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.
Truist Financial
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.
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Three workstreams whose data can’t be shown but the design thinking can be reimagined the moon.
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 document delivery, and establishing a design system for adoption across the organization. In parallel, developed an AI-assisted geospatial pipeline that transformed static source documents into interactive spatial artifacts, with AI operating only at the task level — sequencing approved tools, never processing the underlying data directly. The analogous project below, completed at Virginia Commonwealth University, shows how the same design thinking applies to a novel domain: the moon.
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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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