Kelly is an American product designer based in the Netherlands since 2018.
At
WeTransfer in Amsterdam, she leads a globally distributed team of designers and researchers responsible for the core product experience on web, iOS, and Android. Before joining WeTransfer nearly five years ago, Kelly was the only designer at
Smartify, an award-winning arts and culture startup that created the world's most downloaded museum app.
Kelly spent the formative years of her design career in the United States. She helped design the audio and video call experience for 1B+ users on
Messenger. She also worked at
Tripadvisor, where she started as a summer intern and later designed the travel site's native mobile and Apple TV apps.
Kelly's background is in media studies and journalism. She studied graphic design at Syracuse University's
Newhouse School, one of the top mass communications programs in the U.S.
In life off screen Kelly spends most of her time with her toddler, partner, and sausage dog in a village near Amsterdam. She enjoys taking road trips to Italy, hiking and downhill skiing, watching Formula 1, and studying Dutch and Italian.