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River Romney

I'm a Principal Designer with ten years specializing in complex B2B systems — design systems infrastructure, decision tooling, and the compliance-heavy surfaces enterprise teams rely on daily.

My work lives at the intersection of policy, data, and enterprise UX. I care about making the invisible legible — surfacing the rules, states, and edge cases that software usually buries. The best design systems work looks quiet on the surface and holds up under real pressure.

I bring a systems-first mindset to every project. I'm as fluent architecting a component library as I am co-authoring a product brief, running a research sprint, or negotiating token governance with engineering leads.

Currently strong in

Design SystemsB2B / Enterprise UXCompliance UXDecision ToolingFigmaResearchPrototypingCross-functional Leadership

Experience

Principal UI/UX Designer, Design Systems
Capital One
2024 – 2025
Lead Product Designer, Design Systems - Product Owner
OpenTable
2019 – 2024
Product Designer
EPIC!
2018 – 2019
Interaction Designer
ExpertVoice
2015 – 2018

Based in San Francisco and taking new work — let's connect on LinkedIn.