Leah Roberts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (10+ years)
FREELANCE & FRACTIONAL
Lead User Experience & Interface Designer
Oct 2024 - present
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Embedded as Lead Product Designer in the following early-stage teams -​
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SENDY.io – Outdoor Gear Marketplace | e-commerce - C2C
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Led design of a new shopping cart experience where none previously existed
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Designed homepage structure to balance buying, selling, renting, and community involvement
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Created gear listing components, filters, and profile features with a focus on trust and clarity
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Built responsive designs in Figma for web and mobile, guiding overall UI direction
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Wisary.ai – AI Native Document Tool for Product Teams | Confluence App - B2B & B2C
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Designed end-to-end UX for generating PRDs, user stories, and project docs via AI
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Created flows for refining AI content and guiding users through structured inputs
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Supported Jira integration and multi-step document creation inside Confluence
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Love Saro – Permanent Custom Jewelry | e-commerce - B2C
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Designed product discovery experience
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Designed luxury-feeling collection pages, PDPs, and permanent jewelry booking flows
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Optimizing the digital experience
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Paramean – Reinsurance Analytics Platform | InsurTech - B2B
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Designed UI for viewing and interpreting complex financial and risk data
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Built robust prototype for demos with 25+ data visualizations across three product sections
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Structured dashboards to support actuarial workflows, with clean visual hierarchy and interaction standards
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CalDrop.ai – AI Native Calendar Formatting Tool | Productivity Lifestyle Tool - B2C
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Designed lightweight tool for turning freeform schedules into useable calendar events
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Built intuitive input table and single-click public link feature
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Developed UI system that balances clarity, speed, and zero-friction setup
AI Native Tools, e-commerce, Data Viz
< 10 employees
B2B | B2C | C2C
VF CORPORATION contract
UX Digital Consumer Product Designer
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
I worked concurrently on three brands: Altra Running, Dickies, and Smartwool​
Deliverables:
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Three new design systems in Figma
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Updated designs to meet a11y guidelines
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Improved behavior for the user when they are navigating between pages
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Created and tested prototypes for an improved checkout experience
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Listened to user feedback via User Testing and presented my findings and recommendations
Apparel, Footwear, & Accessories
10,000+ employees
B to C
EXPERT TECHNICAL SKILLS
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe XD
Figma
Miro
User Testing
EDUCATION
Design Thinking
Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Certificate
Scrum master (CSM)
Rally Software - Boulder, CO
Certificate
Bachelor of Art
University of Central Florida
BA
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Kit Silvers
(770) 601-2705
Ala Stolpnik
(347) 541-7775
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Hilary Flygare
307-389-7823
MY INFORMATION
www.LeahBethRoberts.me
LeahBethRoberts@gmail.com
502-435-4065
Boulder, CO
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
City of Boulder
Beverage Licensing Authority
Board Chair: 2022-current
Louisville Grows
Co-founder| 2010-2014
TRANSAMERICA contract
Sr. Digital Experience Designer (UX/UI)
March 2023 - Dec 2023​
Deliverables:
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Designed an intuitive digital journey for users to make online contributions to their IRAs
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Pointed out a gap, defended, and got to design a global experience to fill the gap
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Updated a heavily used pages for the workplace experience; these complicated pages are unique and dependent on the user’s permission level and their dynamic input
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Figma: successfully met design team requirements, participated in creating and documenting design-team governance, contributed to the internal library structure
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Participated in defining requirements with stakeholders, engineering, and design
Financial Brokerage
10,000+ employees
B to C and B to B
ETA VISION
UX/UI User Experience Design and Research
2018-2022
Deliverables:
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Created and maintained a modern user interface and user experience for viewing any kind of, and a lot of data
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Created the internal design system using Adobe Creative Suite
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Wrote all of the governance for the design library
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Held user studies and provided suggestions based on the data
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Studied micro-interactions within data visualization
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Helped define the direction of the product by creating and presenting concepts
Data Visualization
under 15 employees
B to B
GLASS DREAMS
Owner | Artist
2006-2016
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Incorporated and sustained a business for 10 years, supplying over 45 stores nationally through interstate commerce.
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Designed, marketed, and sold profitable glass product lines in a very competitive marketplace.
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Prepared teaching material and lead instructional glass blowing classes on-site. Designed program and course structure, graduated students and provided proper follow-up.
Retail and Interstate
Commerce
B to C and B to B
INDUSTRY SKILLS
User Experience
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Competitive analysis
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Human centered design
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Rapid prototyping
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Design thinking - business
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User flows
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Wireframing
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Information Architecture
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Observation
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Usability studies
More User Experience
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Accessibility design
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User management design
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Workplace design
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User empathy
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Ideation iterations
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Designing and presenting concepts
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Mobile-first design
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Responsive design
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Detail and micro-interaction oriented
People
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Adaptive
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Dependable
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Independent
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Observant
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Resourceful
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Verbal communication
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Visual communication
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Empathetic
User Interface
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Design systems creation and management
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Digital design governance
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Design composition
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Accessibility design
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Interactive prototyping
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Typography
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Icon design

