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Meghan Kelley
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Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems @ Zendesk

About Me

I’m a product designer, end-end based in San Francisco. I specialize in UI design and building design systems. With over 7 years of design experience, I’ve worked in museum design, B2B and AI for early stage startups and science education non profits helping them innovate and thrive. I have a passion for creating, evolving and maintaining design systems. I’m currently evolving Greenhouse, Zendesk’s design system for their Brand and Marketing teams. Greenhouse has gained tremendous adoption since my arrival at Zendesk, so lookout for hiring opportunities as we continue to grow our design systems team. At Kelvin (A.I. Series C machine data management startup for oil and gas) I lead the creation of a design system from the ground up. I designed and defined interaction patterns for responsive data tables, menus, style guides, toolkits and components. I created documentation and evangelized UI consistency with product and engineering teams to help expand system level thinking. I also did feature product improvements end to end as a key contributor product designer. At Granular (SaaS startup in agriculture management and operations), my focus was product design for the CFO and CEO allowing them to analyze and improve their crop and business decisions with financial data. I also worked on creating their design system. At the California Academy of Sciences (non profit science museum) I created award winning science based interactive experiences for exhibits and websites. Won a Webby Honoree Award. I'm classically trained in Industrial Design from RISD with over 7 years experience. I seek to understand the human experience that helps organizations thrive. Analytical thinking and empathetic problem solving I believe drives meaningful design that solves real world problems. When I'm not designing, you'll find me wood carving or woodworking, creating Pre-K activities, and jogging on the beach with my husband and daughter. Specialties: Design Systems Product Design Project Management Product UI User Experience Design User Interface Design User Research Interaction Design Information Architecture Prototyping

My Skills

  • Design Systems
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Product Design
  • User Experience

My Career

Senior Digital Designer, Design SystemsZendeskDecember 2020 - November 2022

Design MentorDesigned.org 2020 - February 2021

Product Designer, Design SystemsKelvin Inc.March 2017 - 2019

Product DesignerGranularDecember 2014 - January 2017

Interaction Designer, Digital Engagement StudioCalifornia Academy of SciencesNovember 2011 - July 2014

My Education

Rhode Island School of DesignBFA, Industrial Design Graduated -2007

Academy of Art UniversityMFA in progress, Web Design New Media Graduated -2011

My Details

Country
  • United States
Languages
    Years of Experience
    • 15+ years
    Timezone
    • Pacific Standard Time
    Member Since
    • June 30, 2020

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