Kyra Hawrysh

Hi, I’m Kyra.

I’m a senior UI/UX designer at Citi, where I design for global marketing and build AI tools for the team, like a Figma plugin that checks contrast on every banner so nobody has to do it by hand.

Outside Citi, I design and build products for startups. I designed Kenna AI, a generative tool now used by 500+ designers, and built Soldi’s Shopify store, including a custom checkout feature I coded myself with Claude Code.

What I care about most is adoption. A great AI tool doesn’t matter if people don’t trust it or know how to use it, so I also train teams and design with that in mind from the start.

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Experience

  1. Citi, via Tonic3

    Senior UI/UX Designer

    2025 to now

    I design marketing for Citi's card and rewards sites: banners, landing pages, emails and decks, 45+ a week, all responsive and WCAG-compliant. Bringing AI into our design-to-dev workflow tripled my output. I also build AI agents and tools that take handoff busywork off the team, and I've trained 230+ marketing employees to use them.

  2. Designtech NYC

    Senior AI Product Designer and Educator

    2023 to 2025

    I led AI training for Designtech's clients. I designed the AI curriculum, redesigned the training platform (engagement went up 25%) and built out its design system in Figma. I taught 250+ employees at 10+ enterprise companies to use Adobe Firefly, Figma AI and Copilot.

  3. Nami Studio

    Founder and Creative Director

    2023 to now

    My design studio, which I run alongside my full-time roles. For Kenna AI, a fashion AI platform where 500+ designers have generated 1M+ visuals from sketches and text prompts, I designed the product UI and the full design system. For Soldi, a luxury resale store, I built the Shopify site and use AI agents and automation to manage its 300+ products. I've also shipped apps with Claude Code that replaced paid software for clients.

  4. ADPL (formerly Tahari ASL)

    Designer

    2019 to 2024

    I co-led seasonal product development, 200+ styles a season, and led the rollout of a new product lifecycle system, training 80+ teammates on it.

Toolkit

Design
Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Framer
AI generation
Adobe Firefly, Figma Make, Midjourney, Runway, Nano Banana
AI workflow
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, v0, Lovable
Practice
AI/ML product design, AI agents & automation, design systems, WCAG accessibility, user flows, prototyping, user testing

Education

2026
GenAI for UX DesignersCoursera
2022
User Experience CertificateGoogle
2019
Visual Design CertificateGeneral Assembly
2017
BFAMarist College

Off the clock

Outside of work I practice yoga, get out into nature, make pottery, and play with my dog, Bradi.