About

For over 30 years I have worked with organizations to help them build software, websites, music, and other digital products that work for real people.

I’m a maker, love my craft, and enjoy working with others to realize a products vision. I have extensive international experience, working in a variety of roles, with diverse, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural teams.

Currently I am involved with a couple projects:

Minzoo, a “small-batch” product design studio, creating educational products that bring joy to families around the world. We are on a mission to make children’s mobile time, quality time, by making playful tools that engage and inspire children’s senses.

Sleep Tight Media, an independent producer of calming podcasts for children and their families. Our podcasts have been downloaded millions of times by fans all over the world. We help take away the struggle that parents often experience at sleep time, by providing educating and calming entertainment that children look forward to; helping to make families happier and healthier. Our goal is to help improve the health and happiness of kids worldwide – to help them flourish as human beings. We love what we do.

Previously I was the manager of experience design at NetDragon Websoft, in Fuzhou, China, where I lead the experience innovation team, helping to advance the quality of experience design at the User Experience Design Centre.

Prior to that I worked in a number of design leadership and non-leadership roles, including The Industrial Technology Research Institutes (ITRI) Creativity Lab where I helped create digital and physical products that allowed for greater collaboration amongst researchers, and led projects that explored an array of ambient and tangible interfaces, invisibly integrating data into people’s lives.

In a past life, I worked as a professional musician, sometimes making music, more often making noise, through-out the greater Toronto area.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in Music from St. Francis Xavier University and a Master of Applied Art from Chiao Tung University. I also spent 3 years at Humber College of Music where I studied trumpet and jazz performance. I studied Chinese full-time at National Central University, Tsing Hua University, and privately for over 4 years.

After many years working in Taiwan, China and region, I have recently returned to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where I live with my wife, daughter, and son.

See what I am up to this month

自我介紹

我有著24年的經驗幫助各類組織製作應用、網頁、音 樂、提升使用者體驗、以及開發其他幫助人們實現其 目標的數碼產品。

我是一個製造者,我愛我的手藝,並樂於同其他人一 同努力實現產品目標。 我有著豐富經驗,能夠適應在 工作中扮演不同的角色。

我叫Clark MacLeod,中文名字「克拉克」,來自加拿大愛德華王子島。我跟家人住在台灣有20年左右了,我有兩個孩子,都是在臺灣出生的。

我畢業於St. Francis Xavier大學音樂系,之後又去讀了Humber大學音樂表演系,通過這八年的學習,使我深具創意和想像力方面的才能。來到台灣以後,我又去了國立交通大學應用藝術研究所繼續深造,學術論文內容是關於實體介面和氛圍介面,通過進一步的學習,使我更深入的了解了當代設計與研究的發展趨勢。另外,我還曾就讀于國立中央大學華語系兩年之久,國語水平因此得到了很大的提高。

我具有二十五年以上創造性工作經驗,早年從事過包括音樂表演、藝術展覽、設計研究、文字編輯、程序設計員以及視覺界面設計等方面的工作,目前我在做手機軟件設計、手機文化發展趨勢的調研分析工作和在一家當地公司研發部門裡面改善我們軟體使用者經驗。

我性格沉穩,做事認真細緻,具備優秀的團隊協作精神及高度的職業責任感;專業方面,亦有深厚的設計功底,較高的藝術修養,超俗的審美能力,並對設計與創新有濃厚的熱情。

我具有良好人際交往能力,良好幽默感以及善於與他人合作。歡迎隨時聯絡:clark@clarkmacleod.com.

擅長工具

Adobe、CodaOmniGraffleSketchPixelmatorBBedit、jQuery、PHP、HTML/CSS、Movabletype、等等。

工作技能

創意及藝術指導、使用者介面設計、網站開發、項目經理、寫作創新樂譜、數位攝影技巧、使用者測試(Usability test)、Persona、Scenerio、Information Architecture、Card Sorting、用戶界面設計、啟發式評估、快速原型、社交媒體、概念發展、內容管理、等等。