Marco van Hylckama Vlieg / product designer

A practice of useful objects.

Twenty years shaping products where interface, code, and artificial intelligence meet.

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the practice
20+years of product work
05major organizations
18independent products
04spoken languages
Edition M / permanent collectionM
The artifact is only convincing when the thinking behind it is precise.

Marco works from ambiguity to release. Research clarifies the pressure points. Prototypes make decisions visible. Production code keeps the proposal honest. The result is a product with a point of view and a system capable of surviving contact with reality.

Provenance of a working practice.

Six environments shaped the same habit: make the hard question tangible enough for a team to decide.

1998-2005

Endemol

Multilingual content systems and international entertainment platforms, led across UX and engineering.

2005-2013

Yahoo!

Global prototyping teams, rebrand and personalization work, scalable design process, senior talent development.

2013-2017

Google

High-fidelity prototypes for Cloud AI, Assistant, and Android, built to turn debate into product evidence.

2017-2021

Walmart Labs

Mobile, voice, and personalization through a retail organization in full digital transformation.

2021-now

Kohl's

Cart, checkout, wallet, account, self-checkout, and generative AI practice across the design organization.

ongoing

AI-Created

An independent lab for AI tools, design utilities, games, music, video, and shipped experiments.

Six forms of applied judgment.

Form A

AI-native product design

Products designed around model behavior, voice, agents, and ambient assistance from the start.

Form B

Design engineering

Working software that joins product intent to technical reality.

Form C

Zero to one

Research, framing, prototyping, and first release.

Form D

Enterprise systems

Complex journeys made coherent, scalable, and usable.

Forms E + F

Internal AI tools and leadership

New workflows, capable teams, direct critique, and examples people can build from.

Objects already in use.

Independent releases from AI-Created. Each one is designed, built, and shipped as a real product.