Erik Kennedy
Founder Designer at Learn UI Design
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Kennedy is a designer-entrepreneur with over a decade of UI/UX experience and a track record of turning design into scalable education and products. As founder of Learn UI Design, he built a global online school that now teaches UI design to 5,000+ students, while also leading Kennedy Design, Inc. to design mobile and web apps for clients ranging from Y‑Combinator startups to Fortune 100 companies. Based in Seattle and an alumnus of Olin College of Engineering, his background includes guiding large-scale programs at Microsoft, where he developed the largest user-study program in the history of Access and helped transition products from box to service. He blends hands-on design craft with strategic product leadership, turning complex requirements into practical, repeatable systems. With a history of working with major brands like Amazon, Soylent, and GiveWell, he combines entrepreneurial grit with user-centered thinking to deliver impact at scale.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (40)
opentype10
fonts10
typeface10
webfonts10
geometric10
ufo10
woff210
variable-fonts10
woff10
ligatures10
truetype10
google-fonts10
stock9
flair9
ux-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erikdkennedy/figtree
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
A friendly, simple geometric sans serif font
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 1 year 6 months
google-fontssans-serifwebfontsfontvariable-fonts
erikdkennedy/spark-joy
May 2020 - Aug 2024
✨😂easy ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product.
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
reactdelightcsswhimsyflair
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