Erin Kay

UX Designer & Researcher · Memphis, TN

I bring clarity to complex systems and the people who depend on them.

I'm a UX designer and researcher with a background in anthropology. I study how people actually work, then design the tools that fit it: from interviews and process maps to tested Figma prototypes.

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Selected work

Featured case study · Enterprise workflow tool

Replacing a 15-year-old legacy tool for a 20+ person remarketing team

Six months of discovery research and UX for a tool people rely on every day, while the old system had to keep running.

Discovery research Workflow mapping Figma prototypes Usability testing
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Case study · Internal enterprise app

Bringing billing into the system where the work already happens

A new module that moves a recovery team's billing out of two external tools and into the application they already use.

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Case study · UX research

What helps graduate students succeed?

A mixed-methods study of master's students during the shift to virtual learning, from IRB and interviews to a board readout. It surfaced "time capital."

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How I work

Anthropology taught me to study how people really work, not how a process diagram says they do.

01

Understand

Interviews with users and subject-matter experts, and watching how work actually gets done.

02

Map

Current-state process maps that show where work breaks down.

03

Design & test

User flows, wireframes and Figma prototypes, tested in moderated and unmoderated sessions.

04

Hand off

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner, I turn research into user stories and acceptance criteria engineers can build.

Erin Kay

Let's talk

I'm looking for UX research and design roles on complex, workflow-heavy tools.

memphiserin@gmail.com

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