Kristofer Skrade

Kristofer Skrade

Principal UX & Product Designer

I design pattern libraries, data-dense workflows and the research behind them, for software portfolios with hundreds of products.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Where I’ve done the work

  • Siemens Digital Industries Software
  • eLumen
  • 15171517 Media
  • Sparkhouse
  • Augsburg Fortress
  • LACCD (client)
  • Savannah College of Art and Design, M.A.

Selected work

12 projects from Siemens, eLumen and my research. Open a project to see the problem, what I did, and the full-size artifacts.

About

  • Based inMinneapolis, Minnesota
  • Most recently
  • Education
  • IndustriesEngineering and PLM software, higher-ed SaaS, publishing
  • Work setupRemote, hybrid, or on-site in the Twin Cities

I’m a hands-on UX and product designer who also leads. At Siemens Digital Industries Software I drove design system alignment across a 330+ product portfolio, built a unified pattern library, and designed 3 AI tools for internal design teams.

Before that I founded the UX practice at eLumen, an 85-person EdTech startup with no UX function. I built a design system of more than 1,000 components, ran the contextual research behind it, and hired 3 designers and embedded each in a dev team.

Earlier, at 1517 Media and Sparkhouse, I took 12 multimedia curriculum systems from concept to release and led the creative teams that made them.

I like to find the real problem first. Then I ship the simplest thing that fixes it.

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From my doodle bookA scan from my personal doodle journal. Last one. Swear.