Simply Katerina Rose

I make complexity navigable.

For systems, for teams, and for the people working inside them.

Part professional portfolio, part creative space, part ongoing experiment in building an intentional life out loud.

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Katerina Rose, smiling, with red and blonde hair, gold jewelry, and a floral tattoo

Experience includes

Selected work

Concept diagram: three connected product screens with the middle one highlighted, representing core workflows through a platform
UX Design

B2B SaaS platform experience

Designed core workflows for a workplace technology platform, bridging high-level product strategy with day-to-day design execution.

Product design
Concept diagram from the personal SDLC case study: six stages on a line with two states falling away below it
Operating Systems

An operating system for a team of one

Six stages, composable quality gates, and defined rules for where a person decides and where an AI agent is allowed to. Built for my own studio, then used to ship everything here.

Operating model design
Concept diagram from the Daily Brief case study: a looming appointment countdown versus the day shown as equal points on a timeline
Product Design & Build

Daily brief, built for one

A guilt-free morning tool with no streaks or countdowns. Specced on a Friday, shipped by Saturday, then reshaped by a month of daily use. Designed and built end to end.

Design & build
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How I work

I don't just use AI. I design the system it works inside.

Every stage of my own delivery lifecycle names who leads it. The ideas are mine and the decision to ship is mine. The systematic checking in the middle is exactly what a machine should do and a tired human skips.

Who leads each stage of my delivery lifecycle A three-row chart. The ideas at Captured and the decision to publish at Shipped are mine alone. Shaped, Drafting and Refining are shared with Claude in conversation. Reviewing is led by a bounded autonomous agent. The filled cells trace a path that starts high, dips to the agent row in the middle, and returns. Captured Shaped Drafting Reviewing Refining Shipped Mine Shared The agent's
Who leads each stage of my delivery lifecycle A three-row chart. The ideas at Captured and the decision to publish at Shipped are mine alone. Shaped, Drafting and Refining are shared with Claude in conversation. Reviewing is led by a bounded autonomous agent. The filled cells trace a path that starts high, dips to the agent row in the middle, and returns. Mine Shared Agent Captured Shaped Drafting Reviewing Refining Shipped
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Product Operations Consulting

I build product operations for teams, on a project basis.

Alongside my portfolio work, I partner with product teams to build the operational infrastructure that helps them plan, ship, and scale. Engagements run from a short diagnostic to ongoing fractional support.

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Operations Diagnostic2 to 3 weeks
System BuildProject-based
Fractional Product OpsMonthly

From the blog

Writing about what it actually looks like to navigate a non-linear career, design systems for real life, and show up as a whole person while doing it.

Systems and Design pillar
Systems & Design

Operational thinking meets everyday design.
Career and Identity pillar
Career & Identity

Non-linear paths and professional reinvention.
Life in Full pillar
Life in Full

Service dogs, adaptive curling, and real logistics.
Creative Practice pillar
Creative Practice

Templates, stationery, and low-stakes making.
Career & Identity

The same problem, thirteen years running

On paper, thirteen years of development, UX, Design Ops, and Product Ops can look like a series of career changes. Looking at the work itself, it really isn't.
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My name is Katerina.

I started as a web developer, learning how systems are built from the inside out. Then I spent a decade as a UX designer, learning how people move through them: where they get lost, where they find flow. Eventually I turned that same lens inward, from designing for users to designing for the teams doing the building.

Outside of work, I've been navigating a life that required its own kind of operational thinking. I was a service dog handler. I'm an adaptive athlete competing in curling. I've built a creative community online, learned the hard way what burnout costs, and rebuilt something more sustainable in its place.

Not because I have everything figured out, but because good structure makes navigating complexity a little less exhausting.

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