Adam Rotmil, Designer in Silver Spring, MD, United States
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Adam Rotmil

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Designer

Location
Silver Spring, MD, United States
Toptal Member Since
October 6, 2021

With over 25 years of experience, Adam brings a wealth of product design and strategy insights to any challenge. He loves to lead by example. Adam has design expertise in finance, wealth and trading, digital transformation, process and culture change, and digital health. He has led design at biotech AstraZeneca and Fjord Accenture, a global firm. Adam teaches product design at MICA. He studied at SCAD, Art Institute Boston, Basel HGK Switzerland, and Harvard University.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Adjunct Faculty, Master in Professional Studies (MPS) Design Program

2018 - PRESENT
Maryland Institute College of Art
  • Taught a graduate course on product design. We elevate design craft and product thinking by using design frameworks with real-world case studies. Our classes prepare the next generation of leaders.
  • Taught four classes, each with over 20 students over the course of three years.
  • Received recognition for my work, as over 10 former students have written to share that they are now gainfully employed in the design industry, which they attribute in part to their studies with me as their design teacher.
Technologies: Figma, Zoom, Miro, Airtable, Sketch, UX Design, Visual Design, UI Design, User Testing, Desktop App Design, Product Leadership, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Prototyping, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, UI Components, Wireframing, Design Reviews, Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

Head of Design

1996 - PRESENT
Adam Rotmil Partners LLC
  • Brought a wealth of insights in product design and strategy to any challenge. Led by example—whether developing junior associates or partnering with senior executives.
  • Worked across many industries, with special design expertise in investing, wealth and trading, digital transformation, process and culture change, and digital healthcare.
  • Served as a design leader in a civilian capacity for the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Airtable, Sketch, UX Design, Visual Design, UI Design, Digital Health, User Testing, Desktop App Design, Product Leadership, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Financial UX, Prototyping, Fintech, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, UI Components, Dashboards, UX Assessment, Wireframing, Design Reviews, System Design, UX Wireflows, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Stories, User Personas, UX Leadership, Pitch Presentations, Market Research & Analysis, Brand Design, Financial Products

Product Discovery and Design Lead

2020 - 2022
AstraZeneca
  • Designed an app that extends life for patients by collecting health data and keeping their care teams informed. Extended the app to work with large clinical trials.
  • Designed an app that uses AI to capture key health metrics using a standard smartphone. It includes a social feed for secure sharing.
  • Conducted over 100 interviews with patients and caregivers. Synthesized findings to discover trends and inform product-market fit.
  • Managed a lean team of designers using a hypothesis-driven approach. Ran design sprints and led the facilitation of workshops with stakeholders.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Miro, Airtable, UX Design, Visual Design, UI Design, Digital Health, User Testing, Desktop App Design, Product Leadership, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Prototyping, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, UI Components, Dashboards, UX Assessment, Wireframing, Design Reviews, System Design, UX Wireflows, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Stories, User Personas, UX Tools, UX Leadership, Pitch Presentations, App UI, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Complex Web Systems, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Desk Research, Market Research & Analysis, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Responsive Layout

Craft Lead | Interaction Design Manager

2018 - 2020
Fjord
  • Led the design of products that provide critical infrastructure for the functioning of United States core operations, impacting hundreds of millions of people each day.
  • Co-led the interaction design craft at Fjord DC. Helped scale a design studio from 40 designers to 150+ in two years. Collaborated closely with product, engineering, users, and organizational leaders.
  • Designed, prototyped, tested, and shipped over six complex digital products. Led design teams and shaped careers for over 20 design team members.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Airtable, UX Design, UI Design, Digital Health, User Testing, Desktop App Design, Product Leadership, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Prototyping, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, UI Components, Dashboards, UX Assessment, Wireframing, Design Reviews, System Design, UX Wireflows, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Stories, User Personas, UX Tools, UX Leadership, Pitch Presentations, App UI, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Complex Web Systems, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Agriculture, Desk Research, Market Research & Analysis, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Responsive Layout

UX Design Lead | Senior Manager

2017 - 2018
T. Rowe Price
  • Acted as a founding member of an innovation lab for a financial firm and led product design for a retail investment app and helped scale up the lab. Responsible for shipping product features that are designed around key performance metrics.
  • Helped lead feature definition, field research, interaction, and visual design, high-fidelity prototyping, user testing, and collaboration with engineering.
  • Reduced users reporting a sense of shame around taking temporary cash withdrawals.
  • Migrated the channel from phone to digital, resulting in a 400% increase, increased the conversions relative to unique visitors by 12%, and reduced the rate of cash withdrawals per day by 17%.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Miro, Airtable, UX Design, UI Design, User Testing, Desktop App Design, Product Leadership, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Financial UX, Prototyping, Fintech, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, UI Components, Dashboards, UX Assessment, Wireframing, Design Reviews, System Design, UX Wireflows, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Stories, User Personas, UX Tools, UX Leadership, Pitch Presentations, App UI, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Complex Web Systems, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Desk Research, Market Research & Analysis, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Web UX Design, Responsive Layout, Financial Products

