# Robin Tafel > Product Design @ Meta Ai | Champion for Human Centered Design | Accessibility, Inclusivity, Ethics in Design Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/robintafel I love digging into design problems and solving them with a blend of creativity, strategy, and teamwork. As a veteran product designer and creative lead, I’m able to architect engaging deliverables using human-centered design methodologies and build winning, diverse teams that position businesses and organizations for success. I’m an influential and insightful professional who’s passionate about creating engaging products and continuously improving myself and my team. From building immersive games that teach children coding skills delivering product concepts for mobile OS, mobile content platforms, wearables, and connected devices. I apply myself wholeheartedly to every endeavor. I will accelerate any design challenge to its highest potential using my expertise across UX/UI design, prototyping, and productization. My joy as a professional, so far, has involved becoming a change agent who formulates strategies and action plans to achieve results through design thinking, research, and user-metrics. I work towards building inclusive and diverse design teams, empowering the people who work for me and with me to reach career goals and grow as designers and creative professionals. Engaging and collaborative, my clients and senior leaders count on me to foster customer-centric cultures and deliver high-level business solutions. I look forward to bringing the same to your organization. Connect with me today! ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Present Ai Infrastracture, ML Observability, Ai Explainability ### Product Designer/ Graphic Designer @ Jan 2006 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area I work with clients on a wide range of UX, graphic design, and product design challenges. My services include product conceptualization and development, UX wire-framing, detailed UI mockups, graphic design, branding, and product photography. I work directly with developers to create working prototypes and launch apps and websites. I have worked on projects for 40+ clients including Apple, Tonal, and MAKE Magazine. ### Associate Creative Director @ Endless Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area While at Endless I worked at the core of product strategy and design to deliver technology tools and educational resources to users in emerging markets across the globe. We provided information access in low and no connectivity areas and tailored or user experience and product efforts to the needs of many underserved markets. I led user research initiatives and synthesized our findings into actionable product initiatives. Endless uses open source technology as its basis. While at Endless I contributed to a range of open-source projects and the Gnome operating system, including leading design efforts for new features such as parental controls. These new features and OS improvements reach millions of Linux Gnome users globally. I gave several talks at a number of Open Source conferences, advocating for and introducing human-centered design principles and practices to the open-source development community. ### Lead Product Designer @ Endless Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Product Designer @ Endless Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Design Contributor @ GNOME Foundation Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 Contributing designer and collaborator on various features for the GNOME Linux graphical desktop environment which reaches millions of users globally across several operating systems. Was asked to speak and gave multiple talks at GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) on "Human-Centered Design principles." Was asked to speak and gave a talk on "Microcopy and User Communication / Engagement" at Libre/Linux Applications Summit conference. ### Creative Director @ Hack Computer Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Hack is an immersive computer game designed to teach kids computer literacy, digital agency, and coding skills by allowing them to flip over their apps and "Hack" them. It encourages tinkering, creativity, and learning through play. I lead a talented team of designers, artists, writers, and creative thinkers who create the Hack world where coding challenges unfold in twisting plots led by a cast of characters. https://hack-computer.com/ ### User Interface / UX Designer @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | San Jose & San Francisco, CA ### Sr. Graphic Designer @ Seamless Product Development Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Campbell, CA • Responsible for visual ideation service program, used to scope and implement every project. • Carried out UI design projects for web applications, embedded products and medical devices. • Responsible for design of internal branding, software tools and business development collateral. ### User Interface & Brand Strategy Designer @ rProjects.com Inc Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | California • Evaluated pre-existing front-end user experience and designed visual specifications for v2. • Designed user interface for the company’s interal content management / creation web app. • Project-managed a team of web developers to carry out development of web applications. ### Founder / Photogropher / Graphic Designer @ Retina Visual Engine Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | San Jose, C • Freelance practice focused on photography, print design and corporate branding. • Managed & executed projects for over 35 clients from conceptualization through to production. • Responsible for all business management including marketing, billing & business development. ### Graphic Designer @ Cgrafx Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 • Carried out design projects for the firms’ clients from concept to completion. • Created & implemented identity & website for firm’s pro-bono client, California Music Center. ### Illuminated Manuscript Archivist @ Stanford University Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Palo Alto, California, United States • Collaborated on development of imaging and quality control workflows and created process documentation. • Examined and recorded quality issues on individual illuminated manuscript images. ### Digital Artist / Graphic Designer / Assistant to CEO @ Legacy Artists Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | San Jose, CA • Assisted in lighting, photography, painting & production of clients’ portraits. • Prepared images for production including detailed photo editing, compositing & color correction. • Designed studio products and marketing collateral. ## Education ### BFA in Graphic Design Rhode Island School of Design Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 ### AS in Graphic Design Brooks College Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robintafel - Website: http://www.robintafel.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/robintafel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/robintafel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07