
Chris Halaska
Product Designer
I’ve been designing digital products for over 20 years. I grew up in Australia and recently moved to Dubai.
Six of those years were at Google, working as a UX lead on products including Google Photos. Through that work I’ve been between San Francisco, Singapore, India, and New York. Before that, advertising at Ogilvy, one of the world’s leading agencies.
I run Halaska Studio, an AI-native product design and development studio for founders who want a partner, not an agency. Pricing is simple: $12K/month, or one-off projects from $16K. The newest thing out of the studio is Dash, a one-week design service for products that work but still look like AI built them. There’s also UI by Halaska, a UI kit for founders building AI products with coding agents.
I’m also a co-founder and CPO of Arkai, an AI and data software company.
Work
- DashFounder2026–Now
- Halaska StudioFounder & Product Designer2023–Now
- ArkaiCo-founder & CPO2026–Now
- ImmutableStaff Product Designer2022–2023
- GoogleUX Design Lead2015–2022
- Commonwealth BankSenior Designer2014–2015
- Reactive & PusherMy freelance design era2014
- The MonkeysSenior Designer2010–2013
- Ogilvy InteractiveSenior Art Director2006–2010