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
我叫Clark MacLeod，中文名字「克拉克」，來自加拿大愛德華王子島。
我在台灣和中國生活工作了二十多年。那段時間裡，我成為了父親（兩個孩子都在台灣出生），學會了中文，也深深愛上了這片土地和那裡的人們。
為了學好中文，我曾在國立中央大學華語系就讀三年。雖然現在回到加拿大後中文能力已經退步很多，但那段學習經歷和在亞洲工作生活的日子依然是我人生中最寶貴的回憶。
在台灣和中國的二十年間，我從事使用者體驗設計和產品設計工作，幫助過許多大型企業、新創公司和政府機構。我也在國立交通大學應用藝術研究所取得了碩士學位。
現在，我和妻子Sheryl回到了愛德華王子島，我們共同創立了Sleep Tight Media，專門為兒童和家庭製作睡前故事播客。我們的節目已被全球超過150個國家的家庭下載了八千萬次以上。
從音樂表演到產品設計，再到兒童故事創作——我的職業生涯看似跨度很大，但其實核心都是一樣的：用心聆聽，理解人們真正需要什麼，然後創造能夠幫助他們的東西。