I’m Micah Tinklepaugh, a principal UX designer with 12 years of experience in mobile, web, and emerging technology — designing for environments where the stakes are real and the people affected by design decisions actually depend on them.
These portfolio pieces are samples I’ve brought back from design missions with real world impact.
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Electric Power Research Institute
Designed a structured field inspection system replacing fragmented paper workflows with a compliant, traceable digital capture pipeline at the Electric Power Research Institute.
View Case Study →Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Work performed at a federally funded research and development center. No sensitive artifacts are shown.
Redesigned an enterprise risk assessment platform — reducing intake complexity through conditional progressive disclosure, automating legal document delivery, and establishing a design system later adopted across the lab. In parallel, built one of the lab’s first compliant AI applications: a geospatial pipeline that transformed static mission documents into interactive spatial artifacts without ever exposing sensitive data.
View Case Study →Concept Work
A design concept exploring what it would mean for a major league sports franchise to lead in spatial computing. Rooted in a 2014 project redesigning ESPN’s Fantasy Football experience for mobile — this version asks a harder question: what happens when the stadium itself becomes the interface? Designed to provoke a conversation about where AR and wearable computing are headed in live sports contexts, and what interaction models need to exist before the hardware catches up.
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