Lucy Kates

Product designer based in Berkeley, California

Experience

LinkedIn
Sept 2020 – Present
Senior Product Designer · 2023 – Present
  • Led design of LinkedIn's profile integrations, launched June 2026 with 30 partners including Duolingo and HubSpot, letting members showcase verified work and more fully represent their skills. Created a scalable framework for highlighting various types of work on the profile.
  • Embedded Sales Navigator insights natively within the core LinkedIn experience, defining how enterprise features could live inside a consumer-grade product and saving sellers time by putting insights directly in their workflow.
  • Founding designer on LinkedIn's internal AI incubator, defining the trust framework and design language for an AI workplace assistant, which helped secure dedicated funding for the team. Brought an equity lens to the work, testing for biases such as pronoun handling.
Product Designer · Sept 2020 – 2023
  • Designed and launched Relationship Map, an org-charting tool in Sales Navigator that helps sellers visualize buyers using real-time LinkedIn data. Partnered closely with engineering to ship LinkedIn's first drag-and-drop feature, designed for ease of use and accessibility. Drove statistically significant lifts in unique-user engagement across Sales Navigator.
  • Built reusable components for the Sales Solutions design system, improving pattern consistency across the org.
Uber
May 2019 – May 2020
Contract Product Designer · Jan 2020 – May 2020
  • Improved Uber's product selection screen to make more ride options visible, after data showed only 10% of riders scrolled the full list. Explored scroll affordances, motion design, and accessibility, then aligned PM, design, and engineering on a final solution.
Product Design Intern · May 2019 – Aug 2019
  • Redesigned the cancellation experience for Uber Rewards Gold members after research showed a third of riders didn't know they'd received their benefit. Improved how the benefit was communicated across the flow and presented the work to leadership.

Education

Georgia Tech
B.S. Industrial Design · Highest Honors

Skills

  • Interaction design
  • Product strategy
  • User research
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Accessibility
  • Agentic design
  • Figma
  • Product Design
  • UI/UX
  • Visual Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Micro-Interactions
  • Prototyping with Code
  • Claude Code
  • Design Systems
  • Usability Testing