Adrienne HarrisAH

Adrienne Harris

Founding mentor

Senior UX/UI Designer @ GEICO

Rockville, Maryland 6 yrs in design

About

I’m a Senior Product Designer who believes great design starts with curiosity, empathy, and a willingness to keep learning. My career has taken me across small businesses and Fortune 500 companies, where I’ve worked on complex products while mentoring designers at every stage of their journey. I know how challenging it can be to break into the industry, navigate career growth, or tackle a tough design problem, and I love being a thought partner through those moments. My goal is to create a welcoming, judgment-free space where you can ask questions, think through challenges together, and leave every conversation feeling more confident than when you arrived.

How I can help

I help aspiring designers “break into UX” by teaching them the different avenues they can use to learn UX design principles and understand the true nature of this work. I also support early career designers develop their skills to design intuitive and inclusive experiences with confidence and expertise. My goal is to remove the cloud of imposter syndrome and help designers find their footing in what makes them unique.

Ask me about

Building a design system
Craft to strategy
Growing into leadership
Imposter syndrome
Presenting to execs
Negotiating comp
Stakeholder standoffs
Influence without authority
Layoffs
A reorg
First or only designer
Getting passed over
Returning from a break
Pivot into design

Expertise

Design Lead
Interviewing
Consumer/Social
Negotiation
Fintech
Leadership
AI workflows
Design systems
Agentic AI
AI tools
Product Designer
UX Designer
B2B SaaS
UX Researcher
Accessibility
User Interface Design
Design QA
Cross-Team Collaboration
Intro to Coding
Human-Computer Interaction