OWEN CLARKE · PRODUCT DESIGNER · CHICAGO
Ten years helping teams turn messy problems into simple, accessible products — from first sketch to shipped interface.
Product strategyUX researchInteraction designDesign systemsAccessibilityPrototyping
SELECTED WORK
A Booking Flow for a Neighborhood Clinic
Riverside Family Clinic (fictional)One Design System for Five Products
Fieldwork Software (fictional)Listening to 40 Truck Drivers
Lakeshore Logistics (fictional)
A Calmer Budgeting App
Pennywise Labs (fictional)
A Volunteer Dashboard for a Food Bank
Westside Food Bank (fictional)HOW I THINK
Good design is mostly listening. The pixels are the easy part — understanding the people who will use them is the real work.
Results across recent projects
Improvement in the main success metric, per project (fictional clients).
CASE STUDIES
01PPriya N., Head of Digital
Mobile appNorthside Credit Union (fictional)
+38%Completed sign-ups
-64%Support calls
5Steps, down from 14
Rethinking a bank app’s onboarding
New members were abandoning sign-up halfway. We cut the flow from 14 steps to 5.
Owen made our hardest flow feel easy.
ResearchInteraction design10 weeks
02MMarcus L., CTO
Design systemFieldwork Software (fictional)
48Components
5Products aligned
2xFaster shipping
One design system for five products
Five teams, five button styles. Now one library with 48 accessible components.
Our developers finally stopped guessing.
Design systemsAccessibility12 weeks
03DDana R., Product lead
ResearchLakeshore Logistics (fictional)
40Driver interviews
12Ride-alongs
3Big product changes
Listening to 40 truck drivers
A month of ride-alongs reshaped a dispatch app around the people actually using it.
Owen heard what our dashboards never showed us.
UX researchStrategy6 weeks
How a project runs
Four phases, weekly check-ins and no surprises.
Scroll2 wks
Listen
Stakeholder workshops and user interviews.
1 wk
Sketch
Ten ideas per screen, on paper first.
4–8 wks
Design & test
Prototypes tested with real users every week.
2 wks
Ship
Handoff, documentation and launch support.
01/04
RECOGNITION
2025
Best Accessible Product
Midwest UX Awards (fictional)For the credit-union onboarding redesign.
2024
Speaker
Design Systems Summit (fictional)Talk: “Boring components, happy users.”
2023
Accessibility certification
Web Accessibility Institute (fictional)Certified accessibility specialist.
2022
50th shipped product
Studio milestoneApps, dashboards and design systems.
KIND WORDS
Owen made our hardest flow feel easy. Sign-ups jumped in the first month.
Priya N.Head of Digital, credit union
Our developers finally stopped guessing. The design system paid for itself in a quarter.
Marcus L.CTO, software company
Owen heard what our dashboards never showed us — the drivers.
Dana R.Product lead, logistics
Example reviews for a fictional business.
THE ROADMAP
Listen
Workshops and interviews.
Sketch
Ten ideas per screen.
Prototype
Clickable flows.
Test
Real users, every week.
Ship
Handoff and launch.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
Tell me about your product and your users. I reply within two business days.
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