# Clarke Robinson

> UX Product Designer | 8+ years experience in B2B, SaaS, enterprise software | Applying human-centered design methods to generative & agentic AI interfaces

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/clarkerobinson

I’m a product designer and educator with 8+ years of experience designing complex software products and helping the next generation of designers prepare for careers in UX and product design.

At Kantata, I led end-to-end design for AI-driven professional services tools, including Kantata Pulse, a survey platform that exceeded adoption goals by 133% in its first three months. My experience building design teams and shaping product strategy informs the way I teach: hands-on, human-centered, and grounded in real-world practice.

As a part-time instructor at Academy of Art University, I help undergraduate and graduate students develop the creative confidence, technical fluency, and critical thinking skills they need to thrive in an evolving design landscape. I also developed a graduate-level course in human-centered design that integrates industry best practices with emerging AI tools to enhance creativity and design practice.

Whether in the classroom or the studio, my focus is the same: empowering people to design with empathy, curiosity, and clarity; and to ship work that balances customer needs with business goals.

## Work Experience
### Part-Time Instructor @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco, CA
- Prepare undergraduate and graduate students for careers in UX and product design through hands-on projects, critique, and mentorship emphasizing user-centered design and portfolio development.
- Developed graduate-level curriculum in human-centered design, integrating industry best practices and emerging AI tools to enhance creativity and design practice.

### Manager, Product Design @ Kantata
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Drove design vision for multiple high-priority product features: identifying user needs, facilitating design sprints, and delivering prototypes that communicated design rationale and generated alignment with product management, engineering, and leadership teams.
- Key design owner of Kantata Pulse, a survey tool which balanced vital customer needs for qualitative project data with business needs for new revenue sources. Collaborated closely with product management and engineering on the entire product development lifecycle, achieving 133% of our customer adoption goals just 3 months after launch.
- Spearheaded conceptual designs and prototyping for generative AI solutions aimed at professional services, defining impactful user experiences and strategic direction for future development.
- Built a product design team across 4 different locations, fostering a culture of psychological safety and creativity, empowering team members to grow their careers.

### Product Designer @ Ten-X
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed a machine learning application for lead list generation and sales insights, automating a previously manual process and saving a mission-critical team hundreds of staff hours, significantly enhancing efficiency and decision-making.
- Clarified UI and data visualization for a customer dashboard, giving commercial real estate brokers insights into active transactions.

### Creative Director @ Inform, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
Created customer support and knowledge management tools deployed across 4,000+ publisher sites.

### Creative Director @ Reverb Technologies Inc. (Acquired by Inform, Inc.)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA
- Conceived and designed a natural language processor-powered insights product for the large-scale publishing industry, showcasing monetization potential that contributed to acquisition.
- Utilized deep CSS knowledge to design and execute multiple brand and website redesigns to support the evolving business model of a robust NLP engine.

### Earlier Roles @ Nextag, Zuberance, Choose Energy, Yahoo!, Blue Lithium
Jan 2005 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed large-scale consumer marketplaces, internal tooling, and campaign management systems at early-stage startups.
- Created high-converting landing pages and marketing flows for national clients (TiVo, Chili's, Motel 6, Blockbuster), consistently improving conversion metrics through iterative testing and refinement.


## Education
### BFA in Art with emphasis in Photography
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clarke-robinson-design
- Portfolio: http://www.clarkerobinsondesign.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13