I'm Kate Huezo — founding designer, agentic AI UX specialist, and the person startups call when they need someone who can hold the vision and ship the pixels.

I was born in Kyiv, raised between cultures, and eventually landed in the Bay Area — where I discovered that the best design problems are the ones nobody has solved yet. I have an MA in design research with a focus on how color shapes human behavior, which sounds academic until you realize it means I think about why things feel trustworthy before I think about how they look.

I've been the first designer at two startups that were later acquired — IntelleXt (acquired by Microsoft) and Blume Global (acquired by WiseTech Global), where I built and led a team of three. I know what it feels like to make design decisions before there's a system, a process, or a second opinion. I like it that way.

I also win hackathons. I've designed agentic AI interfaces, built a working historical visualization app, and shipped a Ukrainian fantasy dating sim in two days that's now demoing at GDC. I document everything — the weird experiments, the AI tool comparisons, the half-baked ideas that turn into real products — on my blog.

My design philosophy is simple: autonomous AI is not primarily a UX problem about buttons or dashboards — it's a trust problem. The autonomy runs in the background. The human stays in control. Everything I build tries to honor that.

When I'm not in Figma, I'm mentoring designers at Google-sponsored Portfolio Night SF, painting (exhibited in SF, Moscow, and Kuala Lumpur), or testing the latest AI tools so you don't have to.