UX product design for the platforms your team runs on.
And websites that grow your small business.
2009 – 2012
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iF Design Award — Interactive Design (2010)
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Red Dot Award — Communication Design (2011)
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BAFTA — Game Design (2010)
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GDC — Best Technology (2009)
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Webby Award — Best User Interface (2012)
2013 – 2017
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W3 Award — Silver, Automotive Website Design (2014)
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Davey Award — Silver, UX Design (2015)
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dotCOMM Award — Platinum, Digital Marketing (2016)
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Webby Award — Best Automotive Website (2017)
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Acquia Engage Award — Website Redesign (2016)
Kayenta is a UX product design studio. We design the large internal systems and enterprise platforms that operations, support, and engineering teams depend on every day — admin consoles, command centers, data tooling, and the dense, workflow-heavy software most users never see. The work is rarely flashy, but it is where measurable productivity, accuracy, and trust are won or lost.
Alongside that practice, we build clean, conversion-focused websites for small businesses — local shops, service providers, and independent operators who need a credible online presence without the overhead of a full agency engagement. Two audiences, one discipline: clarity over decoration, and design decisions grounded in how real people actually do their work.
UX for Internal Systems & Platforms
Internal tooling is where most of a company's work actually happens, and it is also where design is most often neglected. We specialize in the operational software that sits behind the scenes: admin portals, command centers, fulfillment dashboards, analytics consoles, configuration tools, and the long-tail workflows that power day-to-day operations.
We work in the messy middle — translating opaque domain logic, legacy data models, and entrenched workflows into interfaces that operators can actually move through quickly. The goal is fewer clicks, fewer errors, and faster onboarding for the teams who run the business.
Product Design & Discovery
End-to-end product design for B2B and enterprise software — from early discovery through shipped iteration. We partner with product managers, engineers, and the operators who use the product to frame the problem before we design a pixel.
Engagements typically include stakeholder and user interviews, workflow mapping, information architecture, interaction design, and detailed specs that engineering can build from without ambiguity. We stay involved through implementation, because the best research and prototypes can still die in the handoff.
Design Systems
Large platforms accumulate inconsistency the same way they accumulate features — quietly, until it becomes expensive. We build and maintain the component libraries, tokens, and patterns that keep a sprawling product feeling like one product.
Our work covers Figma architecture, component APIs that map cleanly to code, accessibility standards, documentation that designers and engineers actually read, and the governance model that keeps the system from drifting six months after launch.
Small Business Websites
A focused practice for small businesses — local services, independent shops, studios, and solo operators — who need a professional, mobile-first website that converts visitors into customers without the cost or complexity of a full agency.
Each site is built around the handful of things that actually matter for a small business: a clear value proposition, easy contact, simple booking or inquiry flows, fast load times, and a structure that ranks. We handle copy direction, photography guidance, accessibility, and the launch — and we hand you something you can maintain on your own.
How we work
A small, senior practice focused on the UX of internal systems and enterprise platforms — and the websites that help small businesses get found and chosen.
From research through rollout, we make the software your teams use every day faster, clearer, and easier to trust.
Client Feedback
I'm a Product Design leader with 15+ years of experience focused on the kind of UX work that rarely shows up in case-study galleries — the large internal systems and enterprise platforms that companies actually run on. Admin tools, command centers, operational dashboards, configuration software, and dense, workflow-heavy interfaces for the operators, analysts, and engineers who use them eight hours a day. It is unglamorous, deeply rewarding work, and where good design has outsized leverage.
I partner closely with engineering, product, and the operators themselves — running research, mapping workflows, building design systems, and turning complex domain logic into interfaces that move fast and don't get in the way. Alongside the enterprise practice, I also build clean, conversion-focused websites for small businesses who need a credible online presence without the cost or overhead of a traditional agency. Same discipline, different scale.