I’m Kristen Young, a Senior Product Designer at Bain & Company, who strives to create empathetic designs in both the physical and digital environment. Born and raised in Hawaii, I’ve learned to advocate for a diverse and collaborative approach to solving problems.

Experience

Bain & CompanyLead Product Designer

2025 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborate across the design thinking process with over 20+ Fortune 500 clients- from deep customer understanding to conceptualizing, prototyping and testing

Bain & CompanySenior Product Designer

2022 — 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

Bain & CompanyProduct Designer

2021 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

KLSY StudiosSmall Business Owner

2020 — Now

San Francisco, California, United States

A small online business offering digital downloadable products.

Launched and currently maintaining an online business selling digital, downloadable art on multiple platforms.

Achieved 22k+ unique visits and 400+ sales in the first year of business by promoting across social media to increase traffic.

Run competitive audits to understand user trends and create elegant digital modern artwork that is consistent and on-brand.

UX/UI Designer

2021 — 2021

San Francisco, California, United States

Design and prototype impactful responsive websites and applications in response to complex problems.

Tandem: Conducted UX research for the nonprofit and delivered an information architecture, UI and branding, web redesign prototype.

PictureHum: Lead the design in translating and redesigning the visual identity of the PictureHum website to high-fidelity mock ups and design system for a mobile photo booking app.

Education

UCLA

Master of Architecture - MArch

Punahou School

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Education

Master of Architecture - MArch

Bachelor's Degree

Experience