MICHAEL KELLMAN

Product Designer

In more than 15 years of working as a designer I've learned from my failures, analyzed my successes and absorbed the wisdom of those around me. My current recipe for success is to make sure that everyone on my product team shares a clear objective, understands the constraints and feels safe bringing their own ideas to the table while challenging mine.

PORTFOLIO

Data Analysis Agent

What if AI could monitor your financials, alert you to meaningful variance and serve as a co-pilot for during analysis?

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AI Data Analysis POC

Can I "prove" an LLM can ingest Workday's schema and data so that users can ask complex questions in plain language?

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Report Authoring Improvements

Is it possible to meaningfully improve creation and maintenance in an extremely dated legacy system?

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Accessible Charting Palette

How do you create a charting palette so that users with color blindness can differentiate all the colors from each other?

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Figmacraft and Prototypery

Can we level up the entire design organization by teaching them how to leverage the best features of Figma?

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Ways of Working

How do we set our team up for success by communicating clearly instead of just relying on word of mouth?

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Experience

As a product designer I've left behind innumerable wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes in the places I’ve worked. My fingerprints are on the style guides and asset libraries, but all those things fade away over time. Here’s what I hope I’m actually remembered for.

EXPERIENCE

WORKDAY

Principal Product Designer

2017 - Present (7 years)

I help deliver great products like Workday Slides and big features like Reporting Enhancements by embedding directly with scrum teams and being a true partner with engineering and product management. This working model has become more prevalent over time in part because I am able to consistently demonstrate success and mentor others in this way of working.

TRIO HEALTH

Creative Director, UX

2013 - 2017 (4 years)

I was the first UX hire for the startup, so I worked to establish a user-centric model of building products like our Provider Portal and fostered a tight working relationship with marketing and sales. I encouraged a practice of balancing user and customer needs to drive better patient outcomes.

IHS MARKIT

Associate Creative Director

2009 - 2013 (4 years)

As a self-taught designer working for the first time on a design team, I learned a lot. By the end I was leading work for Schwab, one of our largest clients, creating innovative in-house products like Commission Manager and mentoring other designers.

TRANSLATIONS.COM

Product Manager / UX Designer

2006 - 2009 (3 years)

As a product manager for our core Translation Management System, I saw a gap between what we were doing and what users actually needed. I tried to bridge that gap by teaching myself the basics of user experience design and sharing the knowledge with my team. This is where my love of UX design really began.

Quotes

Here are some kind words that my colleagues have shared about me and the work we've done together.

QUOTES

Andrew Riechel

Vice President, Workday Financials

Michael has been a great partner in working toward defining a long-term strategy for financial reporting. He is a pleasure to work with, always being reliable, eager, and energetic. He has a strong degree of business and results-orientation which is appreciated, and he’s been very helpful in steering the group toward tangible outcomes and forward momentum.

Padma Ayyadurai

Principal Product Manager

I’m grateful for Michael's partnership and the support that he provides for our Report Writer features and accessibility program. I appreciate his passion, energy and efforts - from listening to the functional requirements, understanding the corner cases and product limitations to sharing the UX requirements and providing guidance to create the prototypes.

Alysse Schwertscharf

Senior UX Designer

Thank you so much for your EXCELLENT Figma prototype demo during Experience Summit this year! It was so helpful to reference your workshop and Figma file to build a realistic Search experience. I'm trying to ensure my prototype feels as real as possible for an expert review and it was great to see it come to life! Thank you again, Michael!

Ted Liu

Senior UX Designer

Thanks for going above and beyond working on the Gartner Magic Quadrant presentation screens. You delivered in your area and offered support in a timely and thoughtful manner while simultaneously creating and maintaining an extensive Gartner pattern library. Your leadership helped ensure that the designs stayed consisted across teams.

Antoinette Reade

Senior Product Manager

Thank you for your continued exploration and innovation to help solve the problem of data source findability. You have excelled at driving this forward through collaboration both internally and with other Workday teams and through learning new skills which you have educated the wider team with.

Chiwon Lee

UX Designer

You have a keen eye for detail and give helpful, specific, and actionable advice. I’m often surprised how quickly you grasp the context and provide ideas on design directions to explore. You practice active listening, and are always open to discussion on what could work best for the use case we are solving for.