Justin Scherer
Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia Foundation
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Scherer is a Lead UX Designer with nine years of experience shaping research-driven, pixel-perfect experiences across complex digital and physical ecosystems. Currently at the Wikimedia Foundation and teaching UX research courses at the University of Alberta, he blends hands-on design leadership with academic rigor to elevate product strategy and team capability. His background leading design at startups and fintechs—including Remitly, Hover Developer Services, and Scotiabank—gives him a rare mix of enterprise process discipline and scrappy product pragmatism. Based in Calgary but originally working in the Canadian Far North, he has a knack for building developer-facing tools for emerging markets and translating deep user research into evocative, actionable deliverables. Trained in Knowledge Media Design (University of Toronto) with a liberal arts foundation from McGill, he pairs storytelling and systems thinking to connect stakeholders, designers, and engineers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information (MI), Knowledge Media Design, Master of Information (MI), Knowledge Media Design at University of TorontoBachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons.), History and German Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons.), History and German Studies at McGill University
English, German, French
Github Skills (17)
ushahidi10
dual-sim10
ussd10
mpesa10
kotlin9
sdk9
airtime9
airtel-money9
banking9
android8
requirejs7
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bower5
ui-components2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
justinscherer/Stax
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Secure. Transaction. Automated. Experience
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 months
securesecuritytransaction
justinscherer/minerva-prototypes
Apr 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 month
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