Scott Weber

I'm a self-taught design leader with 20+ years in government services. I take complex, policy-heavy legacy systems and make them clear and accessible.

I came up tinkering on the web in the '90s and have spent my career on the services people rely on at important moments in their lives: health care, benefits, retirement, and funding.

I'm currently a Principal Product Designer at Skylight, working on product design, strategy, modernization, and accessibility for the Administration for Children and Families. Before that I led design at Ad Hoc (VA, CMS), was an Innovation Specialist at 18F, and spent ten years as Creative Director at NIC Inc. building Kentucky's state websites and applications.

My style is low-ego and direct. I share work early, make decisions visible, and try to leave teams with practices that keep working after I've moved on.

Selected work

Veterans Health Administration Enrollment System

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Manager of Design · 2023 - 2025

Modernized the primary healthcare system for over 9 Million Veterans. Replaced a non-linear 1990s legacy system with guided registration workflows, automated external data checks to prevent duplicate records, and established reusable design patterns.
CMS Design System

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Design System Lead · 2019 - 2023

Scaled the core system powering Healthcare.gov, Medicare.gov, and CMS.gov. Expanded the team from 1 to 8 cross-functional members, consolidated 14+ fragmented resources into a single source of truth (design.cms.gov), and built a multi-brand token system for component scaling.
Thrift Savings Plan

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Innovation Specialist & Front-End/UX Lead · 2018 - 2019

Modernized the public-facing digital experience for federal retirement savings. Implemented USWDS standards, coached agency staff to establish an in-house user feedback loop, and enabled long-term agency ownership over iterative site enhancements.
America's Seed Fund

National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR Program

Product designer · 2017

Rebranded the NSF Small Business Innovation Research program as "America's Seed Fund". Redesigned the public experience (seedfund.nsf.gov) to demystify federal funding, boost applicant awareness, and diversify the startup founder pool beyond traditional research institutions.

Other projects I've worked on

Simpler, smarter, and more human-centered government technology.

USWDS Jekyll theme

Helped start and grow the static-site theme.
18F Methods

Co-managed a restructure of the methods guide and its front end.
Kentucky.gov

Led redesigns and re-architecture as Creative Director.
Login.gov

Streamlined account creation with the experience team.
eApp application

Simplified a long, complex security clearance form into a guided experience built on USWDS.
Cloud.gov

Built app UI in React and clarified the public site's value proposition.

Who I've worked with

Organizations and agencies I've worked with across federal, state, and local government.

Federal

State