marissaklymkiw
I think in systems: the models, patterns, and governance that decide what every screen downstream can and can’t do.
Right now that means design systems and AI-native workflows at UCLA: the scaffolding product teams build on, and the interaction patterns that keep a human in charge of the model. Complex, high-stakes, exactly the kind of problem I’m built for.
I work every layer of the stack: user research, problem space, solution space, conceptual model, structure, aesthetic. The structure has to be right. So does the screen that sits on top of it.
Selected work
Designing
the structure
under the screen
A decade of it building design systems; the last two bringing AI into how product teams actually work. I design the patterns other teams depend on, with no authority over them, which is the whole discipline.
- AI Design Systems
- Interaction Design
- Product Enablement
- Agentic AI
- AI Strategy
- AI-assisted development
- Human-in-the-Loop
- Governance
- Research → Architecture
- Accessibility