KELSEY WIRTZFELD
Bringing curiosity, diligence, and phenomenal attention to detail.
Award-winning UX Designer with decades of experience advancing health & wellbeing through environmental, humanitarian, and higher-ed systems and initiatives.
Work Highlights
Created an entirely new site to provide best-in-class support resources for parents, teachers, and coaches to address mental health issues, bullying, and bias.
Saving birds with a site redesign: Illuminating a nonprofit's exceptional work by making its site more intuitive, engaging, accessible, and effective.
Enacted a full accessibility review and updates to make a quirky culture site more inclusive, accessible, and original.
Helped the world better understand the complicated and multidisciplinary approach of making mineral exploration a process where ethics come first.
My Range
My Approach
My Values
Ceaseless Curiosity
There will be questions.
Work Ethic
Cheerful and passionate.
Inclusivity & Accessibility
Learn. Apply. Repeat.
Adaptability
Change being the only constant.
Empathy
Seeking to understand.
Always Learning
Always.
What Others Are Saying
Vice President of Strategy
Owen Jones & Partners
“An advocate for accessible design and audience-centered solutions.”
You can always count on Kelsey to dig deep on any topic, have a lot of questions, think broadly, and propose solutions that center audience needs. While at Owen, she worked on several highly custom digital experiences for Fortune 100 clients that balanced complex data with unique task flows to ensure accurate processes. Kelsey lives for the details, and tracks them all with precision across the lifecycle of each project to ensure she's delivering the very best work.
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Wyatt Lindsey
Senior Software Engineer
TrainerRoad
“Incredibly versatile, with the right combination of creativity, technical ability, and warm personality.”
Kelsey is someone you can count on to get things done on time. I witnessed this repeatedly as she worked in several roles and offices over the years. She is a talented problem solver, a solid, competent technologist and someone you just like to be around. I always appreciated her proactive, carefully planned approach. I think of her ultimately as a creative talent, who also has the technical acumen and organization ability to push any size project across the finish line.
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Dana Lowe-Rogstad
Finance Manager
Owen Jones & Partners
“Kelsey's dedication was evident in every interaction, ensuring the database exceeded both my needs and our client's expectations.”
The database Kelsey developed has become an indispensable tool for me. It is not only user-friendly and comprehensive, it also reflects Kelsey's creative touch, incorporating elements of humor that make it a pleasure to use. Her expertise in user experience is exceptional, and I wholeheartedly endorse her for any project requiring a skilled and insightful professional.
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Mike Brody
Vice President for Student Life
Reed College
“Constantly exceeded all reasonable expectations.”
How can one brain generate this much creativity while being this efficient and organized? In the rare instance when this confluence does occur, there’s just no way the person connected to that brain is also endlessly patient, genuinely kind, deeply ethical, and a joy to be around; unless that person is Kelsey Wirtzfeld.
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