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Design Leader · Experience Strategist · Service Designer

Brian

Pinkney

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RECENT WORK

Projects across service design, experience strategy, AI, innovation, and design capability building, each with measurable impact.

About
Brian Pinkney

Brian Pinkney

10+

Years leading teams

6+

Industry Awards Won

8

Business Sectors Served

20+

Countries & Markets

Sectors

B2B & EnterpriseRetail & GroceryE-commerceSupply Chain & LogisticsHealthcareFinancial ServicesCPGAdvertising & Marketing

IMAGINE.
CREATE.
EXPERIENCE.

I'm a design leader and experience strategist with 20+ years in product design, user experience, and strategy. Over that time I've worked with dozens of companies and brands across healthcare, retail, advertising, and innovation consulting, most recently leading experience work at Kroger, with prior roles at Cardinal Health and Grey. I'm a bit of a Swiss army knife. I design what people see, but I also design the systems behind it: the people, processes, and decisions that shape how an experience actually feels.

Right now I'm focused on the evolving relationship between humans and AI. I'm especially interested in Agentic Experience Design, moving past chatbots toward AI systems that act with intent, transparency, and real utility, with humans firmly in the driver's seat. I think a lot about the UX of delegation, the feedback loops that build trust between people and agents, and what 'Responsible AI' looks like when it's designed in from the start instead of bolted on at the end.

I like the unglamorous detail. The hand-off between teams that quietly breaks a customer's trust. The data model that decides what a frontline worker can actually see. The back-of-stage process that creates the experience a user never notices but always feels. I'm comfortable in a service blueprint, a stakeholder boardroom, a Figma file, or a terminal running Claude Code.

AI & Emerging Tech

  • Agentic Experience Design
  • UX for AI
  • Responsible AI Frameworks
  • AI Strategy (MIT / Wharton certified)
  • Human-AI Interaction Patterns

Service Design

  • Service Blueprinting
  • Journey Mapping
  • Ecosystem Mapping
  • Co-design Facilitation
  • Systems Thinking

Research & Strategy

  • Discovery & User Research
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Experience Strategy
  • Data-Driven Design
  • KPI & Metrics Strategy

Design & Craft

  • UX / UI Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Figma (Advanced)
  • Design Systems at Scale
  • Rapid Prototyping

Build & Tooling

  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • Figma-to-Code Workflows

Leadership & Ops

  • Product Design Leadership
  • Team Management & Mentorship
  • Workshop Facilitation (LUMA certified)
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Design Operations

Education & Recognition

BBA, Marketing — Ohio University

Human-Centered Design Practitioner — LUMA Institute

AI: Implications for Business Strategy — MIT Sloan School of Management

AI Strategy and Governance — University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

AI for Product Management Specialization — Duke University

Agentic AI for Leadership — Virginia Tech

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LET'S BUILD

SOMETHING

Location

Cincinnati, OH

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