👋🏼 Howdy. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm a Senior Product Lead at Design Like You Mean It,
where I head up product discovery, design strategy, and helping clients get super user-curious.
Previously at CVS/Aetna and SonderMind
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Nothing in isolation
The system works best if all the parts work together and contribute to the whole. Seek to understand how each part affects each other to build usable and scalable solutions.
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Bring 'em along
Stakeholders, teammates, users–you gotta bring 'em along with you. Communicate early and often. Move forward together with shared understanding. This builds inclusivity into your solution, instills trust, and increases efficiency.
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Keep it simple.
The simplest solution is usually the best one. The world is already complex enough, so lean into predictability and clarity and away from bells and whistles that just make noise.
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You are not your user. (!!!)
Users are not a monolith. Your own thoughts and feelings (or those of your neighbor, best friend, etc.) are a single data point in the sea of your diverse target audience.
Principal Product Designer at Homeward
"Kate's design solutions are thoughtful and innovative - pushing the boundaries of what's possible while remaining grounded in the needs of the user. Kate is a leader and a team player who elevates everyone around her."
Principal Content Strategist at Aetna/CVS
"Working with Kate showed me what it took to be a difference-making designer. She held workshops and testing sessions just as easily as she built up components and broke down deliverables, and that end-to-end fluency established her as a natural leader around the org."
Product Manager at Clubhouse
"She consistently brought the qualities I admire most: creative thinking, a generative mindset, meticulous attention to detail, strong collaboration, clear communication, and the courage to challenge ideas to make them better. She’s a cut above."
