Kurt Winkler

About Kurt Winkler

I am a UX Leader with 15+ years experience creating digital products in healthcare, payments, learning, enterprise apps, and more — both inside software product companies and as a consultant. I thrive creating vision for new products leveraging E2E research, strategy, and design capabilities. I have experience managing and mentoring other designers as head of a UX group. I also have extensive experience as a hands-on lead designer, across many industries and across device platforms. My career has spanned creating new products for startups, bringing new products and features to market for publicly-traded companies, and consulting Fortune 100 companies on their digital strategy. Currently, I work as a Design Director / Expert for a top consulting company.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Digital Product Designer

   Alcon

   Feb 2025 — Present

   Lead design on complex surgical planning and clinical operations application and manage design team• Lead creation of product design system that will extend to company ecosystem

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Master of Architecture, Architecture

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, Architecture

• Bentley University

  Master of Science, Human Factors in Information Design

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• Usability Engineering
• Mobile Devices
• Information Architecture
• User Interface
• Axure
• User-Centered Design
• Keynote
• Usability Testing
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• User Experience
• Agile Methodologies
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Mobile Application Design
• Paper Prototyping
• User Interface Design
• Information Design
• Usability
• Responsive Web Design
• Web Development
• Visual Design
• User Experience Design
• Mockups
• User Research
• Mobile Design
• Graphic Design
• Wireframes
• Persona
• Experience Design
• Contextual Inquiry
• Wire Framing
• Axure Rp