Alex Cagwin

My name is Alex Cagwin. I'm a digital designer and a founding partner of Melostat. I have a passion for working high impact products and helping companies find their 0 to 1.

Melostat is a product-led innovation consultancy. We partner with teams and companies who want to bring audacious ideas to life. We started working together 7 years ago. We have about 20 employees across the US focusing on lean product-development practices. Melostat has been fortunate enough to partner and build digital products for Dell Technologies, Nissan North America, Harley-Davidson, Astellas Pharmacueticals and Metromile.

My favorite Melostat project I've worked on has been Harley-Davidson. It was the most immerseive product, where got my motorcycle license so I could ride with local chapters and understand what it means to ride. Some of the interaction design we did was some of the most satisfying work I've done.

My most recent engagement, I was a founding member and head of design at Credo Health. Credo Health retrieves, analyzes and summarizes medical records. I helped bring the company from 0 to 1 to find their product market fit. I led a number of intiatives including our AI powered record processor to help providers understand medical histories at the point of care.

Previously, I had the opportunity to work at Parachute Health on a number of internal projects. One project that always stands out to me was optimizing their internal platform to enable new product verticals. Almost all of the work pixel-agonostic and I helped design functions and code for our internal teams.

I also did a stint with the team at SapientRazorfish working on the Publicis Groupe's internal platform, Marcel. I was there for 3 years, so ended up doing quite a bit of stuff. Paired with the Fluent Design Team at Microsoft on design the operating framework and experience architecture. Defined the vision and standards for a 10 person design team. Designed logic for a suggestion engine. And on of my favorite bits of work: Streamlined the timesheets submission process.

Before my more recent endeavors, I started my career at West Agile Labs as a QA analyst trying to break products. I was there for 3 years, where I built out and oversaw the design and product teams. I led our design team of five, pitched clients, managed resources, developed the West Agile brand and worked on over 45+ products, such as Natera, SpikeBee, Nvolv, Eventyoda, Octane AI, and ShearShare, which won Tech.Co’s startup of the year.

In my free time, I race downhill mountain bikes throughout the northeast corridor, take still images of sunsets when the colors are right, keep a running tab of burgers in new York City and occasionally attempt to make breakfast tacos.