KELLY

HURLBURT

DESIGNER BY DAY
MAKER BY NIGHT
I am always trying new craft hobbies.
I live in Brooklyn, but I sometimes schlep to Manhattan.
During the pandemic, I moved to the desert and taught myself how to quilt.
I love traveling, hiking, and landscape photography.
I spend many weekends at art museums.
I used to be a college radio DJ.

Kelly Hurlburt is a user experience designer based in New York City.

Kelly hails from upstate New York, where she transformed her childhood obsession with Kid Pix into a career in design. She loves digging into complex technical problems, designing systems, and turning user research into product strategy. She believes designers have a responsibility to create products that are inclusive, impactful, and ethical.

In her free time, Kelly loves to ditch computer pixels and experiment with analog crafts. Her running list of projects includes crochet, quilting, pottery, and clay jewelry. She also loves traveling, hiking, photographing landscapes, and visiting art museums. 

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Experience

ADOBE 

Staff Experience Designer, Creative Cloud Services

Work on high-level product strategy, information architecture, and foundational cloud platform features across multiple cloud service teams. 2022-Present

Senior Experience Designer, Libraries

Co-led design for Adobe's cloud-based brand and design system solution. Key initiatives included integration with Adobe XD, new organization features, and the introduction of team libraries. 2020-2022

Experience Designer, Assets & Collaboration

Collaborated on designs for Adobe's cloud platform. Key initiatives included a redesign of the platform's website, vision concepts for future cloud collaboration features, and a comprehensive audit of asset workflows across Creative Cloud's ~two dozen apps. 2017-2020

CREATIVE CARROT — VICE DIGITAL AGENCY

Design Intern

Created graphics and assets for client pitches, client campaigns, and internal branding projects. Collaborated with a 16-person intern team to pitch a multi-platform campaign to Dove Men+Care. Summer 2016

RIT PRODUCTION SERVICES 

Multimedia Specialist

Worked with a team of designers and editors to create promotional videos for the university. Acted as a hybrid art director — designing video graphics, consulting on editing and sound design, collaborating on scripts and storyboards, and producing film shoots. 2014-2017

WITR 89.7 RADIO

General Manager

Managed the long-term strategy and day-to-day functions of RIT's college radio station, including 5 departments and 80+ student staff. Led the station's rebrand and overhauled staff training. 2015-2017

Key skills

  • UX/UI design
  • Information architecture
  • User flows
  • Qualitative user research
  • Product strategy
  • Illustration

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

BFA, New Media Design '17
Summa Cum Laude
Honors Program
4.0 GPA

Certifications

Disability Inclusion & Accessible Design Certificate

Completed an 18-hour course through the University of Michigan's continuing education programs. 2021

Volunteer events

Desert X Festival

Desert X is a bi-annual festival that features large, outdoor art installations in locations across the Palm Springs area for several months. I acted as a docent, educating visitors about the installations. Spring 2021

DeYoung Museum

The deYoung Art Museum in San Francisco hosts an annual, family-friendly fundraising event called the deYoungsters Art Party. I collaborated with other designers to create interactive installations for the event. 2019-2021

Open Books

Open Books is a literacy foundation based in Chicago. One of their education programs teaches middle and high schoolers how to write and publish their own books. I designed book covers for student writers. 2017-2020

Mentoring

  • Act as a mentor for new grads and career-changers in Adobe Design's Mentor program. 2021-Present
  • Regularly present my experience working in design to students at General Assembly and participate in portfolio reviews. 2020-Present
  • Regularly participate in portfolio reviews for RIT's New Media Club (my alma mater design program). 2017-Present
  • Spoke at a panel InternCon, a conference run by tech interns for tech interns. 2020
  • Hosted a day-long design workshop with students from the Inneract Project, a program that provides design classes to under-represented high schoolers. 2019

KELLY HURLBURT

Brooklyn, NY
kelly.a.hurlburt@gmail.com
585.689.9792

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