# Kevin Kell

> Principal / Lead / Staff UX Designer for AI and Agents

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinkell

"The right experience is not merely the simplest one, but the one that best fits your needs." 

As a UX designer, my experiences range from working independently and in design teams for both consumer and enterprise software development environments. I have an extensive background in creating designs for many high-profile products and companies such as Dreamworks, Intuit, Cisco, Apple, and Yahoo!. My work has been seen by millions of users. 

Design Areas: FinTech, Cloud (Sales & Customer Service), AI, Social Networking, and Collaboration
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## Work Experience
### Designer / Founder @ Gatherd AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Founder of an AI startup that is revolutionizing the way people store and process their own information.

### Lead Designer, Founder @ Usable AI
Jan 2023 – Present | Silicon Valley, California, United States

### Board Member, University of California - Irvine CX Program @ University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Jan 2022 – Present | Silicon Valley, California, United States

### User Experience Architect @ Virtana Corp.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Silicon Valley, California, United States
Led the planning and design for a significant platform UX evolution, redesigning legacy features and creating new ones on the cloud side by conducting research, delivering personas, task flows and models
Delivered a brand-new AI-driven platform vision in 6 months with wireframes and prototypes

### Staff Product Designer @ ServiceNow
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Served as Architect and Design Lead for multiple products 
Designed prototypes and features in Figma for Portal, Avatar and Presence, Landing Pages, Component Testing Console, Voice AI, Virtual (Conversational) Assistant, and AI Search

### Principal User Experience Designer @ Cleo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Silicon Valley, CA
Led the design on their Cloud Integration platform, taking a technical legacy interface and redesigning it for non-technical users allowing them to build data, API, application, and cloud integrations
Designed the post-sales customer experience with a new interaction model and ease of use features

### Lead User Experience Designer @ Oracle
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019
Provided design leadership to Sales and Service projects (with AI) in the SaaS Cloud CRM platform. Some notable projects include design lead on New Support Portal, a ground-up redesign of the main support tool for Oracle's 20,000 member support staff responsible for $20 billion in revenue yearly. Was design owner for the Cloud Field Sales project where I ran the entire UX development project from basic user research and transforming them into realistic UX prototypes as a POC.

### Senior User Experience Designer @ Badgeville
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park, CA
Redesigned company’s gamification platform in 10 months by conducting research with customers, understanding current support issues, building personas, task-object models, task flows, and a new architecture. The effort brought a new consumer-grade user experience to the platform and was overwhelmingly approved by customers

### Senior User Experience Designer (Contract) @ Apple
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cupertino, CA
Designed 3 sales tools for Apple internally using a full-cycle design process from user research to high-fidelity mockups adhering to the Apple design system. 
Designed a sales product for the sales groups to coordinate sales and marketing of the iPhone and iPad worldwide. Also worked on-site with business sales teams to improve invoicing process for Apple stores

### Senior User Experience Designer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Lead designer on WebEx Social, a high-profile collaborative social networking platform is central to Cisco’s collaboration strategy. 
Created designs for product areas like content, collaboration, and administration. 
Worked closely with other design leads to produce a consumer feel to the user experience.

### Principal Product Designer @ UsableXperience Consulting
Jan 1998 – Jan 2011
UsableXperience was a boutique User Experience consulting firm in Silicon Valley run by myself.
Clients included Intuit, Intel, Yahoo!, and NetApp.

### User Experience Design Consultant @ DreamWorks Animation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010

### User Experience Design Consultant @ NetApp
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### User Experience Design Consultant @ Intuit
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008

### User Experience Design Consultant @ Yahoo!
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
Managed requirements and design proposals

### User Experience Design Consultant @ Intel Capital
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006

### Senior UX Designer @ Plumtree Software
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004

### User Experience Design Consultant @ Cisco
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002


## Education
### Master of Arts - MA in Human Computer Interaction - Social Psychology
University of Cincinnati

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology
Indiana University South Bend


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kkell
- Portfolio: http://www.uxpr.com/kell.pdf

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Last updated: 2026-04-13