You build great teams around talent but you build great companies around character.

Kat is a high-impact leader who moves effortlessly from strategy to implementation. She combines a product designer's sense of how aesthetics should serve function with a product owner's analytical rigor. She brings order to the chaos that characterizes all early project development when one must convert ideas into a plan of action.

A common thread in all Kat's endeavors is iterative research—she tests hypotheses with her suspected audiences, learns their needs, trims away anything not needed for the initial personae and then retests. But none of this compares to Kat's character and strength. She meets even the most enormous challenges with creativity and optimism. She sets an example not just for her teammates but for the people, like me, who have known her over the years. You build great teams around talent but you build great companies around character.

—Antony Falco
Chief Operating Officer at Hydrolix

Kat has made me a better designer, not just through her mentorship but by leading through example.

Kat is the most well-rounded designer I've ever had the pleasure of working with. She's a leader, mentor, and individual contributor who consistently elevates the work of those around her.

What truly sets her apart is her ability to think from first principles. She's always asking "the why behind the why," breaking down complex problems to their core truths and inspiring those around her to do the same. This mindset has fundamentally changed the way I approach design, helping me think more critically and craft more thoughtful, impactful solutions.

Kat also excels at fostering collaboration. Through workshops, design critique, and brainstorming sessions, she creates safe and open spaces where diverse perspectives come together to produce the team's best work. She ensures every voice is heard.

And then there's her craft. From the moment I saw her portfolio presentation and subsequently learned she built it in Apple's Freeform app, I was floored. It was a reminder that great design isn't about the tools but about the talent behind them. Her strong partnerships with engineering allow her to balance experimentation with pragmatism, transforming bold ideas into feasible, polished solutions. Her 0-1 work at Matterport is a testament to her ability to push boundaries while delivering meaningful impact in both interaction and interface design.

Kat has made me a better designer, not just through her mentorship but by leading through example. Her thoughtful approach to problem-solving, collaboration, and execution has left a lasting impression on me and everyone fortunate enough to work with her.

—Dawit Elias
Design at Anduril Industries

She acts as an incredible "glue" for any org.

I sincerely hope I get to partner with Kat again in the future. Kat is such an incredible human and such a great leader for any team. She is so versatile, collaborative, intuitive, strategic, and thoughtful.

I've worked with Kat in several areas from employee engagement and company communications to investor relations and strategic storytelling to overall design systems and UX. She approached each project in the same holistic way and ensured the right people were involved to get to the best solution. She is detail oriented, solutions-focused, passionate, and always comes to the table with a positive attitude.

She is truly the most strategic and systems-focused designer I've ever worked with. Not only is she a very talented and creative designer, but the way she weaves in design thinking, design research, and her ability to bring teams together to solve a problem, she acts as an incredible "glue" for any org.

—Lisa Hovey
Chief of Staff & Head of Brand Strategy at Vacasa

Great design is about serving people where they are.

Maciej (CTO) and I had the pleasure of working with Kat as Head of Design. We both clicked right away from during the interviews, and realized she was not just an amazing, all-round talented designer, but also a strong and wonderful human being to spend time with, often chatting away for hours despite our time zone differences.

What impressed me most was Kat's holistic approach to design. She didn't just do interfaces or product design, but also knew exactly what we needed when our brand was due a refresh. Kat understood people, and wasn't afraid to tackle unconventional design challenges, like creating a CLI experience that reflected our brand. She dove in headfirst, proving that great design is about serving people where they are.

Kat was also instrumental in establishing the company brand identity, creating something distinctive that helped our seed-stage company stand out and punch well above its weight. The branding work she led generated genuinely positive feedback at industry conferences—no small feat in a crowded B2B space where most companies blend together in a black, white and purple lookalike competition.

The most remarkable feat was that she partnered with our CTO to ship a beautiful marketing site in just two days during an onsite—a testament to both her ability to work at startup speed and her exceptional collaboration skills. There's so much more to say: she's an empathetic listener who truly takes the time to understand stakeholder needs, highly organized in her approach (a blessing for our chaotic 0→1 state), and she knew exactly what she wanted to achieve and was able to get it done effectively.

