Hey! I’m glad you found your way to this little corner of the world. A bit about me is that I have a ton of hobbies, from bird watching (thanks to Covid) to collecting vintage and antique… ‘things’ (gestures broadly towards everything), I’m an enormous fan of live music and the performing arts, someone who grew up surrounded by music and made my way to Indiana University to study percussion and music education. While at IU, I marched in the Hundred (snare), also I’m a super proud Hoosier, hello 2026 National Football Champions! I received my Bachelor of Science in Informatics in 2006 and Masters of Science in Human-Computer Interaction Design in 2008, both from Indiana University. I love to garden, decorate my house, spend time with my husband and our two dogs, Wilco and Buckley, and just live the best life in Bloomington, Indiana.

How I work

Steady, reflective growth.

As a Designer, I care about designing experiences that are clear, intuitive, and grounded in real human behavior and expectations. My approach pairs strategic vision with continuous reflection and improvement, ensuring every research and design effort gets sharper over time. This is especially true in analytics and data-rich environments, where the gap between a useful experience and an overwhelming one is entirely a design problem. Across my career, I’ve helped teams and products grow, align, and level up, and I hold myself to a simple standard:

Leave every space, every product, every system, and every team better than I found it.

As a manager, I love coaching designers and supporting them as they level up their craft, confidence, and impact. I work to build a team culture rooted in trust, collaboration, and continuous discovery. My goal is to help people do the best work of their careers and to keep growing, improving, and raising the bar together.

As a colleague on a strong cross-functional team, I do my best work. Collaborating with Designers, PMs, Engineers, and stakeholders, I champion consistency and principled decision-making, backed by research and real user needs. My north stars are usability, accessibility, and user value.

As a teacher, I’m inspired every day by my students. I bring the same design mindset into the classroom that I bring into product work; crafting experiences that spark curiosity, build confidence, and help students understand how thoughtful interaction design and product management can make a real, positive impact. Teaching is where I see the power of thoughtful product design most clearly.

Recommendations

Kayce’s passion and commitment to her job are unparalleled. She genuinely wants what’s best for the team and the product and is always fighting to do what’s right for the team and our customers. She takes on an amazing amount of work and responsibility and always meets deadlines and the needs of the team. I couldn’t do my job without Kayce.

Anna Robertson, Senior Product Designer, CrowdStrike

As a Product Designer who knew nothing about Product Management, I’m fortunate for having taken Kayce’s Product Management class at IU Bloomington. Not only did I learn about what it meant to be a good PM, but I also developed a Product thinking mindset. Her product and teaching skills are complemented by a deep sense of empathy towards her students. She took the time to help me identify my strengths and weaknesses and managed to positively influence my career trajectory just over the course of a semester. Eventually, I was able to apply her feedback and land my first Product Management Internship! Very few professors have had such a profound impact on me and I can’t think of anyone I’d recommend more highly.

Rohan Kamath, Product Manager, Burro

I worked with Kayce for several years at Formstack and saw her build and lead the product design function. Formstack’s products are known for usability through no-code configuration, and Kayce and her team are a huge reason for that. Always a pleasure to work with, always solving for the user and the customer – Kayce would be a huge addition to any team looking to establish, grow, revamp or scale their product design function. I highly recommend Kayce.

Zak Pines, Vice President of Partnerships, Formstack