Robin Silberling

Sr. User Experience Designer at Open Text

Austin, Texas Area

Current
Past
  • User Experience Designer at Vignette
  • User Experience & Web Designer at Self Employed
  • Senior User Interface Designer at Allegis Corporation
Education
  • St. Edward's University
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
Connections
138 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Robin Silberling’s Summary

Over fifteen years experience designing user interfaces for web applications, web sites, Windows and Macintosh applications, operating systems, and multimedia.

Additional information and portfolio at: www.robinnet.net

Robin Silberling’s Specialties:

Interaction and visual design for web applications. Web site design and front-end development
Also film and digital photography, color-managed work flow, and digital fine art printing.


Robin Silberling’s Experience

  • Sr. User Experience Designer

    Open Text

    (Public Company; OTEX; Computer Software industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

    (Vignette was purchased by OpenText. I'm continuing to work on the same products)

  • User Experience Designer

    Vignette

    (Public Company; VIGN; Computer Software industry)

    February 2008July 2009 (1 year 6 months)

    User experience architect and lead designer for Vignette Content Management 8.0, a web application that allows business users to create and manage web content and rich media for enterprise web sites.

  • User Experience & Web Designer

    Self Employed

    (Computer Software industry)

    December 2003February 2008 (4 years 3 months)

    Freelance web and user experience design.

  • Senior User Interface Designer

    Allegis Corporation

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    September 1998August 2002 (4 years )

    Designed user interface for Allegis eBusiness Suite, a web portal enabling businesses to manage and optimize their indirect sales channels. Designed database-driven, complex features which were highly configurable for different types of users. Actively involved in all phases of software development for six major product releases. Participated in the design of the data models and software architecture where relevant to the user interface.

  • Senior User Interface Designer

    Netscape Communications

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

    August 1996September 1998 (2 years 2 months)

    Server Products Division -- Designed HTML and Java-based end-user and administrator interfaces for server administration, personal web directory management, personal web publishing, newsgroup management, and access control in Netscape SuiteSpot 3.0, 3,5, and 4.0 beta.

  • Senior User Interface Designer

    Netscape Communications

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

    November 1995August 1996 (10 months)

    Client Products Division -- Designed cross-platform web page editor in Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0 and 3.0. Served as contributing designer for Composer and Navigator in Communicator 4.0.

  • Senior User Interface Designer

    BAM! Software, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1993June 1995 (1 year 10 months)

    Designed all aspects of user interface for Prentice-Hall's Writer's Solution, a multimedia curriculum to teach writing and grammar to junior high and high school students.

  • User Interface Designer

    Taligent, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 1991September 1993 (2 years 9 months)

    Member of a multidisciplinary user interface team developing a collaborative, task-centered user experience for a new object-oriented operating system. Explored new visual and interaction models for linking, document models, direct manipulation, and selection. Created new visual designs for windows, dialog box controls, and icons.

  • Quality Engineer... UI Designer

    Apple Computer, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    February 1987January 1991 (4 years )

    Member of product development team for HyperCard, from alpha 1.0 to post v.2.0. Designed and scripted example applications and utilities included with product. Contributed to user interface design of printing and drawing functionality. Performed quality-assurance testing.


Robin Silberling’s Education

  • St. Edward's University

    Photography 20042007

    Part-time

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

    Extension-Certificate , Graphic Design , 19851987


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Robin Silberling’s Interests:

Photography, digital photography, functional training, parenting...

Robin Silberling’s Groups:

Texas Photographic Society

  •    ExMozilla
  •    Taligent Alumni
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Refresh Austin
  •    UX Professionals
  •    User Experience
  •    Austin UX
  •    User Experience Jobs
  •    UX Book Club

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