Joel Meine

About Joel Meine

Principal Designer | Customer Experience Leader | Product Strategist | Creative TechnologistI’m a creative leader with 30 years of experience shaping intelligent systems through experience design grounded in craft, artistic vision, and technical strategy. My roots are in fine art & interface design—evolving into leadership roles across UI, UX, and CX in complex environments, from early-stage startups to global consumer brands and more recently, autonomous robotic AgTech systems.Tools change—my focus doesn’t: make complex concepts feel simple, & smart systems feel human.Craft-led. Experience-driven. Code-aware. Always designing for clarity- Experience Design & Strategy - User Experience (UX) & User Interface (UI) Design- Customer Experience (CX) Leadership- Design Systems Creation & Maintenance- High & Low-Fidelity Prototyping (Web, Mobile, PWA)- Native Android & iOS Design- Responsive & Cross-Platform UI Architecture- Needs Analysis, User Testing & Research- Brand Identity Systems & Visual Standards- Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design- Creative Direction & Cross-Functional Team Leadership- HTML, CSS, Blazor, MudBlazor, VS Code, Sublime Text, Brackets, HomeBrew, Azure DevOps, GitHub- Creative Visual Design - Illustration (Digital & Traditional)- Interactive & Print Creative Direction- Art Direction & Creative Group Management- Photography & Composite Editing- Licensed Merchandise & Apparel Design- Marketing & Advertising Campaigns- Omni-Channel E-Commerce Experience Design- Corporate Collateral & Branded Visual Systems- Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Penpot, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Lucidchart, Balsamiq, Office 365, Google Workspace, Discord, Teams, Slack, Smartsheet, Notion- Computer Vision & ML Pipeline Design - Model Training Data Workflow Design- Object Detection & Image Classification- Instance Segmentation: Object Attributes & Relationships- Ontology Modeling & Semantic Scene Understanding- Annotation Systems, AI-Assisted Annotation & Data Labeling Strategy- Edge Runtime CV Systems & Offline Vision Pipelines- Ramblr.ai, StereoLabs, YOLO, OpenCV, NVIDIA Jetson- Generative AI & Emerging Tools - Generative AI Image Workflows (Creative & CV Training)- Prompt-Based Design Systems (e.g, Cursor, Cline)- Image Sensor & Lighting Optimization for Data Collection- AI-Driven UI Prototyping & Design-to-Code Pipelines- Data Preparation for ML/CV + Visual Ontology Alignment- ChatGPT, Midjourney, Invoke, Roo Code, Design to Code MCP, Veo, Gemini, Firefly, Udio, Flow

Experience

1. Senior User Experience and Customer Experience Designer & Strategist

   Harvest Croo Robotics

   Mar 2018 — Present · Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL, US

   Principal UX/UI/CX, art direction, marketing, branding and full-stack design for omni-channel Harvest CROO Robotics systems including: robotics control systems, mapping, waypoint and autonomous driving management/visualization, fleet management, diagnostic systems, and big/deep-data analytics and visualization features.Harvest CROO Robotics is a US-based robotics firm, focused on revolutionizing the agricultural industry with automation and big data analytic insights- AGTech, Agricultural Tech, Agricultural Robotics, Automation, Vision AI, Machine Learning, Agribusiness

Skills

• Css
• Digital Strategy
• Globalization
• Web Development
• Wordpress
• Customer Experience Design
• Web Design
• Illustration
• Interaction Design
• Photography
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Flash
• Interactive Design
• User Experience
• Axure
• User Experience Design
• Online Advertising
• Html5
• Adobe Xd - Experience Design
• Graphics
• Workflow Diagrams
• Usability
• Photoshop
• Art Direction
• Voice of the Customer
• User Interface Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Logo Design
• Music Industry
• Corporate Identity
• Html
• User-Centered Design
• Marketing
• Responsive Web Design
• Javascript
• Html 5
• User Interface
• Customer Experience
• Creative Direction