Quinn Kessler
About

Hi, I’m Quinn.

Background

I’m a multidisciplinary designer studying User Experience & Interaction Design at Drexel’s Westphal College, and I like being the person who can take an idea from research all the way to working code.

I grew up just outside Washington, DC, and I’ve always made things across a lot of different media. I started with traditional art, then fell in love with digital art in high school making graphics for sports teams. That’s still where a lot of my instincts for type, texture and contrast come from.

At Universal Marble & Granite I ran the website and digital marketing for a Philadelphia kitchen and bath showroom: design, front-end build, SEO, analytics, and a monthly content calendar. Before that I designed store and website mockups for My Dad’s Chips, a snack brand in 850+ retail locations, and spent a summer as a STAR Scholar. For that research I compared existing PBIS platforms, then designed and prototyped the Young Dragons PBIS System, a mobile-friendly, token-based tool that helps summer program staff reward positive student behavior.

Outside of class I’m an Adobe Next Campus Leader for Drexel, bringing Adobe’s tools and events to campus, and I’m heading to Adobe MAX in Miami this November. I’m also VP of Recruitment and Design Chair for Delta Sigma Phi, where I recruited a 14-member new member class, organized 5 events and negotiated a sponsorship with Red Bull.

When I’m not designing, I’m usually running, snowboarding or traveling. I love to travel, and the past few years have taken me to Acadia, Denver, Japan and Montreal. I’m a runner too: I ran the 2025 Philadelphia Marathon, plus the Broad Street Run.

I still paint and take photos, and some of that lives in the Playground. I’m also working my way through Philly’s food scene, and at home my cat Pumpkin supervises.

  • Sep 2026–now
    Adobe Next Campus LeaderAdobe for Education · Drexel
  • Mar–Sep 2026
    Digital Marketing Specialist Co-opUniversal Marble & Granite
  • Jul 2025–now
    VP of Recruitment & Design ChairDelta Sigma Phi, Gamma Chi
  • Jun–Sep 2025
    STAR Scholar, UX ResearcherDrexel Pennoni Honors College · Young Dragons PBIS System
  • May–Jul 2024
    Mockup DesignerMy Dad’s Chips
  • Expected 2029
    BS, UX & Interaction DesignDrexel University, Westphal College
Off the clock

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On AI

I use AI tools openly, and I’d rather say so here than leave it as a question.

This site is the clearest example. I built it with Claude. I set the direction: the references, the type and color system, the price-tag portrait, which work to show and how to frame it. Claude wrote most of the HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I reviewed every change in the browser and on my phone, sent screenshots back when something was off, like posters that only loaded on hover or bullets that rendered unevenly, and cut ideas that didn’t earn their place, like a paper-grain texture I tried and dropped.

I’ve also used it to turn raw research notes into these case studies and to tighten my resume. The research, sketches and design decisions behind them are mine.

The way I see it, AI can speed up the making, but the judgment has to stay with me. If I can’t explain why something looks or works the way it does, it isn’t done. Used that way, it gives me more time for the parts of design I care about most: talking to people, sketching, and deciding what’s worth building in the first place.

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