# Chris Mueller > Design Director at Blink Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrismueller I’m a hands-on design leader with a background in UX design and research. At Blink, I mostly lead strategic design work for organizations including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, The New York Times, Qualcomm, and eBay. My work often focuses on helping teams navigate complexity, align on a clear direction, and move forward with confidence. While I lead strategy and direction, I stay close to the craft and am most effective when I can move fluidly between framing problems and designing solutions. ## Work Experience ### Design Director @ Blink Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California Blink is a UX research and design firm that works with great companies to create meaningful digital products, brands, and experiences. Key Responsibilities: • Lead interdisciplinary teams for diverse client projects, overseeing research, design, and overall project success. • Define strategy and direction, guiding projects from start to finish while staying deeply involved in execution. • Build partnerships with clients to ensure constant alignment on project goals, priority, and direction. • Lead cross-functional workshops with project stakeholders. • Plan and scope incoming projects, defining resources and budget. • Lead internal design systems practice group to evolve and evangelize industry-leading approaches to scalable systems. • Manage a team of designers of various levels and disciplines, fostering career growth and personal success. ### Senior UX Designer @ Blink Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA *Joined via acquisition of Redshift Digital* ### Senior UX Designer @ Redshift Digital, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA Redshift is a digital product agency working with clients across a wide variety of industries, from aspiring startups to some of the world’s best known brands. Key Responsibilities: • Led design for diverse client projects, delivering design and strategy artifacts across all levels of fidelity. • Partnered closely with visual and motion designers to establish product look and feel and craft detailed motion studies. • Worked alongside researchers to define study goals, write protocols, and synthesize findings into actionable insights. • Developed detailed static and animated prototypes. • Crafted comprehensive design systems and associated documentation. • Led weekly client reviews, facilitating discussion and feedback. ### UX Designer @ Redshift Digital, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA Key Responsibilities: Effectively the above, but more focused on executing than leading. ### Senior UX Designer @ NASA Ames Research Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA The Ames HCI Group builds software that supports mission operations and science planning for both manned and unmanned missions. Key Responsibilities: • Led design through all phases of project lifecycle across 20+ production systems, including wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, design specs. • Planned, executed, and synthesized research and testing activities. • Partnered with developers to optimize implementation decisions. • Designed and executed front-end test cases. ### Software Engineer @ DIRECTV Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | El Segundo, CA The DIRECTV Systems Engineering division builds software to assist the operations and maintenance of DIRECTV's numerous broadcast centers. Key Responsibilities: • Led a small development team working on internal operations software. • Developed custom Java applications ranging from signal visualization to maintaining data integrity. • Led user research and requirement generation activities with stakeholders and users. • Created requirement documents and design specifications for new software applications. • Maintained project schedule and feature priority for all software releases. ## Education ### MS in Human-Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University ### BS in Computer Science Loyola Marymount University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cmuellerrr - Portfolio: http://www.iammueller.com - GitHub: http://www.github.com/cmuellerrr --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrismueller JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrismueller/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13