I’m a UX designer who turns complex, ambiguous problems into shipped products. With 10+ years across in-house teams, agencies, startups, and freelance work, I bring both the range to work across industries and the depth to lead teams through the hardest parts. I currently lead design at In-Situ, designing water quality products used by hydrologists, scientists, and field operators.
Empathize. Synthesize. Pixelize.
From in-depth user interviews and intricate prototyping, to brand development and stakeholder management, I offer an open, curious, and practical approach to design.
Storyboarding / Qualitative and Quantitative User Research and Testing / Journeys / Contextual Inquiry / Card Sorting / Concept Models / Affinity Diagrams / Information Architecture / Rapid Iteration / Sketching
Interactive Prototyping / Animations / Wireframing / Sitemaps / Design Systems
Tools: Figma, Sketch, Proto.io, Principle, Adobe XD, InVision, Balsamiq
UI / Typography / Grids / Color / Style Guides / Brand / Iconography
From nonprofits to international companies, startups to agencies, the design process can always bring value.
Wethos
2019-2022
www.wethos.co
How can Wethos empower freelancers to team up together, take on bigger clients, and earn more money?
Role: Director of Design, user research, ideation, data analysis, wire framing, prototyping, testing, brand, responsive mobile-first web app
Ubisoft
2017-2019
www.ubisoft.com
How can Ubisoft create a navigation system that is modular, flexible and contextual across its entire web ecosystem with primary, secondary, and tertiary layers?
Role: Stakeholder interviews, card sorts, tree tests, surveys, comp/comp research, navigation audits, sketching, lo-fi wireframing, prototyping, animation
GE Renewable energy
2019
www.ge.com/renewableenergy
How can technology help wind turbine technicians track, manage, and troubleshoot their work while 300 feet in the air?
Case study coming soon
TEQUITABLE
How can technology address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace?
Role: Product design, accessibility, competitive research, sketching, lo-fi wireframing, hi-fi prototyping, branding, style guide, iconography, marketing & website design, UX copywriting
WE THE FUTURE
2017
How can technology help increase millennial voter turnout and ultimately resist Trump's agenda?
Role: Product design, comp/comp research, diagramming, product strategy, sketching, lo-fi wireframing, hi-fi prototyping, branding, iconography, logo design
FWD.US
2015-2016
www.fwd.us
How can we harness the power of story telling to influence the national narrative, persuade elected officials, and pass comprehensive immigration reform?
Role: Stakeholder & user interviews, surveys, usability testing, lo-fi wireframing, prototyping
Winston Retail
2017-2018
www.winstonretail.com
How can Winston provide value to clients through customized field reporting and real-time data and visit details?
Role: Product design, stakeholder and user interviews, modeling, lo-fi and hi-fi prototyping, brand extension
Fight For Families
2016
How can a website serve as a central hub for a coalition of advocacy organizations fighting one of the biggest Supreme Court cases on immigration in decades?
Role: Stakeholder interviews, information architecture, physical asset production, website maintenance
Companies
Startups
Agencies
Nonprofits
“Bo is a great mixture of valuable traits in a designer: resourceful, proactive, flexible, insightful. I recommend him highly and without reservation.”
“It was a total pleasure managing Bo. His analytical processes paired with his ease in empathizing result in sharp and efficient products and designs.”
“Bo is driven by the power of design to build equity, understanding, and action. He’s self-directed, passionate, intuitive, and a great listener.”
I am a strong advocate for the impact of effective design. It has the ability to enhance experiences, simplify interactions, and drive continuous improvement. An optimal design approach integrates elements of empathy and inquiry, with a focus on both creativity and invention. By embracing good design practices, we have the potential to make meaningful contributions and bring about positive change on a large and small scale.
Let us strive to make this a reality.
Brown University | Providence, RI
B.A., Development Studies | Honors Thesis | 2009-2013
General Assembly | San Francisco, CA
User Experience Design Immersive | 10 week, full-time program led by top UX practitioners | 2015
Say howdy: schlagel.bo@gmail.com
