Sam Sturtevant

Product Designer | Optimizing design impact within real-world constraints

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About

As a Product Designer, I excel at finding the sweet spot between design ambition and practical execution. I focus on delivering high-value user experiences while carefully considering constraints and costs, ensuring every design choice is both purposeful and feasible.

Work Experience

Product Designer

Buildable Custom Software | Full-Time

Jul 2022 - Present

Designed and launched custom software tools, ensuring alignment with client needs and expectations. Managed multiple projects simultaneously, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines. Led Agile iterations to refine internal processes, enhancing requirement capture and verification. Facilitated seamless developer handoff, applying frontend polish to elevate user experience.

  • Delivered a custom logistics portal with real-time carrier analytics and a tablet app for warehouse use.
  • Redesigned a property tax appraisal system, enabling parameter-driven comparisons and spatial mapping tools.
  • Overhauled a reinsurance portal, streamlining member tools and automating renewal workflows.

UI/UX Designer

UMT360 | Contract

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

UI/UX/Brand Designer

Seattle Veterinary Outreach | Contract

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

Visual Design Intern

Avanade | Internship

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Education

Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction focus)

University of Washington

3.50

Sep 2015 - Jun 2019

Projects

Custom Reinsurance Portal

Jan 2025 - Present

Led design for a reinsurance pool’s internal portal overhaul to replace legacy tools. Scope included member and policy management, invoicing, site-wide notes and reminders, renewal generation, and a dedicated member portal for external access.

Custom Property Appraisal Tool

Jun 2024 - Mar 2025

Led year-long design of a property tax appraisal agency’s internal system. Delivered parcel detail views, custom IA for time-based property data, parameter-driven comparison tools, document and case management, and spatial property mapping.

Custom Warehouse Logistics Portal

Nov 2023 - May 2024

Led design of a custom warehouse logistics portal, delivered within a 1.5-year deadline ahead of critical API deprecation. Covered order management, load scheduling, route sequencing, status monitoring, reporting, and carrier analytics. Launched with a companion tablet app for warehouse operations.

Seattle Veterinary Outreach

Contract

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

Designed branding, print materials, and web collateral for a Seattle-based veterinary outreach program providing medical care to under-served pet owners.

Skills

UX Design

  • Gathering Requirements
  • Usability Testing
  • Accessibility Standards
  • Human-Centered Design Principles

Visual Design

  • Typography
  • Color
  • Visual Hierarchy
  • Composition
  • Branding & Identity

Frontend Development

  • HTML/SCSS
  • JavaScript
  • AngularJS
  • Vue.js/Vuetify
  • git/GitLab

Product Ownership

  • Connecting Stakeholders
  • Backlog Management
  • Agile/Sprint Planning

UI Design

  • Wireframes
  • High-Fidelity Prototypes
  • Interactive Prototypes
  • Whimsical
  • Figma
  • Component Libraries
  • Design Systems

Interests

Gaming

  • MMOs
  • Tabletop RPGs
  • Roguelikes
  • Nintendo Kid
  • Game Dev Hobbyist

Music

  • Music Production
  • Vinyl Records
  • High-Fidelity Audio
  • Sound Design
  • Audio Engineering

Arts & Crafts

  • Illustration
  • 3D Printing
  • Miniatures
  • Sculpting
  • Pixel Art
  • Album Artwork

Tasty Stuff

  • Specialty Coffee
  • Craft Beer
  • Homemade Ice Cream
  • and anything by J. Kenji López-Alt