About — Clinton Walker

Clinton Walker

Visual designer | Art Director

Visual designer and art director with backgrounds in branding, packaging, web, product, UI/UX, marketing, and advertising. With such a broad range of design experience I’ve been considered a generalists, which allows me to see the big picture and work with multiple teams across multiple platforms. I’m very passionate about design and consider myself a visual thinker and creative problem-solver.

Skills

Software

Experience

Google (Fitbit) // San Francisco
UI/UX Product Engineer
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023

As UI/UX Product Engineer I worked with several teams within Fitbit and Pixel to launch Nextbit, the latest phase of app and device interfaces.

• Created and edited UI for IOS, Android, WearOS for Fitbit & Google Pixel
• Created all marketing assets for Fitbit application and devices across all mobile platforms
• Created assets for PR, Web, Advertising, OOBE, and helped oversee RTW localization
• Worked with the systems team to help create storylines, color systems, iconography, illustration
• Worked with marketing animation teams to edit iconography and copy

Leica // San Francisco
Assitant Curator / Educator / Product Photographer
2016 - Current

Leica is the leading brand for professional use cameras. I’ve worked with their showroom and retail space in roles such as assistant gallery curator, bookmaking workshop assistant to world renowned photographers as an InDesign specialist, and as product photographer for marketing/social media campaigns.

General Assembly // San Francisco
UXDI Immersive Apprentice
Jan 2020 - April 2020

Participated in a full time boot camp that involved over 400 hours of professional training where I utilized hands-on approaches for user-centered design and research methods, design thinking, team collaboration, and client relations. Participated in individual and collaborative projects, including:

Prenuvo:
• Consulted and designed a new landing page, onboarding process, and user flow for scheduling/purchasing
• Humanized the information and imagery for the landing page
• Created an onboarding process to boost scheduling
• Designed new user flow for scheduling and purchasing an MRI
• I was later hired by the lead of product to consult on rebranding and UX/UI of their new site

Identity Guard:
• Consulted and designed a free mobile app with free VPN and subscription based storage tools
• Created an educational onboarding process to help form proactive habits
• Created steps to learn new facts meanwhile incentivizing upon completion of the lessons

Dosist | Oakland & Los Angeles, CA
Operations Manager / Project Manager / Brand Consultant
2017 - 2019

Dosist is a cannabis company based in Los Angeles that uses technology to deliver safe, targeted, and effective cannabis-based formulas, in a precise dose.

• Ran operations in Northern California by managing teams and overseeing ordering, point of sales, marketing, and deliveries
• Implemented processes and streamlined communication to improve quality, productivity and efficiency
• Created marketing promotions to boost sales year round and holiday seasons. Also created engaging sales displays for users to explore and become educated of health benefits of the products. Meanwhile gaining lots of information from feedback, testing through demos. Also designed ads for in-store promotions and industry specific publications.

Clinton Walker Creative
Consultant / Art Director / Designer
2005 - 2017

I’ve been active as a freelance designer for many small companies, non-profits, and design agencies between full-time roles.

• Worked as design consultant for print, web, and product
• Developed and managed brands
• Created package design, from structural to finished product
• Developed web and print collateral
• Photographed products for print publications and packaging

Recreation SF | San Francisco, CA
Lead Designer
2014 - 2015

Recreation is a creative brand agency that integrates strategy, design, content, and video.

• As a lead designer I was responsible for working with a team to develop and manage brands through web & print design
• Developed and managed brands

Know Yourself | Oakland, CA
Art Director / Product Developer / Product Manager
2012 - 2014

Know Yourself is a start-up focused on educational material about human anatomy. The goal was to create activity material, subscription based adventure programs, comic books, and toys to take kids on interesting adventures to learn how their bodies work, hence the name, “Know Yourself”.

• Hired and managed full-time designers and illustrators
• From my ideas, I created concepts, and prototypes to be produced by manufacturers
• Worked directly with writers and artists to produce content for activity books and comic books
• Managed everything produced, from products/packaging to illustration styles were on brand
• Worked with engineers to produce engaging toys that paralleled the storylines of the books and comics
• Oversaw production of all products

Perspective Branding | Emeryville, CA
Art Director
2011 - 2012

Perspective Branding is a design agency, specializing in brand strategy/design and packaging design.

• Responsible for brand development and management
• Worked with a small team to rebrand medium to large scale companies that lead in their industries or markets
• My team and I would create brand content, hand off to the company’s internal design team, and approve designs they would submit to ensure brand consistency

The Sales Factory | Greensboro, NC
Art Director / Lead Designer / Product Developer / Product Manager
2005 - 2009

Sales Factory is an agency with a broad scope. Research, testing, and prototyping for hardware. Brand strategy, packaging, web, and online/printed marketing.

• Took creative lead to win new clients
• Took them from a failing agency to thriving with large clients
• Was not only art director, but also lead designer, helped manage accounts, created an infrastructure for all departments to work by
• Developed and managed products

Education
General Assembly UXDI Immersive | San Francisco, CA
Certification in UX design

Savannah College of Art and Design | Savannah, GA
Graduated Cum Laude / Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Art History

University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Greensboro, NC
Majored in Sculpture / Minored in Percussion