Strategic leadership for complex ecosystems
Katy Harris is a product design executive and former founder who brings together a rare blend of hands-on design craft, technical fluency, and operational leadership. Her career spans front-end engineering, visualization design, startup founding, and design leadership across enterprise software, where she has helped shape products, teams, and strategy from early concept through scale.
Unique expertise
Operational leadership
20+ years blurring the lines between design, engineering, product, and business leadership
Drive strategy for complex, enterprise, AI-enabled product ecosystems
Founding team member for two startups with one acquisition
Design leadership
Director-level design leader
Principal-level product designer with strengths in zero-to-one products, data visualization, and creative programming
Adjunct professor of information and interaction design
Unique approach
Zero‑to‑one leadership and resilience for high‑stakes enterprise content
Zero‑to‑one playbook for post‑acquisition product and org sprawl
Entrepreneurship practice for evolving, ambiguous products
Focused UX and visualization interventions for dense economic‑complexity research
Data storytelling patterns for complex investigative reporting
ML‑powered data visualization for real‑world fraud detection systems
Unique point of view
Writing and talks I’ve given lately at the intersection of design, innovation, entrepreneurship, and experimentation.
Lagniappe
A collection of extras and highlights
Next steps
Let’s connect.
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