Rowan Sexton — Senior UX Designer
Users who can't afford to make mistakes teach you to design very carefully.
Portfolio
Case Studies
Setting the UX direction for Roche's flagship digital pathology platform.
Drawing users' attention to the right place at the right time.
Supercharging iteration through modularized Figma components.
Designing safe, modular workflows for novel digital pathology algorithms.
Kind words
What colleagues say
Rowan's creativity is off the charts. New thinking and ways of looking at problems are one of his key assets.
He continues to be a rock star in our team — recognized as a valued collaborator by project and product leadership.
After 6 months, Rowan was truly operating at Senior level — independently representing the UX team on complex digital pathology projects.
EVERYONE enjoys working with Rowan. He is calm, positive, growth oriented, supremely competent, and simply makes everyone on the team better.
Whenever Rowan takes on a task I know I don't have to worry about it — he'll keep me in the loop if it needs my attention.
His greatest strength is in UX visual and interaction design. Rowan has a case to be the best designer I've worked alongside.
His internal drive enables him to constantly develop new skills — very apparent in his mastery of interaction design in Figma.
Our manager mentioned he is "stunned" how someone seemingly junior could operate as a senior in our complex workspace in under a year.
Expertise
Skills & Capabilities
Writing
On Design
The Apple of Our Eye
How Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak saw the importance of UX early on in Apple's infancy, and how they utilized it to dominate the technology sector today.
Lean UX
Description and contextualization of Lean UX. Capstone paper for HCI 596: Emerging Practices in Human-Computer Interaction.
An Impossible Burger for an Impossible Problem
How UX was pivotal in the success of the Impossible Burger and how it was used to help tackle climate change in a world where real meat is king.
User Experience, Big Data, & Ethics
The interaction between UX, Big Data, and Ethics. University of Minnesota capstone research paper for my psychology bachelor's degree.
Get in touch
Interested in connecting?
I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, collaborations, or just a good design conversation.