Summary
Hunter Leise is a product designer in Boulder, Colorado with 11 years of experience blending software engineering, product management, and user-centered design to build intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling digital products. He began as a software developer and transitioned through technical product ownership, giving him a rare combination of hands-on technical fluency and strategic product sense that informs design decisions. At the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics he led a major website redesign, introduced Figma and usability testing practices, and created a reusable UI component library that accelerated scientific web app development. Hunter’s work emphasizes empathy-driven research—he’s conducted dozens of usability tests and interviews—and he has academic experience studying how visual attributes influence user preference. Comfortable bridging stakeholders and engineers, he consistently turns complex scientific data needs into elegant, usable experiences that spark delight.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Minor (Entrepreneurship Emphasis), Business Minor (Entrepreneurship Emphasis) at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Spanish