Your products, easy to design with, specify, and order.
I'm Kari, a dealer designer turned UX consultant. I help manufacturers untangle their catalog data, pick the right tech partners, and show up ready in the tools designers actually use.
- In CET since 2008
- Configura service partner
- Data Collective facilitator
- Former dealer designer
- Certified UX designer
I've sat in every seat at the table.
Most problems in our industry live in the gaps between the people who make furniture, the people who specify it, and the software in between. I translate across all three.
The designer's seat
I've specified product under deadline. I know what makes a designer reach for your line, and what makes them skip it.
The manufacturer's seat
I work alongside manufacturers who need to market, ideate, and get product into the market faster with less rework.
The technology seat
CET, catalog data, configurators, and the partners who build them. I speak the language so you don't have to.
A trusted guide for your product tech.
Fractional, hands-on, and honest. I'll tell you what's working, what isn't, and what to do first.
Book a 1:1 call →Catalog data strategy
Get one source of truth for your product data across ERP, CPQ, and design tools, with a roadmap leadership can understand.
Tech partner selection
RFPs, side-by-side scoring, and vendor interviews, backed by years of working with the development partners firsthand.
Design systems & tool readiness
Design systems, audits, and guidance for CET and other spec platforms, ensuring consistency and usability so your product shows up correctly where designers work.
Fractional partner liaison
Your 1:1 fractional liaison to your development team, helping you navigate your technology ecosystem and keeping every partner moving in the same direction.
Talk it through
A 1:1 conversation about where you are and what's getting in the way.
Get a clear map
A plain-language plan: what to fix first, who should do it, and what it'll take.
Work side by side
I stay in it with you, keeping partners accountable and leadership in the loop.
Techbox Collective
Community and collaboration, built for our industry.
Techbox Collective is a community enhancing the experience for the commercial interiors e-tool box. It's for our industry only, so every conversation starts with shared context.
- 1Tech talks specific to commercial interiors
- 2Collaboration across manufacturers, dealers, and tech partners
- 3Shared problems, solved together
I facilitate the Data Collective, an industry group of manufacturers, dealers, and technology providers working toward open data standards for commercial interiors. It lives under Techbox Collective.
The ideation tool nobody was building.
As a dealer designer, I watched manufacturers struggle to ideate and market their products together. So I built Dot: a Miro plug-in that puts real products and materials right on the board, ready to compare and share.
Grown from practice, not just a certificate.
UX&Kari started when I earned my UX certification. Since then it's grown into real, hands-on work with manufacturers, dealers, and the tech partners who serve them. The & is the point: UX thinking, plus someone who has done the job.
Interior designer
B.S. in Interior Design. Space, people, and product first.
Dealer designer
Solving for people, place, process, and technology on every project. In CET since 2008.
UX designer
Certified in UX. Design thinking adds the method: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test.
Consultant & builder
I still solve for people, place, process, and technology. Now the place is the tools designers work in, and the people are the manufacturers, dealers, and partners behind them. That's 1:1 consulting, Techbox Collective, the Data Collective, and Dot.
Let's talk about what's in your way.
A 1:1 call is the easiest place to start. Bring the messy version and we'll sort it out together.
Book a 1:1 call →