I'm a Product Designer, in love with Figma

passionate about HCI & UX design, and research.

01 RECENT WORK

03 BIOGRAPHY

“Great design is the product of a deliberate thought process that asks the right questions, solves problems, and embraces new ideas."

UX Design + Brand +

Product Design

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Surfer, start-up-junkie, industrial designer, UXD, Italian marble sculptor, owner of a cat named Sushi.

Michael Clingerman

Founder - MCDesign Thinking

PERSONAL

Deeper Dive:

Professional: Michael has 20 years of brand, product development, UX design, and graphic design experience as a creative and independent designer and artist. Michael is a former Director of Design for Yahoo!, where he specialized in advertising, branding, product development and ideation for online campaign development and product monetization. As one of Yahoo’s first employees, Michael was a pioneer in defining today’s online experience. Michael also worked as a co-creative director for Turner Network Television on the trailblazing SPIV web magazine and social media web-zine project. He is a skilled artist, versatile graphic designer and he is uniquely adept at helping companies create evolutionary experiences that last a lifetime.

Personal: Michael is an avid paddleboarder, a surfer in the PNW. With parents formally retired from the US Navy, Michael has lived in both coastal seaboards of the United States as well as Puerto Rico and has an avid love of the ocean as well as ocean life, the environment and those that will protect it like the SeaSheppard organization.  Additionally, Michael is also a lover of James Gandolfini Jr. and created filmography infographic about his carrier.

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Nemesis:

Cat hair in keyboard

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Education:

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