Howdy, I'm Katie Shultz

I’m a UX/UI designer from Austin, TX. When I'm not pixel-pushing, I'm cooking, cycling, painting, or helping my friends with their projects.

The most important thing to me is community. We're all in this together; let's build each other up by building for each other.

2025

Freelance UX Designer

Completed UX Academy with Designlab

🤓 Skills acquired: Product strategy, brand design

💪 Skills refined: Research, information architecture and system design

2023

Promotion to Systems Analyst IV at DDS (SSA)

🤓 Skills acquired: Data analysis, business process creation, information architecture and system design, information security (claimant data loss prevention)

💪 Skills refined: Leadership, cross-team collaboration

2022

Completed Google UX Certificate with Coursera

🤓 Skills acquired: UX Research and design

💪 Skills refined: Critical thinking, analysis, time-management

2018

Disability Claims Examiner at DDS (SSA)

🤓 Skills acquired: Investigation, caseload management, medical and vocational analysis

💪 Skills refined: Customer service, time management, communication, interviewing

2015

Bartender

Graduation from Hendrix College

🤓 Skills acquired: Leadership, customer service, employee management

💪 Skills refined: Research, communication, critical thinking, analysis, time-management, organization

History

I finished my first UX course, a self-led Google course on Coursera, in Fall 2022 and was ready to start looking for jobs. My search for a UX job took a back seat when I was promoted at the very beginning of 2023. I decided to take advantage of the new position to learn as much as a I could. And I did!

In my new position, I learned about data analysis, the creation and streamlining of business processes, and refined my communication and cross-functional team skills. I was part of the Personal Identifiable Information (PII, e.g. social security numbers, medical information) Loss Prevention team and held government security clearance.

Because I was collaborating with engineers, I also have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and, because of my data analysis tasks within MicroStrategy and pgAdmin, SQL.

I've since finished my second UX course, this time with Designlab, which I felt prepared me more thoroughly for entering UX. I've now started my career as a freelance UX Designer.

Software and Skills

Design tools: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision

AI: ChatGPT, Lovable, Emergent

Suites: Google and Microsoft Office

Website builders: Webflow, WordPress, Squarespace

UX Design

UX Research

UX Writing and Copywriting

Product Design and Strategy

Brand Design

Prototyping

Wireframes

High-Fidelity Mock-ups

Links

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