# Robert [Bob] Weisbecker Product & Systems Designer > Product designer specializing in design systems, tools, and the code in between. Currently leading platform interface design at Everfi. Pitched, architected, and oversee Everfi's Unified Design Language, a token-driven React design system spanning 3 platforms and 40+ products. Previously designed education products, authoring & development tools, and component systems supporting products that reached 45 million learners. - Website: **[bob.fyi](https://bob.fyi)** - Contact: **[yo@bob.fyi](mailto:yo@bob.fyi)** - Location: San Diego ∙ Remote --- ## Experience ### Everfi from Blackbaud **Principal UX Engineer, Design Systems** _December 2024–Present_ - Lead design direction, React implementation, governance, and adoption for **Unified Design Language** (UDL), the shared design system spanning 3 platforms and 40+ products across admin, learner, and K12 experiences. - Architected a token pipeline connecting Figma variables, GitHub, and Style Dictionary, producing shared tokens across React (Styled System), web (CSS variables, SCSS), and Tableau (XML). - Authored base component styles and integrated tokens into component API. - Prototyping AI-assisted migration workflows grounded in design-system components and tokens. - Established OKLCH color system (27 palettes, 365 colors) and theming to enhance WCAG conformance, support light/dark modes, solidify brand expression, and generate color-blind safe data visualizations. - Lead UI design for a new **K12 platform** in React, translating beta feedback and usability research into dashboard, progress-tracking, data visualization, and navigation patterns. #### Principal Designer, Design Systems _December 2022–December 2024_ - Consolidated fragmented product and platform component libraries into a unified design system across admin, learner, authoring, and course experiences. - Defined core foundations — color, typography, spacing, density, motion, component behavior — through reusable tokens, specs, and cross-product guidance. - Partnered with engineering to define monorepo architecture, contribution workflows, and migration strategy for a React-based system. - Built React component demos and theming proofs of concept to validate system scope, API direction, and color mode support before broad rollout. - Maintained connected Figma libraries and authored migration documentation for designers and engineers. #### Principal Designer, Platform UX _June 2022–December 2022_ - Initiated what became **Unified Design Language.** Ran the org-wide product audit that surfaced fragmentation across component libraries, admin platforms, end-user products, and whitelabeling; built and pitched the executive case for a consolidated system; authored the initial design language strategy, system health criteria, and implementation roadmap to eventually power 40+ products. ### Everfi #### Senior Interaction Designer, Product _March 2020–June 2022_ - Built and governed a shared **Figma library used by 30+ designers across 72 products**. - Led product design for **Forge**, an internal Git-connected Electron app for course development and implementation, allowing users to build products and generate code using the component library and internal SDK. - Designed complex interactive data visualizations, animations, and new interaction patterns for a K12 Data Science product suite. - Established design-to-development workflows, documentation practices, accessibility review, and front-end implementation guidance to keep Figma components and production UI aligned. #### Interaction Designer, Product _April 2018–March 2020_ - Originated and led design of **Furnace**, Everfi's first in-house component library and theming system for e-learning products. - Drove cross-functional adoption that grew responsive products **from 13 to 77** and **reduced component-related accessibility bugs by 83%** within its first two years. - Created scalable visual primitives — color, typography, spacing, layout, borders, radius, elevation — reducing theme complexity while extending flexibility and maintainability. - Introduced universal RTL and multilingual support, custom themes for 12+ sub-brands, and fully branded experiences for customers including **Google, Beyond Meat, Kroger, and the NHL**. - Partnered with content, engineering, visual design, product, and QA teams to design and implement new reusable interaction patterns across product lines. #### Product/UX Designer _August 2017–April 2018_ - UX lead for **Achieve**, Everfi's flagship adult financial education product, used by 900+ financial institutions to reach 1.6M learners per year. - Designed **Engage**, a tablet-based progressive web app for guided financial education workshops, with live polling, interactive calculators, and progress tracking for both facilitator and participant. - Built reusable templates and interaction patterns supporting financial education products across mobile, tablet, and desktop. ### Internships **Product Design Intern**, Everfi (June—Aug 2017) ∙ Designer on Engage product (see above) **R&D Design Intern**, NPR (Jan–May 2017) · Modernized an internal radio station coverage mapping tool built with Vue and Mapbox. **UX/Design Intern**, Parking Panda (June—Aug 2015) · Usability testing, web design, and iOS app improvements prior to SpotHero acquisition. --- ## Education **Maryland Institute College of Art** — Master of Professional Studies, UX Design (2016–2017) Thesis: _Immigration Paperwork as a Conversational Interface_ **University of Michigan** — B.A., Cognitive Science; Minor in Art & Design (2012–2016) --- ## Skills **Design Systems** — token pipelines, Figma libraries/variables, Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio, perceptual uniformity, theming, strategy, migration **Design Engineering** — React (JSX/TSX), CSS/SCSS, Tailwind, Styled System, Motion.dev / Framer Motion, Storybook, Applitools, monorepo workflows **AI Workflows** — design-to-code and code-to-design workflows via Figma MCP, Paper MCP (paper.design), Agentation.dev. Experience with different harnesses: Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot. **Accessibility** — WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA **Product Design** — interaction & motion design, designing for density and localization, data visualization, icon design --- _Links:_ Case studies, code demos, and experiments can be found on my [website](https://bob.fyi). Public design resources can be found on Figma Community: [@yobob](https://figma.com/@yobob). LinkedIn profile: [@robertweisbecker](https://linkedin.com/in/robertweisbecker)