I’m Charles Honig, a product designer who engineers clarity

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.

Charitable giving at Microsoft was buried in outdated tools that made participating harder than it should be.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.

Legal Ease is Microsoft’s internal platform for submitting and managing legal requests, handling thousands a year. I designed the platform from 0 to 1 to primarily live as a Teams app, and as a result a process that previously took 5-6 weeks now closes in under one week.

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.