Erin Clark

San Diego, CA, 92103 | 303 961 8857 | erinxclark@gmail.com

Senior Motion Designer

Award-winning designer with more than six years of experience delivering high-quality motion design related to product goals and marketing videos. Develop and deliver coherent motion assets and systems. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration by partnering with designers, researchers, engineers, content strategists, and product managers to leverage new technologies that drive user-centered design. Passionate about storyboarding visualizations of new technologies and use cases. Master of simplifying complex interactions to solve challenging design problems. Experience defining and implementing brand motion design language.

Intuit, San Diego, CA | Senior Motion Designer / Design Technologist 11/2017 – Present 

Deliver animations for product and marketing materials, large internal meetings, and external events such as trade shows. Perform rapid prototyping, mimicking product experience to secure year-round user testing while partnering with research partners. Assist in construction of internal tools to help visual and interaction designers build high-fidelity future facing prototypes and make research-driven design decisions. Research and promote emerging technologies for design studio and Intuit products. Work cross platform on motion design language for Intuit Assist as well as Intuit Design Systems.

  • UX Design: Recognized with 2021 Webby Award for “Mercury” user experience redesign of personal finance app, Mint. 

  • User Interface Design : Earned 2024 Webby Award nomination for TurboTax motion assets.

  • Saved days of dev time by facilitating teamwide effort to migrate from GSAP to more lightweight and responsive animation format, Lottie. Improved products’ user friendliness and lightened file size of animations.

  • Saved potential months of design and engineering time by resolving consistent issue of blurriness with Lottie animations on Google Chrome. Scoured forums and analyzed dev tool data, discovering that Chrome was erroneously trying to load assets as 3D graphics. Collaborated with dev team to implement code-based change to stop this process on page load.

  • Facilitated communication between cross functional design team leads and engineering teams in Intuit wide motion design language.

  • Delivered successful year-end financial wrap-up for Mint, eliminating excess screens and saving expensive dev hours by balancing Lottie animations with code-based motion with quick ideation-to-implementation sprint.

Miva Inc., San Diego, CA | Web Developer 02/2017 – 11/2017

Developed custom mobile-/tablet-first e-commerce sites with high degrees of reliability, responsiveness, performance, and usability. Performed quality assurance tasks such as code reviews, integrations, and performance tests. Forged productive relationships with clients via spoken/written communication.

Media Reps, San Diego, CA | Web Developer 03/2016 – 02/2017

Gathered and refined specifications based on technical needs. Wrote, updated, and debugged testable and efficient code for various projects. Streamlined script generation process to enable continuous integration. Created and maintained software documentation.