# Kam Stewart

> Experience Design Leader - Ex-AWS, KP, HP, Palm

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kamstewart

I lead user experience design teams to create experiences customers love. 

I enjoy fast-paced, highly collaborative environments, where we combine human-centered design with design thinking to create great products. That means breaking assumptions, listening to customers, and creating designs that can delight customers in making sophisticated tasks easy and intuitive.

## Work Experience
### UX Consultant @ Self Employed
Jan 2025 – Present
UX consulting, including design for educational non-profit, and founding designer for a stealth startup.

### Sabbatical @ Self
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### UX Design Manager @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | East Palo Alto, California, United States
Led team of 7 designers, 1 researcher, for the second-largest Amazon web service.
Shipped a record 19 projects in 2023 including S3 Express One Zone, the first new storage class in 17 years – providing ultra-low latency storage for data lakes, ML/AI training, with associated features to enabling easy data population, and Access Grants to manage thousands of users over billions of assets.

### Design Lead, The Technology Group @ The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Head of Experience Design @ Stealth Mode Startup Company
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design Lead for HP Photo platform @ HP
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Director of User Experience, Worldwide @ Snapfish
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Head of Interaction @ Snapfish
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Part of HP Snapfish's design management team.

### Sr. UI Architect @ WideOrbit
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Designed the customer experience for a next generation advertising management system.

### Manager, Human Interface Group @ Palm, Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Managed User Experience, Visual Design and User Research for all Palm products.

### Director of Strategic Consulting @ Metaliq, Inc.
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
Strategic Consulting, including online/rich media strategy development.

### Design Lead @ LeapFrog
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Consulted to develop interaction models, application concepts and user interfaces for new flagship product.

### Founder | CEO @ Images in Light
Jan 1996 – Jan 2002
Founded an interactive development studio dedicated to, "Creating Compelling Interactive Experiences."

### Art Director & Producer @ Medior (sold to AOL)
Jan 1994 – Jan 1995

### Creative Director @ Mondo Media
Jan 1992 – Jan 1994


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design / Computer Graphics
Memphis College of Art

### ME/ENVD
University of Colorado Boulder

### Stevenson School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kamstewart
- Portfolio: http://kamstewart.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13