Kapin Weatherly,
Staff UX/UI Designer

Experience

Staff UX/UI Designer for E-Commerce amfam.com | Irvine, CA
April 2022 – Current

American Family Insurance, also abbreviated as AmFam, is an American private mutual company that focuses on property, casualty, and auto insurance, and also offers commercial insurance, life, health, and homeowners coverage.

Responsibilities:

As the Staff UX/UI Designer in the E-Commerce team, I successfully develop J.D Power #1 ranking digital shopping experience, innovative design solutions and world-class product experiences that transform how consumers shop for insurance.

Designed scalable, component-based interfaces aligned with Angular/React and supported by HTML/CSS

Created wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes using Figma

Collaborated with engineering via Storybook to build and validate reusable UI components

Applied AI-driven design approaches to enhance user workflows and personalization

Ensured accessibility compliance with Section 508 and WCAG

Partnered with UX research to conduct usability testing and drive data-informed design decisions

Led cross-functional alignment and contributed to UX content strategy and information architecture

Used tools and technologies: Figma, Figma Make, Figjam, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Zeplin, Axure, Wireframing, Prototyping, Interaction design, Angular, React (component-based frameworks), HTML/CSS (responsive and accessible design), Storybook (component documentation and validation), AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and design AI tools for ideation and workflow acceleration), Accessibility standards: Section 508, WCAG, Usability Testing (user interviews, moderated/unmoderated testing, analytics-driven insights).

Senior User Experience Designer, NTT Data | Mountain View, CA
November 2018 – Current

NTT Data Services is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services.

Responsibilities:

Partnered with developers, product managers and business analyst to create experiences connecting people to technologies that transform the way we all work.

Lead designer for big clients such as ServiceNow, Sun Life and Willis Towers Watson.

Managed multi-disciplinary, delivering value in the form of design solutions.

Led design to understand and empathize with people to help my cross-functional team solve customer and business problems.

Developed dashboard designs from operational to analytical that presented all information, enterprise software and large transactional software experience, showed trends and risky areas, updated users on what happened with data visualization tools from Power BI to Sisense.

Worked with the delivery coaches, product managers, product owners, developers in agile environment.

Used tools and technologies: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, Figma, Miro, Adobe CC, HTML/CSS, Axure.

User Experience Designer, United Health Group | Mountain View, CA
November 2012 – November 2018

United Healthcare is a Group company which provides network-based health and well-being benefits and services for employers and consumers nationwide.

Responsibilities:

Instrumental to business owners, business analysts and developers to design the user interaction of new site capabilities based on user research and business requirements.

Supported mobile and web based portals that help provide members, employers, brokers and healthcare providers with tools to manage healthcare benefits.

Used tools and technologies: Sketch, Axure, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe CC, HTML/CSS.

Education

Bachelors of Fine Arts - Graphic Design. Summa Cum Laude

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Awards

Winner of the 2024 J.D. Power Shopping Study Awards for American Family Insurance

American Family Insurance ranks 2nd in the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Insurance Digital Experience Study

Winner of the 2023 J.D. Power Shopping Study Awards for American Family Insurance

American Family Insurance ranks 1st in the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Insurance Digital Experience Study

Winner of NNGroup Intranet Design Award 2023

My ServiceNow Portal, winning intranet from technology companies