Anne Clark

Designer

New York, NY, United States

Member since March 2, 2018

Anne is a creative director with 20 years' experience and skills in visual design and UX. She's built digital products, design systems, marketing campaigns, and mobile apps. Her work with 30+ agencies includes TandemSeven, McCann, Publicis, Havas, Digitas, JWT, Droga5, and Razorfish. Her clients have included JP Morgan, Birchbox, Sony Music, BMW, and A&E. As a co-founder of Sein Analytics, she built the company’s financial analytics SaaS product.

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Portfolio

Sein SaaS Platform
- Fintech
- SaaS Design
- Banking & Finance
- Digital Creative Direction
- Trading Applications
- Responsive Design
- Startups
- Creative Direction
- UI Design
- Infographics
- Loans & Lending
- Data Analytics
- User Research
Hurom Juicers
- eCommerce
- Responsive Layout
- Art Direction
- Health & Wellness
- Responsive
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Infographics
- Home Electronics
- Retail & Wholesale
- Luxury
New York Times Store
- Pitch Presentations
- Concepting
- Art Direction
- Media
- News Publications
- Retail & Wholesale
- Editorial Design
- eCommerce
- UI Design
CA Technologies
- SaaS Design
- Design Systems
- Product Design
- Mobile Applications
- IT Security
- Technology Consulting
- iPad
- iOS
- Mobile
- Infographics
- Style Guides
Jeep
- Automotive
- Infographics
- Pitch Presentations
- Art Direction
- Web UX
- Banners
- Campaign Design
- Basketball
- Sports & Athletics
Birchbox
- Startups
- Beauty Products
- eCommerce
- Product Design
- Retail & Wholesale
- Art Direction
- Mobile UI
- Fashion
Corde
- Fashion
- Startups
- Responsive
- Charity
- eCommerce
- UI Design
- Web UX
- Art Direction
- Product Launches
- Shopify
- Responsive Design
Gevalia Coffee
- eCommerce Design
- Consumer Package Goods
- Pitch Presentations
- Concept Art
- User Experience (UX)
- Art Direction
- Concepting
The X Factor
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Visual Merchandising
- Mobile
- Android
- App UI
- App UX
- Art Direction
- TV Shows
- eCommerce

