I’m Koly, a UX Designer + Researcher with a knack for storytelling.
Nice to meet you! I am a passionate Senior User Experience Designer currently at Backcountry.com. I love UX because it puts you at the crossroads of empathy and problem solving. I love digging in to find core user needs to crafting delightful design solutions.
At Backcountry I’ve worked on projects that transform the customer experience and how we manage and maintain the backend systems to support them. I’m passionate about creating delightful, accessible, and informative experiences across the Backcountry family of sites so our users can get back to getting after it in the outdoors. Currently, I lead our UX design team, contribute to objectives with the product team, manage and maintain our design system, lead research operations, and mentor our UX designers.
Before transitioning to UX, I graduated with a bachelor of science in Journalism, emphasis in visual communication. I took a semester abroad outside of Nairobi, Kenya to study digital anthropology.
In my downtime you can catch me hiking with my dog, tending to my garden, reading a book, skiing and snowboarding in the winter, biking in the summer, and romping through the desert between seasons.