Kelly Stevens

Product designer who leads teams designing software at global scale.

September 2024

WeTransfer File Requests — Enabled creative professionals to request and receive, not just send, files on WeTransfer. Collab with Nathan Beck and Matthew Willse in my role as design manager of the Retention pillar.

January 2022

WeTransfer Premium — Lead product designer of WeTransfer's Premium plan. Designed the new pricing page and mapped the UX of subscribing to/from all paid plans. Part of a company push for an IPO attempt.

February 2021

Designlab — Spoke to 300+ design students about online portfolios.

March 2019

Smartify Tours — While leading design for the award-winning arts and culture startup, I designed a self-guided tours feature that connected museum visitors with bespoke audio, video, and AR content.

October 2018

Messenger 4 — Part of the team that redesigned the audio/video call interface for 1B+ users in a global overhaul of Facebook Messenger. I delivered the design spec for the core call UI.

August 2018

Messenger AR Games — Part of an experimental team that developed the first AR multiplayer games and effects on Messenger video chat.

October 2015

Tripadvisor Apple TV app — Designed Tripadvisor's first Apple TV app to help travelers plan their next trip in the comfort of their living rooms. Featured as a "Best New App" in the App Store.

About Kelly

Hey! I'm Kelly. Thanks for visiting my little corner of the internet.

I'm an American product design leader based in the Netherlands since 2018. For the past 11 years, I've shipped consumer products with multidisciplinary product teams of all sizes, from startups to scale-ups to big tech companies.

I was most recently a Senior Product Design Manager at WeTransfer, where I supported a globally distributed team of designers and researchers in the Retention pillar. In that role I experienced the joy of investing in a team long-term: coaching great people as they grow their careers, enabling them to do their best work, recruiting and onboarding new talent, and leveling up the team’s collective craft and influence.

Before joining WeTransfer, I was the only designer at Smartify, an award-winning arts and culture startup that created the world's most downloaded museum app.

I spent the formative years of my design career in the United States. At Messenger, I helped design the audio and video call experience for 1B+ users, where I learned what it takes to design at the biggest levels of scale. At Tripadvisor, I started out as an intern and later designed the travel site's native iPhone, Android, and Apple TV apps.

My educational background is in media studies and journalism. I studied graphic design at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, one of the top public communications programs in the U.S.

In life off-screen I'm very fortunate to divide my time between a village near Amsterdam and the Italian Alps.

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