Kyara Lora
UX / Product Designer
Summary
UX/Product Designer with 2+ years of experience designing enterprise, AI, and education products across Google Cloud Platform and Google Classroom. Translates ambiguous technical problems into intuitive, scalable experiences through user research, rapid prototyping, accessibility-first design, and close partnership with product and engineering teams.
Experience
BeReal Product Management & Design Extern, Remote
Sep 2026 to Present
Facilitated via the Extern platform
- Designed and prototyped high-fidelity BeReal concepts in Figma, translating growth-strategy ideas into testable product directions for stakeholder and user review.
- Shaped roadmap decisions from 9 participants by facilitating focus groups and structured surveys, then translating usability findings into prioritized UX recommendations.
- Built a leadership-ready rollout proposal by combining user research, competitive benchmarking, and go-to-market planning into one clear product recommendation.
Google UX Design Apprentice, New York, NY
Feb 2025 to Aug 2026
Google Cloud Databases
- Established reasoning and transparency UX patterns for Gemini Cloud Assist, driving partner-team adoption and contributing to a featured Google Cloud Next ’26 Developer Keynote demo.
- Supported an estimated $8.32M Oracle-to-GCE migration launch by evaluating setup flows with RITE research, delivering UX recommendations that unblocked product readiness.Case study: Charting the Migration
- Enabled fleet-wide triage for Database Center by designing an end-to-end issue-dismissal flow that bridged workflow gaps between legacy and modern APIs.Case study: Silence the Noise
- Influenced 20% of Cloud SQL’s next-quarter engineering roadmap by auditing key workflows and surfacing high-impact usability and pricing friction.
- Addressed a <1% resolution rate across 364K+ critical alerts by redesigning Cloud SQL recommendations to surface contextual, actionable fixes inside users’ active workflows.Case study: From Ambiguity to Action
- Delivered a fully scoped, engineering-ready design within 4 weeks by partnering with PM and engineering to align on user-centered trade-offs and unblock development.
Google Classroom
- Expanded discovery of revenue-generating P0 AI tools across 11+ Classroom teams by designing responsive onboarding components aligned with WCAG and Google Material 3.Case study: Just Enough Help
- Guided iteration of a generative AI assistant using feedback from 30+ educators, producing a risk-mitigation report focused on student AI over-reliance.
- Supported a +2.76% lift in monthly active users and a 91.2% ease-of-use score by testing homepage hierarchy, feature prioritization, and discoverability through structured usability testing.
Education & certifications
- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Education, & Korean LanguageUniversity at Albany, SUNY
- Certificate of Completion of Registered Apprenticeship, UX DesignU.S. Department of Labor & Google
- Google UX Design Professional CertificationCoursera
- Google AI Essentials CertificationCoursera
- CompTIA A+ CertificationCompTIA
Skills
- Technical & Tools
- Figma, Framer, Webflow, Adobe Creative Suite, Blender, GitHub, VS Code
- Languages & Libraries
- Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, React, Next.js, Angular, Node.js
- UX Design & Research
- High- & Low-fidelity Prototyping, Design Systems, Design-Dev Handoff, A/B Testing, User Interviews, Usability Testing, Data Synthesis, Cross-functional Collaboration
- Accessibility
- WCAG Guidelines, APCA Contrast Guidelines
- AI
- Gemini, AI Studio, Antigravity, Figma Make, ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, NotebookLM, Lovable









































