Clifford Curry

About Clifford Curry

I am a seasoned designer, strategist, and manager with 15+ years of experience. After designing and building innovative products for YouTube, including the iOS app, the living room experience, and a music subscription, I now focus on building healthy diverse design and research teams. My passion is mining research and crafting user-driven product narratives that excite designers, PMs, and engineers to build safe, delightful, empowering technology.

Experience

1. Sr Staff Design Manager

   YouTube

   Apr 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   11/2024 - present] Sr Staff Design Manager YouTube Live[4/2021- 11/2024] Responsible for developing first-ever generative AI safety principles and mechanisms for emerging Creator and consumer feature set.Grew my design team from 3 to 8 in 1 year establishing rituals to ensure quality and build connection for bi-coastal team and international partner teams.Conceived and developed Safety by Design educational materials and UI patterns adopted by YouTube product feature teams.

Education

• UCLA

  B.A., Art History

Skills

• Css
• Design Management
• Product Strategy
• Creative Direction
• Online Advertising
• Flash
• Front-End
• Web Development
• Project Management
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Interaction Design
• Photography
• Information Architecture
• Digital Strategy
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Illustration
• User Experience
• Heuristic Evaluation
• E-Commerce
• Graphic Design
• Xhtml
• Art Direction
• Usability
• User Interface Design
• Information Design
• Web Design