Erik Kennedy
Founder Designer at Kennedy Design, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Kennedy is a designer-founder with 13 years of experience building user interfaces, products, and education programs from startups to Fortune 100 clients. He founded Learn UI Design and scaled the online school to over 5,000 students worldwide while continuing freelance work for brands like Amazon, Soylent, and GiveWell. His background blends hands-on UI/UX design and prototyping with technical foundations from a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Earlier roles at Microsoft and Kiva show experience running large user studies, shipping service transitions, and applying natural-language search to real systems. Erik combines product-savvy teaching with practical implementation skills, routinely turning complex UX problems into clear, prototype-driven solutions. Based in Seattle, he balances entrepreneurial leadership with a decades-long studio practice.
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 (35)
opentype10
fonts10
typeface10
webfonts10
geometric10
ufo10
variable-fonts10
woff10
truetype10
google-fonts10
stock9
flair9
ux-design9
react8
infrastructure8
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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