Charles Honig is an experienced product designer

Currently leading design on enterprise employee experience software @

Transit Stats App

Public transit, made personal

As a daily Chicago CTA rider, I had no way to track my own public transit data, so I built the first app that does. Transit Stats went from concept to the App Store in four months and now serves 1,500+ users with 100+ paying for premium.

Years
2025-2026
Role
Founder, Product Designer
Scope
Strategy, UI/UX Design, 0 to 1
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8 min read78

Microsoft Give

Making charitable giving effortless

Charitable giving at Microsoft was buried in outdated tools that made participating harder than it should be. I led design on Give vNext, the platform that now connects 200,000+ employees to giving and has helped raise over $520 million for 35,000+ nonprofits.

Years
2024
Role
Lead Product Designer
Scope
Strategy, UI/UX Design, Branding
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7 min read64

Microsoft Contracts

1 million contracts, one modern platform

Legal teams at Microsoft manage over 1 million contracts on a platform that had grown outdated and hard to use. I redesigned the entire experience and introduced an agentic AI experience for finding and managing contracts, now serving 30,000 visitors a month.

Years
2026
Role
Lead Product Designer
Scope
Strategy, UI/UX Design, Research
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8 min read92

BragBook

Track work wins as they happen

The work that earns promotions and raises is easy to lose track of, and by the review cycle most of it is forgotten. I founded BragBook to make capturing work accomplishments effortless, designing and building the entire product myself, and growing it to 500+ users since launch.

Years
2025-2026
Role
Founder, Product Designer
Scope
Strategy, UI/UX Design, 0 to 1
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6 min read51

Microsoft ITM

Keeping great talent in-house

Moving internally at Microsoft was slow enough that employees often left the company to grow in their careers instead of staying. I led design on the Internal Talent Marketplace, making internal moves fast and easy, lowering attrition risk by 25% and saving an estimated $30,000 in hiring costs per move.

Years
2022
Role
Lead Product Designer
Scope
UI/UX Design, Strategy
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5 min read39

Play

Here are some assorted visual design explorations, traditional graphic design work, and anything else I thought looked nice.

Harvest — vehicle branding
CloudBlue cover
Hodu — COVID-19 testing site
Travis — branding & signage
Collective Strangers — project showcase
Harvest — brand guidelines & web

My Story

I’m a product designer with 7+ years of experience and a background in visual design, spanning agency and in-house work across tech, healthcare, real estate, and e-commerce.

I currently work at Microsoft, where I lead design on enterprise employee experience software, turning complex problems into scalable, user‑centered experiences that drive real results.

Charles Honig

Experience

Microsoft

Product Designer 2

(2022 - Present)

Microsoft

Product Designer 1

(2021 - 2022)

Traffik Creative Agency

Visual Designer

(2019 - 2021)

OluKai/Roark

Graphic Designer

(2019)

Awards

FY26 Q1 Beacon Award

Microsoft

CELA Litigation Hold Management Platform

FY25 Q1 Beacon Award

Microsoft

CELA LegalEase platform design

FY24 Q1 Beacon Award

Microsoft

Give vNext platform design