Design Director

2016 - 2017
Perfecta
  • Reported directly to CEO. Led the discovery and design of digital products for the military context. Joined the engineering team as design lead to collaborate on building a suite of six digital products, for native apps and responsive web.
  • Build the brand identity for the company and created a book of brand standards and visual identity guidelines.
  • Interviewed over 36 users and stakeholders over the course of six months to inform a product roadmap and agile product release cycle.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Balsamiq, Miro, Airtable, UX Design, UI Design, User Testing, Desktop App Design, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Journeys, User Research, Prototyping, Product Leadership, Leadership, Design Leadership, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Qualitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, UX Assessment, Wireframing, Design Reviews, UX Wireflows, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Stories, UX Tools, UX Leadership, App UI, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Responsive Layout

UI Developer

2015 - 2016
Accenture
  • Helped engineer a mobile chatbot app that empowers veterans to share health information with their doctors. Collaborated with the engineering team and product designers.
  • Wrote over 1,000 lines of code to create functionality for five major product features.
  • Participated in regular bi-weekly agile sprints to iteratively release new product features, working with UX design and engineering team.
Technologies: AngularJS, Sketch, Visual Design, User Testing, UX Research, Chatbot Conversation Design, User Research, Prototyping, Mobile App Design, User Flows, Big Data, Agile, Scrum, UI Components, Dashboards, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, User Stories, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Responsive Layout

Digital Associate

2012 - 2015
The Pew Charitable Trusts
  • Helped lead product design and content strategy supporting 72 impactful philanthropic efforts—everything from saving baby penguins to eliminating overdraft ATM fees.
  • Led digital production for news and reporting. Embedded with a scrappy investigative journalism staff to produce data-backed reportage, syndicated daily in The Washington Post, USA Today, HuffPost, and other nationwide publications.
  • Played a hands-on role as a visual designer during two full redesigns of the website for a nonprofit charity with an endowment of $5 billion.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, UX Design, User Testing, Content Strategy, User Research, Prototyping, User Flows, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, Agile, UX Assessment, Design Reviews, Jira, Mobile UI Design, UX Tools, App UI, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Brand Design, Web UX Design, Responsive Layout

Product Designer

2011 - 2012
Wons Kabushiki-Gaisha
  • Acted as a product designer at a startup in Matsuyama, Japan. I designed a flexible platform to help local merchants get their shops online, in a tech context where flip phones ruled the day.
  • Worked for a Japanese company that taught me about punctuality, respect, humility, team spirit, serving others, working lean, embracing hierarchy, working long hours, and team bonding.
  • Designed over 24 websites for small- to mid-size businesses, mainly in the eCommerce space, as well as hospitality and retail.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, UX Design, UI Design, Japanese, User Testing, UX Research, User Research, Prototyping, Mobile App Design, User Flows, User Interviews, Agile, Scrum, Wireframing, Jira, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Hands-on Implementation, Desk Research

Senior Designer

2002 - 2006
NERA Economic Consulting
  • Helped my director lead design for a global consulting firm in partnership with Lippincott. Together we built trust across the company, developed a new visual identity, established workflows, and grew the team.
  • Acted as Microsoft’s expert witness in the antitrust matter, among other major cases. We also advised on Google’s IPO.
  • Designed digital experiences related to 18 practice areas in the field of microeconomics and related consulting.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, UX Design, Visual Design, User Testing, User Research, Financial UX, Prototyping, Leadership, Design Leadership, User Flows, User Interviews, Wireframing, System Design, UX Tools, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Financial Products

Information Architect

2002 - 2003
Inform
  • Performed information architecture with a focus on financial data. We designed user-centered financial statements that surfaced and clarified trends.
  • Designed over 24 versions of a typographic structure for financial data, to determine optimal visual communication of financial trends.
  • Performed eight rounds of usability testing with retail investors to ensure the new design for their financial statement would be easy to understand, helping them make better-informed decisions.
Technologies: Adobe InDesign, UX Design, User Testing, User Research, Financial UX, Prototyping, Fintech, User Flows, User Interviews, System Design, Hands-on Implementation, User Workflows, Financial Products
2004 - 2004

Student Exchange in Typography

Schule fur Gestaltung Basel - Basel, Switzerland

2002 - 2002

Coursework in Japanese Language

Harvard University - Cambridge, MA

1999 - 2002

Bachelor's Degree in Design

Lesley University - Cambridge, MA

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