KRISTEN KELLY
San Francisco,CA
Summary
Senior UX/Product Designer with 10+ years of experience and a foundation in visual design. Built AI-powered, human-centered products at Microsoft, Adobe, and in health tech. Skilled in research, strategy, and zero-to-one design that blends data, storytelling, and usability.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founding Senior UX Designer (Equity-Based)
Stealth Health Tech Startup
08.2025 - Current
- Leading design at an early-stage health tech startup, driving UX strategy and execution.
- Managing and mentoring a designer, overseeing end-to-end product design for an AI-driven wellness platform.
- Building the design system, research framework, and prototypes to support MVP launch.
UX Design Lead
Harmona (Stanford Capstone)
03.2025 - 05.2025
- Company Overview: AI Recovery Guidance for Women Athletes
- Designed AI-powered app concept for cycle-aware recovery support.
- Surveyed 10+ women on needs around mood, menstruation, and recovery.
- Prototyped chatbot with explainable artificial intelligence and wearable data integration.
- Focused on ethical AI, user autonomy, and inclusive design through clean, intuitive user interfaces.
- AI Recovery Guidance for Women Athletes
Career Development & Personal Projects
Various companies
05.2022 - Current
- Prioritized family while training for and completing the Boston Marathon.
- Supported loved ones through health challenges and deepened professional growth through Google UX Research participation (Fitbit) and Stanford's UX/UI for AI certification.
Product Designer, Outlook Search
Microsoft
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Led UX for Outlook's web-based Search Refiners, improving precision for 400M+ users.
- Simplified filter flows, increasing adoption in A/B testing.
- Led accessibility improvements, ensuring features met WCAG 2.1 standards.
- Delivered Figma toolkit, streamlining cross-team collaboration.
Sr. UX Designer, Document Cloud
Adobe
03.2020 - 11.2020
- Enhanced the design system for Acrobat, unifying UX across three Cloud products and improving cross-platform consistency.
- Drove ideation and rapid prototyping for new AI-powered features, accelerating concept validation and improving usability outcomes.
- Introduced modular design patterns, boosting team efficiency and streamlining alignment across platforms.
Contract and Consulting
Various companies
01.2018 - 01.2023
- Worked with clients across health tech, education, and retail to deliver UX strategy, user research, and interaction design solutions.
- Clients: Nike, United Airlines, AstraZeneca, Pandia Health, General Assembly.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Art - Graphic Design
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL01.2015
Skills
- Figma
- Sketch
- InVision
- JIRA
- Google Suite
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Creative Suite
- DC
- XD
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- After Effects
- Lightroom
- Mac OS
- IOS
- UX/UI
- Print & Digital Design
- Graphic Design
- Interaction
- Animation
- Optimization
- Information Architecture
- User Flows
- Wireframes
- Interviewing
- Prototyping
- Usability Testing
- Accessibility
- Red Line Specs
- Presentations
- AGILE
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript/jQuery
- AI & EMERGING TECH
- Large Language Models
- Prototyping AI Designs
- Generative Agents
- Explainable AI (XAI)
- Human AI-Interaction
- Prompt Design
- AI UX
Certification
- UI/UX Design for AI Products, Stanford Online
- User Experience Design Immersive, General Assembly
- Front-end Web Development, General Assembly
Timeline
Founding Senior UX Designer (Equity-Based)
Stealth Health Tech Startup
08.2025 - Current
UX Design Lead
Harmona (Stanford Capstone)
03.2025 - 05.2025
Career Development & Personal Projects
Various companies
05.2022 - Current
Product Designer, Outlook Search
Microsoft
10.2021 - 04.2022
Sr. UX Designer, Document Cloud
Adobe
03.2020 - 11.2020
Contract and Consulting
Various companies
01.2018 - 01.2023
Bachelor of Fine Art - Graphic Design
Florida Atlantic University
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