Bob Corporaal
Design Principal at CLEVER°FRANKE
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBob Corporaal is a Design Principal with 15+ years of experience turning complex data into engaging visual products and experiences, currently leading design strategy and team growth at CLEVER°FRANKE. He blends deep design craft with product, business and technical fluency to bridge people and technology, helping clients like Google, Bloomberg and The New York Times extract insight from complexity. A proven people leader, he has scaled and matured design practices—from growing Coolblue’s UX team and research cadence to founding CLEVER°FRANKE’s US presence in Chicago. His background in aerospace engineering and early research work informs a systems-oriented approach to data visualization and interaction design. He thrives in multidisciplinary teams, pairing creative coding and visual art sensibilities with rigorous UX research and prototyping. Notably, he founded Rotterdam’s UX Cocktail Hour, cultivating a 1,600+ member community that reflects his commitment to design culture and knowledge sharing.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Post graduate course Japanese Business & Language studies, Post graduate course Japanese Business & Language studies at Leiden UniversityMaster's Degree Aerospace engineering, Master's Degree Aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (25)
kirby10
fonts9
p5js9
typeface9
generative-art9
opentype8
cms8
monitoring7
react6
svg6
fine-tuning6
meteor4
graphql4
plugin4
cocktail3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bcorporaal/Udon-mono
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:14 releases, 62 pushes, 12 tags in 2 years 6 months
bcorporaal/Bentobox
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
A simple theme to organize links using the Kirby CMS
Contributions:11 releases, 143 commits, 72 PRs in 6 years 4 months
cmskirbykirby-cms
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