msalva.com

What It Is

Miguel Salvador is the personal portfolio and services website of an independent designer. Unlike SaaS platforms that offer standardized tools, the site presents fully customized brand and digital product design consulting services. Miguel’s core focus is on “designing experiences that help brands grow,” aiming to deeply integrate brand thinking with product experience.

Core Dimensions

• Type of Tool/Service and Core Capabilities: Offers brand experience design, visual language development, and cross-platform product design services. Representative work includes designing a cross-brand payment experience for Credit Acceptance, as well as building a complete design foundation for GoCart—from brand identity to experience principles—which ultimately helped the company get acquired by Skipify.
• Design Philosophy and Background: Miguel’s background spans the evolution from traditional print to digital products, with an emphasis on the kind of careful thinking required when there is “no undo button.” He focuses on how environments shape human perception, viewing design as a medium for creating genuine connections rather than merely producing visuals.
• Collaboration and Resources: As a personal studio, it does not provide a resource library or collaboration features in the SaaS sense. However, his experience working with well-known brands such as PlayStation, Specialized Bikes, and JumpCloud demonstrates his ability to collaborate deeply with large teams and clients across industries.

Pricing

The website does not publish any pricing or package information. It follows a typical customized B2B service model, requiring business inquiries and quotes via email or LinkedIn.

Pros and Cons

Pros: 1) Strong experience serving major brands across industries; 2) A thoughtful design philosophy focused on the internal logic of experience and genuine human perception; 3) Proven ability to build design systems from 0 to 1 for startups, including contributing to a successful acquisition.
Cons: 1) As an individual service provider, capacity and scalability are limited; 2) The website copy contains a large amount of repeated text, resulting in low information density and a weaker reading experience; 3) It lacks concrete visual case studies, making it difficult to directly evaluate the final design output based on text descriptions alone.

Who It’s For

Best suited for established companies looking to reshape their brand experience, startups that need to build a foundational design system, and teams with very high standards for design detail and experiential depth.

Access from China

Unknown. As an overseas personal static website, it is generally likely to be directly accessible, but performance may fluctuate depending on server location and routing.