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Kevin Korpi

Design

Microsoft Research

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Bend, OR, United States~17.7 yrs in the field
Product Design
Creative Direction
User Flow Design
UI Design
Wireframing
Web Design
UX Design
B2B Design
SaaS Design
Information Architecture
UX Strategy
Mockups
E-commerce Website Design
Mobile UX Design
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About

Kevin is a product designer and writer who works and plays in the hills of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past 20 years, he's contributed to messaging-based, conversational experiences with Microsoft Research; Android, ads, and analytics with Google; connected action cameras with Contour; devices and reading experiences at Amazon; and consumer, financial, and enterprise products in the US and Japan.

Experience

About 17.7 yrs of professional experience, estimated from the roles below (overlaps counted once).

  1. Owner and Product Designer

    Korpi Studio

    Jan 20018Present

    Led end-to-end product design and strategy for clients ranging from two people with a rough idea to seed and Series A startups and Fortune 100 corporations. Provided full-stack product design, including research, interaction, visual, prototyping, design systems, and strategy for iOS and Android apps and hardware-software interaction, including roadmap and feature definition. Delivered full-stack product design—including research, interaction, visuals, prototyping, and design systems—and strategy for consumer and B2B data-driven responsive web applications, including roadmap and feature definition.

  2. Principal Product Designer, Cameras and Hardware

    GoPro

    Feb 2022Oct 2023

    Led interaction, UX, and prototyping design for a brand new GoPro camera, the GoPro Hero 11 Black Mini. Worked directly with company leadership and founders to prioritize, design, and prototype features, designing flows and visuals for hundreds of on-camera screens and screen states. Contributed with new patterns to a global design system for a new product and form factor in the lineup.

  3. Product and Design Director | Camera

    Moment

    Jan 2017Jan 2019

    Led software design, engineering, and product management for Moment's connected hardware products and mobile applications. Acted as a sole individual contributor from inception to multiple releases of a complex camera application supporting connected hardware. Forecasted features, revenue, and scheduling for all features and releases. Worked directly with Apple on the App Store release and management of an application that receives the app of the day in multiple countries. Managed a team of designers and engineers working on camera and creative applications for iOS and Android

  4. Senior Designer

    Microsoft Research

    Jan 2015Dec 2017

    Led research-driven design for AI-based, cross-platform, conversational experiences and natural language processing. Designed and prototyped a developer platform for creating bots and conversational experiences. Created architecture and interaction models for consumer experiences of conversational interfaces.

  5. Design Lead

    Mighty A.I.

    Jan 2015Dec 2015

    Led design across the consumer iOS app, responsive web, and brand at an early stage, a venture-backed startup focused on expert-driven crowdsourced metadata cleanup. Created a modular, extensible design system for the Spare5 iOS application to support future growth and new product direction. Built the company's design practice across brand, web, and iOS, acting as the first designer hire.

  6. Staff Designer – Android

    Google

    Jan 2013Jan 2014

    Helped build a studio in the Seattle office as one of a handful of staff-level user experience designers on the Android design team. Led core platform features like the phone dialer and contacts while coordinating workshops and design sprints for yet-to-be-announced next-generation products. Acted as a key contributor to the initial release of Google Material Design.

  7. Vice President, Product

    Contour

    Jan 2011Dec 2013

    Drove and delivered the brand framework and product roadmaps across the product line. Managed all design and research processes deliverables, resources, and people across hardware, software, eCommerce, marketing, and retail experiences. Provided hands-on design for camera firmware and connected mobile apps across iOS and Android.

  8. Principal User Experience Designer – Kindle

    Amazon

    Jan 2010Mar 2011

    Served as the principal UX designer on the Kindle team. Led key design pieces for the Kindle app on iOS and Android tablets. Spearheaded the design for the first version of the Kindle Fire tabl

  9. Senior User Experience Designer

    Google

    Mar 2006Mar 2010

    Led the IA, taxonomy, and interaction design for AdWords, the largest full-stack redesign undertaken at Google at the time. Acted as the lead designer on Google Analytics and founding designer on Google's first landing page experimentation and optimization product, Google Website Optimizer. Contributed to multiple exploratory and unannounced products internally.

  10. Product Design Manager

    Microsoft

    Jan 2002Dec 2006

    Led the design and direction for a global, multi-lingual design system for Microsoft and associated properties. Spearheaded the design for all community features across Microsoft—like forums and chats—where I also managed outsourced and contractor design resources. Acted as a key contributor to email composition, experimentation, and the targeted communication platform.

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