I'm Max McKinney. A designer, engineer, and big 'ol nerd. I love to tinker and build with all things web technology based, extend and modify software, and build classic cars. I'm currently a principal designer at Figma.
I specialize in product design architecture and thrive in undefined problem spaces. My personal background is in user experience, product development, design systems, and design leadership.
Design Engineer · Figma
Redesigned and rebuilt the Figma Help Center using modern tools and custom scalable authoring systems for Zendesk, pushing its capabilities further than ever before. Led frontend development, created custom educational components, and enabled content teams to deliver better, faster.
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Design Lead · IBM
Created and lead a team of multidisciplinary designers (ux, visual, research, frontend) to create delightful and engaging user experiences in IBM's Security Risk Manager.
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Senior UI/UX Designer · Sureshot
Lead the overall direction of Sureshot's product ecosystem experiences and created the Sureshot UI design language. Built a powerful collection of micro-interactions to be reused across the ecosystem. Lead the discovery effort for Sureshot's user personas. Defined user needs, hills, and product experience roadmaps. Interfaced with existing and future clients to continue user need definitions and provide iterative experiences via Sureshot's SAAS architecture.
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UI/UX Designer & Frontend Dev · Dell
UI/UX designer and web developer for Dell's Clarity Design Language. Clarity is an enterprise worthy design system.
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Principal Educational Designer · Figma
Figma's first educational designer. Lead the content research and design efforts for Figma's educational content (courses, videos, playground files) within the Product Education team and acted as a subject matter expert. Created and maintained an internal design education course, and built unique/interactive learning surfaces for users.
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UI/UX Designer · Alienware
UI/UX designer on the award winning Alienware Command Center. Created a robust and researched design language for this product and future Alienware experiences. Defined and researched user needs. Established usability and experience criteria.
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Senior UI/UX Designer · Sureshot
Directed and designed the rebrand of corporate Sureshot. Designed and created the Sureshot website. Utilized self-created persona definitions and user needs to tailor the content with a resulting increase of sales.
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UI/UX Designer · Dell
Built future looking designs and outlined product visions for enterprise and consumer software.
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