one of my favorite projects.
Lego Shop
Shop pages for lego.com. I built reusable UI components for the pattern library, then the pages that use them.
Anthem Connects
Information on Anthem and its programs, plus a Health Footprint calculator: answer a few lifestyle questions and see what, if anything, you could do to improve your health.
HYFN.com
A new site for HYFN, built from great designs. One of the most media-heavy responsive sites I've worked on, and it looked good on everything from iPhones to iMacs.
WSJ Media Kit
My first project for The Wall Street Journal. The media kit was built for modularity, so every section could be rearranged and edited through a custom CMS.
Quiznos
A fun, colorful social media and video hub. The responsive site showed every kind of media in modal windows, from original programming to people just eating.
Get Schooled
A major partnership between Viacom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring college information to students. I worked mostly on layout and responsive elements on one of my largest projects.
Cheetos Eggerator
A canvas app for designing your own Easter eggs and sharing them, in a playful parallax interface. Sadly, it only lasted the season.
Philosophy
A responsive site for Philosophy.com mixing image-based and editable text around an interactive canvas centerpiece. It was very blue.
FXX.com
The launch site for FX's new channel, FXX. I also built a global navigation shared with the FX site, so I worked extensively in both.
MTV Fantasy Election
Fantasy sports meets the 2012 election, and it turned out beautifully. According to MTV, over 10,000 people played through the entire election season.
Apostrophe Wine
A refined WordPress site for a wine client. I handled everything, front end and PHP, making it one of the most fully featured sites I've built. The simple design breaks a lot of information into easy-to-read sections.
Coach Music
A responsive music chart and video portal for live Coach concerts, with a light back end pulling in artist info.
Public Storage Mobile
I built the front end for the mobile version of the Public Storage website.
Toyota Ask an Owner
My only Toyota project, but a big one. People could ask questions, search existing ones and answer each other.
KetelOne.com
I wrote most of the CSS and JavaScript, in what I'd call record time. A fun site to explore, full of cocktail tips and company history.
VW Merge & Purge
Moving in together and can't keep both couches? Upload photos of your stuff and your partner's, and let the crowd vote on what gets merged and what gets purged.
Avatar: The Game
One of the biggest films of all time, and I built the site for the official game (which was actually fun to play). The site is long gone, but it had to make the list.
Real California Milk
Happy cows make happy milk. I built the front end of this WordPress site for recipes, cheese pairings and the story behind the Real California Milk label on the good stuff at the supermarket.
Olympus Pen Ready
Olympus handed out free cameras and invited people to share their shots on this site, built as a standalone site on Tumblr.
The VW Blog Network
A hub of WordPress blogs for every kind of VW fan, from casual to enthusiast. It drew a lot of traffic in its day and is now offline.
The VW Comparator
A microsite within VW.com for comparing VW models side by side, and against competitors in the class you were shopping.
PS3 Move vs. Stuff
More video game sites, and I loved it. For Sony's PlayStation Move launch I built microsites where you could compare Move with other motion controllers, learn how it worked and send your parents a request to buy you one.
Walden Class Photo
Another Facebook app I built the front end for: a class photo app that let new graduates share their accomplishment with friends.
WB Fan Kits
One of my early LA projects: a modular platform for Warner Bros. to showcase fan media for each new release. Built for a Harry Potter film, then reused for the Clash of the Titans and Nightmare on Elm Street reboots.
End of Nations
A video game site with layering, animation and video effects that were advanced for the time. A CMS let the developers update content and highlight the game's social media. The game and site are long gone.
Colgate
A Facebook app for rating your Colgate smile, sharing it with friends and posting it to a gallery. Fun, toothpastey stuff.
Fidelity Ads
Not a site, but a rebuild of Fidelity's Flash ad mini-apps in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including calculators that compared your savings and investments with others in your area.
Hyfn8
A proprietary platform, so there's not much to show. It let teams engage social media users, build and launch Facebook apps and schedule posts for clients.