Katelyn (Kied) Fugaban
Woodbury,MN
Summary
Product designer and accessibility advocate specializing in UX-focused software prototyping. Leveraging generative AI to enhance product workflows and defect analysis while prioritizing user needs and accessibility standards.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Member
Caribou Coffee
, Minnesota
01.2023 - Current
- Delivered accurate, welcoming service in a high-volume environment while balancing speed, changing priorities, food safety standards, and individualized customer needs to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Resolved customer concerns calmly, communicated clearly with teammates, and identified small experience failures to maintain service quality.
Product Designer and Quality Lead
Independent
01.2026
- Designed a web app with Codex that turns a simple MIDI song sketch into an editable full arrangement while preserving the artist's melody, chords, lyrics, and harmonic identity.
- Defined musical roles for pads, strings, synths, and FX, creating section-specific controls that enable artists to transition from a single MIDI input to functional DAW and Pro Tools workflows.
- Established quality guardrails to ensure coherent arrangements, separating registers and preventing duplicate pad layers while limiting counter-melodies to assigned melodic-support instruments.
- Tested app on real song, identifying missing instrumental roles, register collisions, and competing outputs; convert failures into actionable product requirements.
- Developed a MIDI arrangement application for music production.
Product Quality and Systems Designer
Nür Petals Arabic Learning App
01.2026
- Designed a web app with Codex for learning Arabic
- Identified critical Arabic audio mapping defect that misrepresented /b/ as /h/; established 28-letter mapping, clarified fallback cues, and implemented tests for tiles, hints, and replay behavior.
- Designed a seven-scenario Journey Simulator covering early use, sustained use, partial sessions, legacy data, replay heavy behavior, and long gaps; used deterministic fixtures and diagnostics to expose continuity failures before release.
- Investigated defects in learner state, account switching, offline and cloud behavior, migrations, audio, and adaptive selection; documented reproducible conditions and likely root causes to facilitate implementation.
- Established regression gates with 18 focused tests including lint checks, production builds, and manual scenarios; tracked baseline failures to differentiate regressions from existing issues.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Italian Studies
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
01-2026
Skills
- QUALITY Scenario testing, defect reproduction, acceptance criteria, root-cause analysis; UX Workflow design, usability evaluation, accessibility, user advocacy; TECHNICAL AI-assisted product development and prompt engineering; LANGUAGES English, Italian
Timeline
Product Designer and Quality Lead
Independent
01.2026
Product Quality and Systems Designer
Nür Petals Arabic Learning App
01.2026
Team Member
Caribou Coffee
01.2023 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Italian Studies
University of Minnesota Twin Cities