Scott Lederer
User Experience Design Advisor at Freelance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Lederer is a user experience design advisor with over a decade of product and UX leadership experience, specializing in early-stage web apps that span AI, collaboration, productivity, maps, local search, and photos. He led the local search experience on Google Maps for several years and has since helped startups and teams translate user needs into pragmatic design, operations, and strategy—equally comfortable as a solo designer coding production-grade frontend or as a design lead at the leadership table. Scott has a strong research foundation from an MS in HCI at UC Berkeley and a track record modernizing UX practices at organizations like Azavea and Capitol AI, where he balanced velocity with quality for AI-driven data storytelling. He’s drawn to scrappy, pre‑PMF environments where design directly shapes product-market fit, and he often serves as a transparent translator between design, product, and engineering. An interesting throughline: he pairs deep map and local-search expertise with hands-on product instincts honed by entrepreneurial detours—everything from digital picture frames to screenplay drafts—bringing both rigor and curiosity to design problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, MS, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPost-Baccalaureate Studies, Computer Science, Post-Baccalaureate Studies, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBA, English Lit, BA, English Lit at Boston University
Github Skills (55)
circuit10
css-transitions10
geofencing10
opentripplanner10
unmount10
transit10
ancestry9
searching9
matching9
styled-components9
explore9
react9
styled-system9
typography8
colors8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lederer/react-showtime
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Mount & unmount React elements with CSS transitions
Contributions:4 releases, 18 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 5 months
css-transitionsreactunmount
azavea/svg-to-chakra-icon
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Website for quickly converting SVG icon files into Chakra UI Icon components
Contributions:56 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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