Gia Romano

Product design leader working across SaaS, consumer products, and complex digital platforms. I bring AI into both the design process and the product experience, using it to reveal patterns, reduce friction, and help people move through complexity with more clarity, confidence, and control. My work spans product strategy, user experience, interface design, and hands-on implementation, moving ideas from early concept into testable, buildable product experiences.

Founder & Product Design Consultant at UXandMe (2010-07 – Present)

Independent product design and AI innovation practice where I design, prototype and build software to explore emerging AI capabilities, modern development workflows and customer experiences.

• Designed and built consumer-facing AI product concepts spanning personalised shopping, conversational experiences, onboarding flows and workflow automation.
• Owned end-to-end product development across strategy, UX, front-end implementation, AI orchestration and continuous product iteration.
• Developed reusable design systems, component architectures and AI-assisted workflows that accelerate product delivery and improve design quality.

Lead Product Designer at Fleet Space Technologies (2025-02 – 2026-05)

Partnered with executive leadership, product managers and engineers to shape AI-powered exploration products spanning geological modelling, operational platforms and scientific decision support.

• Led end-to-end product design across discovery, prototyping, validation and implementation for AI-powered exploration products used by geoscientists worldwide.
• Governed the shared design system across Exosphere, ExoCore and Comet, creating reusable patterns and implementation standards that enabled consistent product delivery across the platform.
• Partnered directly with scientists, engineers and product leadership to translate complex geoscience and AI workflows into production-ready enterprise software.
• Worked directly with engineers through GitHub, contributing implementation guidance, reviewing pull requests and refining production UI.
• Delivered product design for Comet™, an AI-powered mineralogy platform that transforms geochemical assay data into quantitative mineralogical models.

Lead User Experience Designer at ABRI (2024-01 – 2024-10)

ABRI develops specialist SaaS products for genetics, breeding, and registry management.

• Led product design for next-generation genetic decision-support tools, enabling breeders worldwide to evaluate mating pairs and predict genetic outcomes with confidence.
• Translated advanced livestock genetics and predictive breeding science into intuitive digital experiences, helping make complex genetic insights accessible to a broader global audience of breeders and breed organisations.
• Partnered with geneticists, researchers, product leaders, and industry stakeholders to evolve a globally adopted genetics platform supporting breed improvement, registry management, and performance recording programs.

Lead User Experience Designer at TradeWindow (2023-03 – 2024-01)

TradeWindow develops digital trade software for logistics, compliance, and cross-border supply chain workflows.

• Led UX/UI for Cube, transforming complex international trade workflows into a scalable SaaS platform that reduced task completion times by 34%, lowered user errors by 27%, and increased workflow adoption by 41%.
• Designed UX foundations for Assure+, connecting enterprise supply-chain workflows with QR-driven consumer-facing transparency across food, agriculture and consumer goods.
• Assure+ was recognised through the FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Challenge and adopted across multiple industries, contributing to customer retention exceeding 91%.

Sr User Experience Designer → User Experience Manager at Seequent (2017-04 – 2023-03)

Established and scaled the UX practice across Seequent and Bentley Systems, embedding research, design systems and product development practices across globally distributed teams.

• Built the UX practice into a globally distributed design organisation spanning Seequent and Bentley Systems.
• Established and governed the global design system, partnered with engineering to translate Figma libraries into Storybook components, reusable patterns and implementation standards.
• Led UX strategy and product design for Leapfrog, Seequent View and Seequent Evo, spanning desktop, cloud and emerging AI-enabled geoscience platforms.
• Built, mentored and led an international design team while partnering with executive leadership to shape product strategy across a global portfolio of geoscience products.

Certificate in Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience – MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design – Colorado State University

Certificate in Customer Experience Leadership – Brad Cleveland

Certificate in UX Management: Strategy and Tactics – Interaction Design Foundation

Certificate in Foundations of UX: Making the Case for Usability Testing – Interaction Design Foundation