# Boris Bozic

Co-founder and Head of Design at Thinkmill. Product designer. Swimmer. Runner.

## Specialties

- [Product Design & Engineering](/content/services/product-design-engineering/index.html)
- [Design Systems](/content/services/design-systems/index.html)
- [UX & UI Design](/content/services/ux-ui-design/index.html)

## Find Boris on

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/boris-bozic-538234a)

### thinkmill method

- **Kickoff**  
The kickoff is a document creation ceremony that serves as a high-level contract between the business and delivery team that captures the goals of the project that helps to reveal hidden assumptions which may cause issues down the road.  
[October 2024](/content/method/playbook/kickoff/index.html)

- **Route mapping**  
Route mapping is a process of co-designing a project‘s URL schema (and more) to define the UX and IA of a site or app.  
[October 2024](/content/method/playbook/route-mapping/index.html)

### News  
**Boris was a panellist at Design x Engineering Co-Lab**  
Our Co-CEO, Boris Bozic, was one of three expert panellists who spoke at the first Design x Engineering Co-Lab on Design Systems, in Sydney. We’re proud to have his serious design systems knowledge at the helm of our design-engineering practice. Thank you for the words of wisdom and experience shared by the other panellists Dominik Wilkowski and Maria Christley; and to Morgan Fletcher for MC-ing the event, and Atlassian for hosting us with an impressive pizza spread. We’ll be there for the next.  
[August 2023](/content/blog/boris-was-a-panellist-at-design-x-engineering-co-lab/index.html)

### Articles  
- **Route Map - a lightweight schema for defining a UX blueprint**  
A Route Map is essentially a lightweight URL schema for an app or experience. This is how we use it.  
[March 2023 ·4 min read](/content/blog/route-maps/index.html)

- **The Thinkmill Learning Loop**  
How the work we do in open source and client services drives our craft to new levels.  
[February 2023 ·2 min read](/content/blog/the-learning-loop/index.html)

- **Our Philosophy of Working**  
The mindsets, principles, and enablers that shape how we build great products.  
[February 2023 ·5 min read](/content/blog/thinkmills-philosophy-of-working/index.html)

- **Delightful products, the Antifragile way**  
Boris recently spoke at Dovetail’s Delighters Conference about our method for building great products within cross-functional teams.  
[October 2022](/content/blog/delightful-products-the-antifragile-way/index.html)

- **Creating Apps with JavaScript**  
Tom and Boris discuss and demonstrate how (and why) to prototype UI animations and interactions before development, and how to build a native-quality app for SydJS using web technologies.  
[November 2015](/content/blog/creating-apps-with-java-script/index.html)

- **Prototyping: Solutions vs. Interactions**  
Designing and prototyping the solution is different to prototyping interactions. Appreciating the distinction will help you pick your tools and be more effective at both.  
[October 2015 ·7 min read](/content/blog/prototyping-solutions-vs-interactions/index.html)

- **Prototyping UI Animation**  
Interaction design with Edge Animate  
[August 2014 ·12 min read](/content/blog/prototyping-ui-animation/index.html)

### More posts from other Thinkmill voices
- **Designing beyond the median user**  
For seventy years software has shipped one shape to every user. The confluence of design systems, headless platforms, and agent-native exposure has coalesced to make that constraint optional. A retrospective of the median-user problem and the new architectural horizon now opening.  
[June 2026 ·10 min read](/content/blog/designing-beyond-the-median-user/index.html)

- **What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost**  
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...  
[May 2026 ·4 min read](/content/blog/what-engineering-teams-owe-for-the-ai-speed-boost/index.html)

- **A behavioural framework for the monsters in your team**  
The AI in Design 2026 report captures a profession mid-mutation. The "Frankenjob" label the coverage put on it misses the seam where the real work happens.  
[May 2026 ·5 min read](/content/blog/a-behavioural-framework-for-the-monsters-in-your-team/index.html)