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

Brian Pinkney
10+
Years leading teams
6+
Industry Awards Won
8
Business Sectors Served
20+
Countries & Markets
Sectors
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



