Kyle Lee
I lead design for enterprise products and obsess over why they succeed or fail after launch. I work across the full product arc, research, strategy, design, and launch, and I'm most effective when I'm setting direction alongside product and engineering, not just executing it.
7 years shipping enterprise products at scale. Currently Senior Innovation Designer at Northwestern Mutual.
I lead design for enterprise products and obsess over why they succeed or fail after launch. I work across the full product arc, research, strategy, design, and launch, and I'm most effective when I'm setting direction alongside product and engineering, not just executing it.
7 years shipping enterprise products at scale. Currently Senior Innovation Designer at Northwestern Mutual.
Work
Work
Experience
Experience
Northwestern Mutual - Senior Innovation Designer
Northwestern Mutual - Senior Innovation Designer
2024 - Now
Doblin / Deloitte Digital - Senior Designer Consultant
Doblin / Deloitte Digital - Senior Designer Consultant
2018 - 2024
Carnegie Mellon University - BDes, Product Design
Carnegie Mellon University - BDes, Product Design
How I Work
How I Work
Systems over features - I think in systems, platforms, capabilities, and the decision structures teams need to keep building after launch.
Systems over features - I think in systems, platforms, capabilities, and the decision structures teams need to keep building after launch.
Trust before technology - Technology alone doesn't create transformation. The interface is rarely the real problem.
Trust before technology - Technology alone doesn't create transformation. The interface is rarely the real problem.
Design with, not for - Customer obsessed. The richest insights come from giving people the pen.
Design with, not for - Customer obsessed. The richest insights come from giving people the pen.
Past and Present
Past and Present
Teaching Craft is Experience Design - I teach woodworking in Brooklyn, watching someone build their first stool is a live lesson in trust-building and what it means to design an experience, not just a product.
Teaching Craft is Experience Design - I teach woodworking in Brooklyn, watching someone build their first stool is a live lesson in trust-building and what it means to design an experience, not just a product.
Community Building through Camps - 15+ years with Korean American youth camps. Camp taught me you can't engineer community, only design conditions and trust what emerges.
Community Building through Camps - 15+ years with Korean American youth camps. Camp taught me you can't engineer community, only design conditions and trust what emerges.
Unlearning the Default Path - A gap year in Nepal questioning assumptions I didn't know I had. The same skill I use in design: understanding whose perspective shapes the problem.
Unlearning the Default Path - A gap year in Nepal questioning assumptions I didn't know I had. The same skill I use in design: understanding whose perspective shapes the problem.
Let's Connect
Let's Connect
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