I do my best work when mixing organization and hands-on design. I love educating and helping inject design, collaboration, and beauty into products.
What I Look For
10 years experience solving enterprise sized problems by combining collaboration and beautiful design. Iām happiest when Iām helping others ā I do that through building design toolkits, evangelizing design, and engaging with customers.
Achievements
I build and maintain multiple Figma libraries to meet the needs of 70+ designers and SAS products.
I am the design lead for the creative direction of product design at SAS..
I lead cross-divisional design workshops for brand and product integration.
I am proficient in crafting usability surveys and have gathered insights from thousands of customers.
Values
š¤ Connection - Be a human to design for one
š Collaboration - Don't make anything alone
ā±ļø Efficiency - There is always a smarter way to design
Speaking Engagements
Designing at Scale. Guest Lector. Sept 2025. Graphic and Experience Design. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC.
Whats New In SAS Visual Analytics. 2020 SAS Day. Wells Fargo Headquarters. Charlotte, NC.
Data Can Be Beautiful: Crafting a Compelling Data Story. 2017 SAS Global Forum. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Data Can Be Beautiful: Crafting a Compelling Data Story. 2017 SAS Day. Wells Fargo Headquarters. Charlotte, NC.
How One Product Team Climbed the Accessibility Learning Curve. 2017. CSUN Conference. San Diego, CA.
Writing
A voyage through the visual design process - published in Bootcamp
Establishing a Visual Language for Enterprise Software
Publications
Malek, M., Trout, K. (2017). How One Product Team Climbed the Accessibility Learning Curve. CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, San Diego, CA.
Malek, M., Coyle, C.L., Mayse, C., Patil, V., & Shell, S. (2017). Data Can Be Beautiful: Crafting a Compelling Story with SAS Visual Analytics. SAS Global Forum, Orlando, FL.
Malek, M., Rajiv R. (2020). What's New in SAS Visual Analytics. SAS Global Forum, Washington, DC.
