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    Kelsey Pytlik headshot

    Kelsey Pytlik (Hawke)

    School of Information
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    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    khawke@kent.edu
    Personal Website:
    http://kelseypytlik.com/about-kelsey

    Biography

    Kelsey Pytlik started teaching as an adjunct instructor for Kent State’s Knowledge Management Master’s degree program in 2015. She frequently teaches UXD 60001 User Experience Design Principles and Concepts. 

    She is a contract User Experience Designer. After completing her Masters at Kent State, Kelsey worked at a digital agency on branded sites followed by working as a member of an in-house digital team at an e-commerce retailer. Since 2016, Kelsey has been working across a variety of clients as a contract resource. 

    Kelsey is also the co-founder of Gild Collective, which offers gender diversity and inclusion programming to client companies. 

    Outside of work, Kelsey is an active participant in Team and Training endurance events to fundraise for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

    *The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of Kelsey Pytlik’s recent work. Further information can be viewed in her CV (found below), her LinkedIn profile, or her website.


    Teaching

    Academic Program
    User Experience Design

    Courses
    UXD 60001    User Experience Design Principles and Concepts
    UXD 60002    UXD in Practice
    UXD 60102     Principles of Interaction
    UXD 60112     Interaction in Practice

    Education

    M.S. in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management with a Focus in User Experience Design from Kent State University
    B.Phil in Interdisciplinary Studies and in Marketing, Communications, Interactive Media Studies from Miami University

    Documents

    PDF icon Pytlik-CV-Jan2021.pdf
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