Woody Kim

Product Designer · UX Strategist · Boston & NYC

I design AI-native
products for complex,
regulated systems.

Since leaving the DoD, I've studied how intelligent systems work — from non-linear regression at MIT to machine learning in Tokyo — and now build AI-native products and agents in New York City.

Selected Work

Newsroom Discovery

Independent / Self-directed

Rebuilt a decade-old open-source research technique into a working, self-hosted product for investigative journalists — one that finds documents about a topic using AI similarity search, including the ones a keyword search would completely miss.

AI ToolingData DiscoveryJournalism

Autonomous Health Tracker Agent

Independent / Self-directed

Consolidated a fragmented health-tracking routine — smart scale, wearable, and progress photos — into one silent system. No new habits, no new apps to check: the tools I already used just started talking to each other.

AI ToolingPersonal HealthAutomation

AI Writing Tools at Scale

Kessel Run × MIT AI Accelerator

Drove 70% adoption of a net-new enterprise AI product. Partnered with the MIT AI Accelerator to design human-in-the-loop writing workflows now used across 16+ product teams.

AI/ML UXEnterpriseDefense

Zero-to-Stable Field Deployment

Dept. of Defense · JB Hickam, HI

Forward-deployed to operators to stabilize mission-critical software. Redesigned case management workflows that cut per-case reporting overhead by 90+ minutes — then led policy revisions to standardize the change.

Mission-CriticalGov SoftwareField UX

Series A Product & Compliance UX

a.Team — multiple startups

Led end-to-end product design across multiple pre-Series A teams. Delivered compliance-adjacent tooling and investor-facing materials that contributed to successful fundraising outcomes.

FintechCompliance UXStartup

Disciplines

Compliance UX

Making regulatory workflows navigable. Audit trails, policy management, and enforcement tooling that practitioners actually want to use.

AI Tooling

Interfaces and workflows for AI-assisted products — prompt UX, agentic dashboards, eval interfaces, and human-in-the-loop patterns.

Data Visualization

Interactive dashboards and charts that turn complex datasets into clear decisions — for government, finance, and operations.

Gov Software

Federal and civic digital products built to accessibility standards, modern design systems, and procurement realities.

Hackathons

Rapid-prototyping discipline: I run and compete in hackathons — scoping ruthlessly and shipping polished, functional products in 24–48 hours.