Katie Daw

product designer

It's me!

I got into UX because I love making stuff but dislike most technical software. It's too hard! We shouldn't have to fight against our humanity to collapse a menu pane in Blender. I design products for the rest of us-- who are only as stupid as our tools ✨

👹 Me as a person:

  • Friendly
  • Super brave
  • Hand talker 🙈
  • Amateur unicyclist
  • Can't pronounce "Guillermo del Toro" on the first try
  • Used to animate Squidbillies and Aqua Teen Hunger Force

🎨 Me as a designer:

Visual Design
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Interaction Design
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Research/Interviews
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Design system setup
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Prototyping
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Catch me on the web:

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My favorite projects

⬆️ Upload Flow 2.0

Uploading media to the JWP library should have been exciting! Instead it made you want to die. Join me as I take the most fundamental flow in the dashboard from drab to fab

📺 Build an OTT App

On the surface, this is the story of an easy tool that allows non-technical customers to build an app to display their content. But more than that, it was a joyful scramble to create a great solution with very little time to spare.

🔠 Caption Editor

Weirdly, the closed caption editor in the JWP dashboard wasn't that accessible. Let's create a nice clear flow that will have make our customers love adding captions.

Incredible presentation skills!

I used to be an animator and still enjoy whipping out my motion design skills whenever possible 💪

IMO the biggest accessibility issue with presentations is how boring they are, so I'm a big proponent of unexpected silliness.

At the time of winter Hack Week 2021, there were whispers that JW Player was in the conceptual stages of an e-learning platform. I really really really wanted to work on it so I flexed super hard in an effort to be the most obvious guy for the job.
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PS: I WON despite not knowing how to code 🏆
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PPS: I kept winning so consistently that they had to change the prize categories to make sure engineers had a fair shot 💅

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Watch more of my presentation videos
"It's not fair! Katie had multiple actors, including a professor, and a cameo from... Plato?"
- coworker

let me figure out how your product should work

🌈 So your users don't have to 🌈