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Buley’s career has time and again proven two things (our takeaways for this article): caring about users isn’t enough, you have to do the work to prove their worth and that design shouldn’t be sequestered away from other departments.

Kat Holmes has had a star-studded career as a UX designer. She has had influence on some of the biggest names in tech: she spent seven years at Microsoft developing radical new design practices before becoming Director of UX Design at Google. Today she is the Senior Vice President of Product Design and UX at Salesforce. In each of these positions, she has been a champion of the importance of user experience, namely user experience that is inclusive.

Kare gave “the Macintosh a smile” that welcomed a wider demographic of users. Thanks to her pixel paintbrushes and scissors, Mac’s desktop proved to be a tool that writers, artists, and just about anyone could use.