About Me

Michele Tepper is an interaction designer with a passion for making things simple, elegant, and enjoyable to use. She has a particular interest in experiences, products, and services that bring the power of networked computing off the computer screen and into the world around us.

Most recently, Misha was Creative Director at  EnergyHub, a venture-backed Brooklyn-based startup devoted to finding innovative solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. At EnergyHub, her team collaborated with Smart Design to bring the Home Base home energy manager to market, and launched the Mercury wireless thermostat platform. 

Before joining EnergyHub in 2010, she was a Principal Designer in frog design’s New York studio. She led projects there across a wide range of consumer and enterprise sectors, ranging from specialized professional tools to digital media projects to mobile health services. In 2008, she co-convened the company’s worldwide internal expert group that shared best practices on projects that span hardware and software design, and she has spoken widely and co-lead workshops on convergent design.

Her career in interaction design started at IBM, where she helped set information architecture standards for the ibm.com global website, and at Academic Partners, where she created web presences for University Business magazine and the late lamented Lingua Franca.

She has written influential early essays on social software and online community formation, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. A culture obsessive, chronic procrastinator, and fourth-generation Brooklynite, Michele’s hobbies include confusing people with multiple variations on her given name and referring to herself in the third person.