Robert Boler // Experience Designer

Robert Boler // experience designer

Design is
giving a damn.

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

Recent industries + technologies

Much of my work has been client-confidential, but here’s an idea of the types of verticals and platforms I’ve designed for. Holler at me for more detailed stories, case studies, or videos.

 
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Design work

7+ years of professional product design & service design for corporations, startups, and nonprofits

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.

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

Fighting back
the freeway

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

 

Design play

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.

Micromobility micro-stickers

Lighthearted graphic design

Unifying local mobility services with Saddle

A native mobile app concept for a
mobility pitch contest

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)

Tex-ellation

// View student work
(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 environmental sustainability.

// holler at me
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