Katy Harris is a strategic leader driving design vision and product strategy for complex software ecosystems — while never losing a passion for craft.
Areas of focus
This is not an exhaustive list, but is indicative of where I feel challenged and inspired these days.
Strategic Leadership
- Drive product design vision and strategy for B2C, B2B, and enterprise product ecosystems
- 20+ years navigating product design, engineering, and product management
- Translate complex systems for diverse audiences through strong facilitation and compelling storytelling
- Founding executive team member for two startups [one acquired in 2022 by RSA Archer]
Design Management
- Full stack design leader for multiple teams and products
- Build and develop teams capable of tackling complex use cases
- Staff-level product designer with particular individual strength in 0-1 products, design systems, and data visualization
- Adjunct professor of information and interaction design
Strategic Leadership
Leadership at an operational and functional level.
Entrepreneurship is design: stories from a design cofounder
Entrepreneurship is design: stories from a design cofounder
Founding teamHead of DesignHead of ProductStrategic leadershipSpeaking
Atlas Document Management
Atlas Document Management
Strategic leadershipFounding teamHead of Design
Rebuilding a design function
Rebuilding a design function
Strategic leadershipTactical leadershipProgram managementDesign manager
Trill
Trill
Co-founderHead of DesignHead of ProductStrategic leadershipCreative technologist
Design Management
Tactical design work of my own and/or while leading a larger team.
The Mentor and the Machine: Scaling Mentorship in the Age of AI
The Mentor and the Machine: Scaling Mentorship in the Age of AI
Colombian Atlas of Economic Complexity
Colombian Atlas of Economic Complexity
Project Voltron
Project Voltron
Building a distributed design sprint program
Building a distributed design sprint program
Connected China
Connected China
Galleries
Trill TEDx
Trill TEDx
Trill Presents
Trill Presents
Trill Tonight
Trill Tonight
Trill IRL
Trill IRL
FIS Memento
FIS Memento
Open India
Open India
GE Annual Reports
GE Annual Reports
Stalinism: A Dictator and his People
Stalinism: A Dictator and his People
Everywhere at Once: Narrative Multiplicity and the Digital Archive
Everywhere at Once: Narrative Multiplicity and the Digital Archive