Preston Bezant

About Me

Senior Product Designer — Austin, TX

I'm a senior product designer with 15 years shaping enterprise and 0→1 product experiences, most recently at Lowe's and Visa. What sets me apart is that my designs don't stop at a spec — I use AI-native workflows to turn them into real, deployed, working software. The design process is how I think. Shipping something real is how I work.

In 2025 I co-founded StructureSense and owned the product end to end — the operator dashboards, device-management workflows, and commissioning tools — then took the whole thing from concept to a working system deployed for a real client. Before that I spent years on complex enterprise workflows and design systems at scale. If you need someone to figure out what to build and then make it real, that's what I do.

Austin, TX 15 Years Remote US Citizen

Skill Areas

Domain weighting across 15-year career

Skills

Product & Design

Figma UX Research Design Systems Agile Jira Product Strategy

Prototyping & Build

AI-Assisted Development Working Prototypes Deployed Apps Design-to-Production Handoff

Gen-AI Tools

Claude Cursor VS Code Antigravity Gemini API / AI Studio Prompt Engineering AI-Augmented Workflows

Web & Front-End

React TypeScript Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui Vue.js HTML CSS Git / GitHub

Platforms & Delivery

Datacake DigitalOcean Netlify REST APIs Deployment

IoT & Wireless

LoRaWAN BLE MQTT Helium Network TTN RTLS DMX512

IoT Hardware (deployed)

ESP32 PlatformIO Heltec V3 Device Commissioning Field Deployment 3D-Printed Enclosures AI-Directed Firmware Builds

Education

Oklahoma State University

B.B.A. — Management Information Systems

2006 – 2011

Austin Community College

Design & Visual Communications

2014 – 2016

Professional Timeline

From enterprise product design at Visa & Lowe's → founding designer shipping a product end to end at StructureSense

Experience

StructureSense

Co-Founder, Design & Deployment

Austin, TX · January 2025 – Present

  • Owned product design end to end for a connected-operations platform — operator dashboards, device-management workflows, and field commissioning tools
  • Designed a real-time location dashboard that turned raw multi-vendor sensor data from 200 active devices into a clear operator view with alerting
  • Took the product from concept to a working system deployed across a 50,000 sq ft facility; the proof-of-concept generated active interest from 2 prospective clients
  • Directed an AI-assisted build with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and Antigravity to ship working prototypes fast, cutting integration time ~40%
  • Published LoraManager2, an open-source Arduino/PlatformIO Class C LoRaWAN library for ESP32 + SX1262
  • Validated designs directly with property-management clients and ran field deployment with the team

Lowe's Companies

Senior Product Designer

Austin, TX (Remote) · February 2022 – October 2024

  • Sole designer on the charitable donation experience for Lowe's self-checkout — researched how major retailers handle in-checkout donation UX, designed the solution, and drove it to live implementation in stores. The redesigned experience generates roughly $1M per year in charitable donations
  • Embedded designer on the assisted and mobile checkout team, which cut average checkout time from 1:10 to under a minute at Fortune 50 scale
  • Led design decisions and tactical UX for product groups — design maps, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and comps
  • Partnered with UX, Product, and Engineering to ship cohesive customer and associate experiences across the portfolio
  • Managed visual and interactive assets within the Lowe's Digital design system to keep the product portfolio consistent
  • Mentored junior designers and provided creative approval on team deliverables

Verbosity

Senior UX Designer

Remote · September 2021 – February 2022

  • Defined product strategy and UX for a COVID test tracking and management application
  • Conducted user research and translated insights into wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications
  • Collaborated with engineering team on rapid iteration cycles from concept to shipped features

Visa Inc.

User Experience Designer

Austin, TX · March 2020 – July 2021

  • Designed global payment product experiences across web and mobile platforms for enterprise clients
  • Partnered with PMs to define edge cases and user scenarios, translating requirements into testable designs
  • Applied atomic design principles across design system work, building consistent component patterns from atoms up to full page templates
  • Delivered high-fidelity prototypes for usability testing and executive presentations

Harland Clarke

Interaction Designer

San Antonio, TX · November 2017 – December 2019

  • Built the complete front end for a branded merchandise e-commerce flow and its product customization tool — hand-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, responsive across all devices
  • Designed the experiences, then implemented them myself, working directly with back-end engineers and stakeholders
  • Partnered with product managers to translate business requirements into user-centered solutions

Konverge

Lead UX/UI Designer

Austin, TX · August 2017 – December 2017

  • Designed end-to-end UX for Wahez, a social learning platform — defined the UX and UI vision and drove it through developer handoff
  • Produced wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes using Sketch and InVision

TripChamp

UI/UX Designer

Austin, TX · April 2016 – May 2017

  • Designed user flows and redesigned interfaces to be responsive across screens for a travel-tech startup
  • Created sales-focused landing pages to improve engagement and conversion
  • Connected design decisions to KPIs and assisted with quantitative and qualitative user research