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

From building things to building how things get built.

Years of product design led me toward the systems surrounding the product: design systems, operating models, workflows, decision structures, and now the environments where people and AI work together.

Career progression timeline: Web Development (how things are built), to UX Design (how people use them), to Design Ops (how design work gets done), to Product Ops (how product teams deliver).

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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 meetseveryday design.
Career and Identity pillar
Career & Identity

Non-linear paths andprofessional reinvention.
Life in Full pillar
Life in Full

Service dogs, adaptive sport,and real-life logistics.
Creative Practice pillar
Creative Practice

Templates, stationery, andlow-stakes making.
Career & Identity

When the UX problem isn't the interface

Some of the hardest UX problems show up in interfaces but live somewhere deeper, in workflows, ownership boundaries, and structure nobody thought to name.
Life in Full

I forgot how nice it is to be unreachable

A weekend at the lake, a break from the constant inputs, and a reminder that not everything asking for my attention needs to get it.
Systems & Design

The thing about systems that almost work

A notebook that almost fits. A sport that almost fits. An organization where teams almost line up. The interesting work is in the gap, not on either side.
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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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