Robert Boler // experience designer

Design is
giving a damn.

Focused, pragmatic, sustainable solutions through human-centered experience design

🔆 Available in Austin, TX / remote / relocation

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Recent industries + platforms

Much of my work has been client-confidential, but here’s an idea of the types of verticals and platforms I’ve designed for:

 
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Case studies

8+ years of professional product design & service design for corporations and startups

Making sustainable living convenient with Trashless

Sole designer on digital, print, branding, and service design for a circular-economy startup

Investigating lost shipments
with Lookup

A purpose-built web app for a major logistics client, involving research, user flows, wireframes, geo data, and copywriting for machine learning A.I.

a freight yard

Tracking freight finances

An improved process & new software features to manage the complicated financial processes of the freight world. (Anonymized case study)

Side quests

More professional work samples and presentations

Managing resilient renewable energy

Speculative desktop interface design for renewable power generation operations & maintenance
(UI design quickie)

Experience-led strategies for sustainability

A talk on driving sustainable behavior change with user-focused motivations; part of an Accenture Song panel
(Talk-over deck only, no presenter notes)

Independent design work for sustainability

A collection of pro bono work that drives behavior change with service design, product design, & behavior economics

Advocating for smart mobility

A modular website, copywriting, yard sign designs, stickers, posters, and more for this Austin volunteer urbanist org

Understanding mobility behaviors

A mobility behavior design workshop, part of Austin Design Week

Teaching user-centered design to a transit tech team

Educating a transit tech product team about design, research, and prototyping

“Swelter” UI roadmap — conceptual heat safety mobile app

 

Horseplay

Independent projects for fun or personal growth

Breaking physical filter bubbles with Destiny

An indie iOS mobile app for a public hackathon. Involved conceptualizing, user flows, visual design, copywriting, and map data.

Unifying local mobility services with Saddle

A native mobile app concept for a
mobility pitch contest

Micromobility micro-stickers

Lighthearted graphic design

Getting busy folks to the polls with Voting Plan

A small, indie web app

A modern digital boarding pass fit for TWA

"Loki" TV show-themed Apple Watch face

“Westworld” board game design to celebrate the start of the third season (original map by HBO)

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(5+ years old)

 

Laurels

Awards, talks, and community engagement

 

2023 Designit lunch & learn guest speaker

2022 Practice Makes Design + Sustainability panelist

2022 Arrive Logistics Hackweek Grand Champion

2021 AT&T Design Technology Bar-Raiser Award

Austin Design Week design conference

Austin Fast Start pitch competition

Fjord Equinox internal conference

  • 2019 speaker — “Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Empowering Values-Based Consumerism” (showing the Buoy web app)

  • 2017 speaker — “Uncurated: The Side Effects of Personalization”

Fjord Design Voices corporate blog

SXSW Place By Design

  • 2018 alternate & attendee — Destiny app

Startup: Drive hackathon

Kudos

Excerpts from LinkedIn Recommendations →

“His palpable enthusiasm for good UX is infectious. I’m truly a better engineer because of him.”

— Ava, Data Engineer

“Robert is a practical, action-oriented designer with abundant energy and optimism that he shares with the team.”

— Bret, Design Director

“He is a thoughtful, enthusiastic designer who makes objective cases for his design decisions and is always looking out for others in the studio.”

— Ansa, Design Dir. + manager

 

Let’s talk

🔆 You’re in luck! I’m actively seeking full-time UX design work. I'm always interested in impactful design challenges, especially around civics, education, or environmental sustainability.

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