I’m Katy, a UX Designer, dreamer, and A11y advocate with a passion for story telling

Google Ads Case Study

UX Designed in tool user education for Keyword Planner, a public facing product of Google Ads

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Bilates Case Study

Designed a comprehensive brand platform for online fitness education

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Parsnip Case Study

Mobile app research and community engagement for an early stage startup

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"I hired Katy for a contract position at Google as an Accessibility Designer role. From her first day, her throughput, proactiveness, and engagement with multiple product teams was exceptional. As a manager of a sizable organization, Katy's ability to be self-directed and foster healthy stakeholder management (UX & ENG) was superb. I was impressed how she was able to provide accessibility expert guidance to UX Design, UX Content, and FE engineers in such a short period of time!" --Doris Neubauer, L7 UX Director, Google Customer Engagement
"Katy demonstrated exceptional work ethics, good ability to listen and take input from a diverse group of people across multiple functions (eng, ux, pm, management stakeholders), express her ideas and drive the project to completion." --Baldvin Kovács, L6 SWE-SRE, Team Lead @ Google
"I had the pleasure of working with Katy during her contracting period at Google. Katy is a multi-talented designer that approaches every problem with enthusiasm - even when faced with difficult stakeholders. The project that we collaborated on was both complex and at a massive scale - touching nearly every product development team within the company. Katy was able to craft a bespoke experience for users by creating custom components where needed while ensuring that the quality remained intact. She even stepped up by running her own usability testing despite not having UXR support. I hope to get the opportunity to work with Katy again." --Elizabeth Rubel, L5 Senior Interaction Designer @ Google
"Katy was a pleasure to work with in every sense. Her approach toward visual storytelling in our team helped shape Smithsonian Earth's digital style and voice. Katy has a unique ability to listen carefully to the clients needs and also contribute creatively to shape it. She's reliable, fast in edit, extremely pleasant to work with, dedicated and passionate person all around- an asset to have on any team." --Anisa Peters, Senior Producer at Smithsonian Channel

About

I'm a pandemic transplant from Brooklyn to Denver with UX experience that spans big tech companies such as Google to early stage tech startups. My background (10 yrs) is in documentary editing Emmy award winning films for companies such as National Geographic and Smithsonian Channel.

Working for Google has sculpted my approach to collaborating with cross-functional engineers, product managers, UX researchers, and writers. Connecting on a human level is key to solid communication and synergy.

When not working hard, I play hard-- white water kayaking & rafting, rock & ice climbing, backcountry & resort skiing, mountain & road biking. I particularly love sharing my outdoor passions with underserved youth outdoor programing.