charles klein

About Charles, In Brief

Born and raised in California, Charles earned his Bachelor's in Studio Art, Graphic Design at Humboldt State University. He also studied Computer Science, Marketing and Biology.

Charles has more than a decade's worth of experience designing and building high-end interfaces across the web and iOS. He has three highly rated apps on the App Store with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has created award winning high traffic marketing sites for a California State University, and is now crafting a new e-commerce brand experience from scratch as part of the high tech innovation arm of the world's largest retailer.

The Goodies Company logo Currently, Charles leads User Experience Design for The Goodies Company, Walmart Inc's first foray into subscription shopping.

Bloomberg TV: WalmartLabs: The Valley Startup Inside Walmart
VentureBeat: With Goodies, Walmart enters the subscription box business and tries to be a tastemaker

The Work

A selection of work is available at portfolio.charlesklein.org. Resumé and recommendations are available on LinkedIn.

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Skillset

infographic depicting my design skills, web, mobile and graphic
infographic depicting my developer skills, html/css, iOS, PHP and jquery
infographic depicting my product skills, creative direction, brand development, wireframes, flows and personas

Recognition

Past Publication

A conversation with social networking site Ning.com about social networking for college admissions. Engaging freshmen before and after arrival at Humboldt, December 2009.

Past contributor to AdBusters magazine interviewed about the innovative new service, Twitter. Text Me All About Yourself in issue #72, July/August 2007.

Past Exhibition

Cronyism, 2005 displayed in the graphics of pro•pa•gan•da show at the First Street Gallery in Eureka, CA. October 3 - November 2, 2008