We'd love to work with Kat again, and any team would be fortunate to have her blend of strategic design thinking, execution excellence, and collaborative leadership.

—Andreea Năstase
Head of Product at GitStart

Kat makes the whole team better.

Some people make projects better—Kat makes the whole team better.

Kat Miller is a great designer and an even better teammate. She's one of the most organized and thoughtful designers I've ever worked with. Her Figma documents are the easiest I've ever navigated which makes it easy to translate her designs and prototypes into products. She does a great job incorporating feedback from user testing back into her designs. She's also fantastic at communicating ideas through her slide decks—a skill I genuinely wish I had.

Kat's dedication to her craft makes you want to improve your own work, and that's the kind of person that makes teams better.

—Brian Richardson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Matterport

Kat played a pivotal role in shaping the product experience, translating complex technical concepts into intuitive, elegant design solutions.

I had the good fortune of working with Kat Miller on Matterport's first generative AI project, which removes all the furnishings from a 3D model and replaces them with realistic virtual staging. Kat played a pivotal role in shaping the product experience, translating complex technical concepts into intuitive, elegant design solutions.

I was particularly impressed by Kat's ability to balance big-picture vision with the details that make a product desirable. She not only collaborated effortlessly across Product and Engineering teams, but also excelled at telling the story of our work in a way that resonated with senior leadership. Her compelling vision for the product experience was crucial in bringing alignment at the conceptual stage of this important 0-1 project.

—Christian Watson
Global E-Commerce Product Management Director at Matterport

Kat is well-qualified to lead a design practice and be a trusted advisor to senior leaders. She's a joy to work with!

Kat's visual design prowess and passion for implementing design as a practice really up-leveled the couple of projects that we worked on together. However, what stuck out to me most is her ability to listen, ask the right questions, and build a case for better design decisions with her stakeholders. In all of my interactions with Kat, I left those conversations feeling like the work product or process was significantly improved. Kat is well-qualified to lead a design practice and be a trusted advisor to senior leaders. She's a joy to work with!

—Eric Chen
Senior Director at Jemini

Kat is an amazing designer. She understands that good design is a cycle of constant refinement based on real testing.

Kat is an amazing designer. I've worked with her for a year on new product development for Matterport, and it has been one of the best developer/designer collaborations I've had the pleasure of working on. Her designs are very user-centered, both in her initial thinking and in the follow-up user feedback interviews. She understands that good design is a cycle of constant refinement based on real testing.

She is very open to ideas and critique from people on her team, but is also willing to fight for what she considers to be the best experience for the user. From the perspective of a developer tasked with implementing her work, she is always organized and always accommodating. I recommend her incredibly highly.

—Michael Ford
Senior Software Engineer at Matterport

Kat is a brilliant designer. She is incredibly skilled at synthesizing information and transforming ambiguity into a clear and structured story.

Kat is a brilliant designer. She is smart, collaborative, articulate, and kind. I have had the pleasure of working with Kat over the last 3 years on a variety of projects and she repeatedly exceeds expectations. She is incredibly skilled at synthesizing information and transforming ambiguity into a clear and structured story. Kat is brimming with creativity and I am excited to see what incredible things she will do in the future!

—Anne Hinkle
Chief Financial Officer at 4G Clinical

Kat articulates a clear design vision while creating an environment that encourages collaboration.

Kat Miller is a great designer, art director, and mentor. I've worked with her for several years in both an agency setting and as a freelancer. I've had the pleasure of working with her on several freelance projects, our most recent being building the branding and website designs for Foxbox.

One of Kat's many strengths is being able to articulate a clear design vision while seamlessly working with individual contributors to bring that vision to life. On any large design project, it's important to have a design leader who understands and communicates the needs and priorities of a project while also creating an environment that encourages collaboration and feedback. Kat is that person and I think any organization can be confident in her abilities as a design director and manager.

—Becca Charlier-Matthews
Designer at Citizens