Employment

Contract Visual Design Lead
2019 - PRESENT
BlackRock
- Worked with a team of developers, UX designers, and visual designers on the Aladdin platform.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Contract Design Lead
2018 - PRESENT
FactSet
- Worked with a team of UX and visual designers in FactSet’s product development department to create a new design system.
- Directed the team in developing mood boards and concept screens.
- Helped user test three concepts with 500 people in the financial industry.
- Designed several screens, states and components at various breakpoints to create responsive desktop and mobile templates.
- Defined style guide elements and created 40+ atoms and components in both light and dark themes.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Co-founder + Head of Product Design, UI/UX
2010 - PRESENT
Sein Analytics
- Developed the design and UX of Sein's FinTech SaaS products.
- Helped launch Sein’s product for analyzing asset-backed securities.
- Designed UI/UX of Sein’s new product for whole loan trading and analysis.
- Created all marketing materials for the company and represented the company at conferences, competitions, and meetings with potential customers, partners, and investors.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Keynote, InDesign
Freelance Art/Creative Director
2002 - PRESENT
Various Agencies including McCann, Publicis, Droga5, JWT, Rapp, Digitas, FCB and Frog
- Analyzed current needs working closely with clients.
- Managed both large and small design teams.
- Conducted user research, develop concepts, print collateral, user experience, visual design, videos and animations for applications, websites, mobile devices, and interactive television.
- Agencies included: McCann, Publicis, Greater Than One, Cake & Arrow, the Lab, Droga5, 360i, Digitas, Rapp, Organic, Magnani Caruso Dutton, The Barbarian Group, Fluid, JWT, Tribal DDB, Creative Feed, TeamDigital, Jetset Studios, Juxt Interactive, C2 Creative, Razorfish, FCB, Attik, Ultra16, RDA International, Frog, Picture Projects, and Medienwerft.
- Clients included: HPE, Samsung, American Express, Tempur-Pedic, Makeup Alley, Baptist Health, Coty Beauty, Amgen, Reckitt Benckiser, Kraft Foods, JCPenney, E*Trade, Tally Weijl, Hilton, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Plantronics, JetBlue, Godiva, Merck, Guinness, Warner Brothers, Neutrogena, Sunsilk, Aveda, Vanity Fair, Conde' Nast, MTV, IFC, Motorola, Office of National Drug Control Policy, AOL, AMC, Nivea, the BBC, GlaxoSmithKline, and Gruner & Jahr.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Associate Creative Director
2018 - 2018
Frog
- Directed a team of UX and visual designers, developing features for a BNY Mellon wealth management SaaS application.
- Presented all work to the client.
- Participated in technical calls and reviewed and maintained quality of all design deliverables.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin
Freelance Creative Director + Design Lead
2010 - 2018
TandemSeven
- Worked closely with clients and presented and implemented creative direction for digital platforms, SaaS applications, websites, print collateral and mobile devices.
- Conducted competitive analysis, created mood boards, defined and designed templates and created components and style guides for complex design systems.
- Managed development of design direction including colors, icons, typography, concept ideation and visual design.
- Collaborated with UX, design and development teams using an agile process.
- Clients included: J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, US Bank, Point72, Fidelity, State Street, Natixis, Associated Bank, M&T Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Humana, and Allstate.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Freelance Senior Product Designer
2015 - 2015
Birchbox
- Developed desktop and mobile versions of a Build Your Own Box module to make the shopping experience more customized.
- Worked closely with the marketing team to develop several templates that made creating landing pages for new brands, events and customer outreach easier.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Art Director & Product Designer
2012 - 2013
Hot Studio (acquired by Facebook)
- Worked with a team of UX and visual designers to create an Extensible Design Language and help CA Technologies move towards a SaaS model.
- Translated CA's design system to various SaaS and mobile products.
- Designed uAlign, a native iOS and web app for the enterprise e-learning space, working with Ancile Technologies.
- Clients included: Ancile Technologies, CA Technologies, and Mitre.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Art Director
2012 - 2012
Largetail/Cool Hunting
- Worked with the design team for a boutique agency started by the people behind Coolhunting.com.
- Developed and designed concepts for Jeep, Bombay Sapphire, Timberland, New Balance and British Airways.
- Helped Largetail win new business with Jeep, New Balance and British Airways based on my design concepts and then helped them build websites and banner campaigns for Jeep and British Airways.
- Clients included: MasterCard, Jeep, Bombay Sapphire, Timberland, New Balance, and British Airways.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Art Director
2011 - 2012
Sony Music
- Created websites, landing pages, banners or other digital and print marketing for more than 40 artists including Christina Aguilera, Jimi Hendrix, Adele, Britney Spears, JCole, T-Pain, and Jordin Sparks.
- Helped develop digital promotional needs for the launch of the X Factor, including creating an android mobile app sponsored by Verizon, various artist sites, merchandising ideas for the X Factor store and print materials.
- The X Factor work went on to win Cannes and Webby awards.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Designer
2004 - 2012
McKinsey & Company
- Created logo, design direction, 20+ templates, and a style guide for McKinsey Connect, an internal workflow application built on an IBM platform.
- Redesigned the UX and visual design of the Alumni website.
- Created several animated features for the McKinsey Global Institute and main McKinsey websites.
- Designed prototypes for the firm's next generation Intranet.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Art Director
2008 - 2010
Havas Worldwide
- Designed templates for the launch of the volvocars.com global website, which won an Interactive Media Award and OMMA Award for best Automobile website.
- Created brand identity, design direction and created various website templates for several GlaxoSmithKline branded and unbranded websites.
- The Asthma.com website went on to win an Interactive Media Award and W3 Award for outstanding achievement in healthcare.
- Clients included: Volvo, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Charles Schwab, and Heineken.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Adjunct Professor
2009 - 2009
Fashion Institute of Technology
- Taught an interface design class to first year Bachelors Degree students.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Creative Director
2009 - 2009
Scholz & Friends Berlin
- Managed a 20+ team of writers, developers and user experience and visual designers.
- Presented 360 campaign concepts including digital, social, print and TV ideas to clients including Logitech, the Berlin Philharmonic, German Cancer Aid, and the Berlin Labor Department.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Associate Creative Director
2007 - 2008
Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners
- Responsible for concept ideation, visual design, and UX/interaction design.
- Worked closely with account directors and producers to maintain quality of all design work.
- Presented team ideas to the client.
- Clients included: BMW, Wendy's, Panasonic, Don Julio, Classic Malts, CIT, Cablevision, and NetJets.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Associate Creative Director
2006 - 2007
Story Worldwide
- Managed design teams and created the interaction design, concept, and visual look and feel of projects.
- Worked closely with account and project management to develop strategies, present work to the client and ensure overall quality of design deliverables.
- Clients included A&E Networks, Coty Beauty, and Unilever.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Adjunct Professor
2005 - 2006
New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
- Taught web and multimedia design classes.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Senior Art Director
2005 - 2005
Arc Worldwide
- Led design teams and created art direction and UI/UX of websites, digital marketing, and animations/videos.
- Created art direction, then animated and edited videos of athletes, sponsored by Kellog's, for the winter Olympics. Videos were part of the "Earn Your Stripes" campaign and were promoted on the Frosted Flakes website.
- Designed digital marketing and animated banners for various Cadillac campaigns.
- Helped with redesign of the Levis website, created design and animation for a section about Levi's history.
- Assisted in creating brand pages for Diageo's TheBar.com. The website went on to win a Web Marketing Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development.
- Clients included: Cadillac, Levis, Diageo, Aflac, Kellogg's, and Levis.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia
Senior Designer
2001 - 2002
Fork Unstable Media
- Directed design teams, creating the user experience and visual design of projects.
- Collaborated with the New Business Department to develop proposals.
- Worked with Gruner & Jahr to redesign three different magazine sites including the German version of Parents (Eltern.de) and two leading women's magazines.
- Clients included Nivea, Samsung, Gruner & Jahr and Chicks on Speed.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia
Adjunct Professor
2001 - 2001
Art Center at Night
- Co-taught class about the design and development of online media.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Information Architect
1999 - 2001
Razorfish
- Started the Information Architecture department of the Hamburg, Germany office.
- Collaborated with teams as a Lead Information Architect developing concepts, site maps, user flows and wireframes.
- Clients included: RTL Networks, Audi, HypoVereinsbank, McKinsey & Company, and Dell Computers.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Design Intern
1998 - 1998
Corey McPherson Nash
- Assisted graphic designers with corporate identity, print and interactive projects.
- Clients included: Harvard University and Cushing Academy.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia

Education

Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications
2003 - 2005
New York University - New York, NY
Bachelor's degree in Communication Design
1995 - 1999
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
Study abroad credit towards my Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design
1997 - 1997
Die Schule fuer Gestaltung - St. Gallen, Switzerland

Experience

Wireframing20 years
UX Design20 years
Web UI20 years
Interaction Design (IxD)20 years
Art Direction18 years
Digital Creative Direction15 years
SaaS Design10 years
Fintech9 years

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