David Robinson

David Robinson

Heading up MySpace Mobile Experience

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Heading up Mobile Experience at MySpace
  • Board Advisor at Strutta
  • Board of Advisors at Coloroot
Past
  • Experience Designer at Nokia
  • Chief Pixel Thief at Yahoo!
  • UX Creative Director Social and Personalization at AOL
  • Design Manager / UED at Yahoo!
  • Managing Art Director at Intuit
  • Design Director at Netscape/AOL
  • Creative Director at Spinway
  • Art Director at Omnet Technology
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David Robinson’s Summary

David has over 10 years of experience leading Design, Product and User Experience for some of the Web’s most preeminent brands. He currently designs experiences at Nokia. Previously he was the Chief Pixel Thief Yahoo! where he worked with the Yahoo! Open Application group designing an open platform to let application developers develop and deploy applications across Yahoo! and then bring them out to the Web at large. David has also held design leadership roles at AOL and Intuit and sits on the advisory board of several startup companies.

Splitting his time between Boston and Palo Alto, David can usually be reached at seat 5A on Virgin America Flight #351.

David Robinson’s Specialties:

User Experience, Product Design, Interaction Design, User Interface, Design, Graphic Design, Brand Development, Product Strategy, Design Management, Creative and Art Direction


David Robinson’s Experience

  • Heading up Mobile Experience

    MySpace

    (Public Company; NWS; Internet industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

  • Board Advisor

    Strutta

    (Internet industry)

    May 2007Present (2 years 7 months)

  • Board of Advisors

    Coloroot

    (Design industry)

    February 2007Present (2 years 10 months)

  • Experience Designer

    Nokia

    (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2009October 2009 (10 months)

  • Chief Pixel Thief

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

    June 2008January 2009 (8 months)

  • UX Creative Director Social and Personalization

    AOL

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

    May 2006June 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  • Design Manager / UED

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

    June 2003May 2006 (3 years )

  • Managing Art Director

    Intuit

    (Public Company; INTU; Computer Software industry)

    July 2003July 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  • Design Director

    Netscape/AOL

    (Public Company; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

    January 2000June 2003 (3 years 6 months)

  • Creative Director

    Spinway

    (Internet industry)

    February 1998January 2000 (2 years )

  • Art Director

    Omnet Technology

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

    February 1996January 1998 (2 years )


Additional Information

David Robinson’s Websites:

David Robinson’s Groups:

  •    ExMozilla
  •    AOLAlumni
  •    Intuit Alumni Community
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Facebook.com
  •    Yahoo Alums
  •    Design Thinking
  •    UX Professionals
  •    Nokia Alumni
  •    VizThink
  •    Refresh - Promoting design, technology,and usability.
  •    Yahoo Employees
  •    Mobile Applications 'n' Design
  •    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
  •    User Experience
  •    AOL CONNECTIONS
  •    DreamDesigners
  •    MOTODEV
  •    Leading UX & UI professional Network
  •    The Color Association
  •    Social Game Developers

David Robinson’s Contact Settings

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  • new ventures
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