Summary
Ken Skistimas is a senior design leader based in San Francisco with 20+ years shaping multi-surface product experiences and over a decade leading design system efforts at major tech companies. He has built and scaled design systems at Meta, GE Digital (Predix), Salesforce and ServiceNow, driving cross-platform visual languages and accessible, production-ready UI libraries consumed by hundreds of designers. Ken combines hands-on pattern and component design with organizational strategy—hiring and growing distributed teams, creating engagement programs, and defining pragmatic rollout and quality-audit processes that accelerate time to market. He’s skilled at bridging brand and product, applying brand primitives into usable systems for web, mobile and VR while maintaining strict accessibility standards. Notably, he helped open-source a corporate design system at GE and led design system transitions from internal tools to Figma at scale. His background in communication design and early work on data-dense visualizations informs a pragmatic, data-informed approach to system-level UX.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Communication Design, Communication Design at University of North Texas