Kevin Smith
Senior Product Designer at RentSpree
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Smith is a Senior Product Designer with over 15 years of experience crafting end-to-end digital experiences for startups and major retail brands. He blends UX, product strategy, and creative direction to align business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility across web, mobile, and in-store touchpoints. Kevin has led loyalty and commerce initiatives at household brands like Gap and experiential retail work for lululemon, while also running an AI storytelling and production studio that experiments with generative workflows. He’s fluent in modern design and prototyping tools (Figma, ProtoPie, Axure) and integrates AI into rapid prototyping, content generation, and on-the-fly user testing. As an instructor and mentor, he translates practical agency and enterprise experience into teachable craft, and his background in filmmaking and motion design adds cinematic polish to product interactions. Notably, Kevin describes himself as a “Vibe engineer,” pairing AI-driven prototypes with narrative-driven design to create cohesive, emotionally resonant experiences.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Journalism / Advertising / Video Production, BA Journalism / Advertising / Video Production at University of Oregonnone General ed, none General ed at California State University, ChicoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Italian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
graphql-api10
heroicons10
session-replay10
trigger10
api10
home-automation10
siri10
nodejs10
mongodb10
preload10
react-dom10
webhooks10
privacy10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
respectTheCode/android-studio-library-example
May 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 10 months
android-studioandroid-libraryandroidandroid-appkotlin
AppPress/node-connect-datadog
Apr 2013 - Nov 2015
Datadog middleware for Connect JS / Express
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
expressexpress-jsnodejsmiddlewaredatadog
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