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Shaun Leishman

UX/UI Designer · Edinburgh

  • postalshaun@outlook.com
  • 07708002642
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  • www.shaunleishmanportfolio.com
It's one thing to shape experiences that improve lives. Helping people make better decisions is where the real work happens.

I'm a UX/UI Designer in Edinburgh with over five years making complex digital products easier to use and easier to ship. Most of that sits in healthcare, SaaS, energy, government, and financial services, where people have to trust what they see before they act.

I work across research, prototyping, design systems, and data-heavy screens. Happy to run workshops or stakeholder conversations when a project needs clarity. I use AI-assisted prototyping to explore ideas quickly, but I still own the thinking and what ships.

Key strengths

  • Making dense technical and regulated products clearer to use
  • Research, prototyping, and design systems with engineering
  • Workshops and stakeholder work when the direction is still messy

Experience

Product Designer · Arbnco

Mar 2024 to Jun 2026

The product helps commercial buildings with energy and carbon reporting. Most of my work was making dense technical stuff readable so people could trust it. I designed energy, carbon, consent, and reporting flows, and ran the design system with engineering. Figma and live components matched properly in under 6 months.

One sprint I remember well was the synthetic hourly data work. Meters were often monthly, but teams needed hourly views. I designed how people turn estimates on, see eligibility, and tell estimated hours apart from real readings.

UX Consultant · User Vision

Mar 2022 to Mar 2024

Client work across healthcare, SaaS, government, and public services. Research took up a big chunk of my week. I usually ran it end to end, then turned findings into journey changes, prototypes, and recommendations developers could build.

One change that stuck with me was a navigation flow that was getting in people's way. We simplified it, and task success went up by about 40%.

I was shifting from digital design into UX, with a psychology masters place at Stirling lined up, when User Vision approached me and I took the role.

Digital Designer · The&Partnership

Oct 2019 to Sept 2021

Digital campaign work for financial services clients including RBS, NatWest, and Ulster Bank. Brand guidelines, templates, and reusable assets that had to hold up across email, web, social, and advertising.

One piece that stuck with me was a Scottish Rugby campaign. I led the creative side of the digital work, and it reached over 11 million interactions.

Education

  • BDes (Hons) Graphic Design, Edinburgh Napier University

    First Class Honours, 2019

  • CPUX-F Certified

    Foundation-level usability and UX certification

  • Interaction Design Foundation

    Emotional design, data-driven UX, usability testing, HCI, and VR/AR

Skills

UX and product

UX strategy, discovery, information architecture, journeys, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, interviews, surveys, workshops, accessibility-aware design.

UI and systems

Figma, design systems, component libraries, data visualisation, responsive UI, visual hierarchy, developer handover.

Creative and technical

Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, basic HTML and CSS, AI-assisted prototyping.

Interests

Music, songwriting, production, fixing electronics, jiujitsu, mountain biking, skiing, scuba diving, mentoring.

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