Kelly Murdoch-Kitt

Assistant Professor

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Office: 2081 AA
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Curriculum Vitae

MGD, North Carolina State University
BA (Fine Art & Theatre), Wake Forest University

Biography

Kelly Murdoch-Kitt is a user experience designer and educator focused on people, systems, and interpersonal interactions. In her work and teaching, human connection drives the creation of effective and socially responsible concepts.

She integrates visual communication, user experience, and service design with behavior change and social engagement, drawing on her professional experience as a user experience strategist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Murdoch-Kitt is the author of Intercultural Collaboration by Design: Drawing from Differences, Distances, and Disciplines through Visual Thinking (Routledge 2020). Based on her research with Associate Professor Denielle Emans at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, their book offers more than thirty visual thinking activities to support effective collaboration among diverse teams. Murdoch-Kitt enjoys bringing these topics to life in the classroom, particularly through virtual exchanges with Professor Emans’ design courses. Murdoch-Kitt and Emans are currently working together on The ORBIT Project, an acronym that stands for the “Online Resource for Building Intercultural Teams.”

Prior to joining the Stamps School of Art & Design faculty, Murdoch-Kitt served as an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She also created and taught a variety of courses in the Graphic Design Programs at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts. She is a recent alumna of the national Steering Committee for the AIGA Design Educators Community, an organization that aims to support and foster professional development for design educators. Her excellence in teaching and contributions to service within the discipline have been recognized by the Design Incubation Communication Design Educator Awards: Intercultural Design Collaborations in Sustainability; and the Decipher 2018 Design Educators Research Conference.

In the News

• Stamps Community at the 109th Annual CAA Conference
• International Experience @ Home: Global Studio
• In Teaching Under Quarantine, Connection & Tangible Work Are Key
• Kelly Murdoch-Kitt’s Timely Book Published
• Melanie Manos, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt Named Summer Faculty Fellows at Institute for the Humanities
• Kelly Murdoch-Kitt Provides Tips for Remote Learning, Working
• Kelly Murdoch-Kitt and Omar Sosa-Tzec recognized for Decipher 2018
• Stamps Community at the 108th Annual CAA Conference
• Kelly Murdoch-Kitt Selected as Design Incubation Fellow
• Decipher Conference Nominated for Design Incubation Awards
• Student Spotlight: Maddi Lelli + Michigan Medicine
• Stamps Typography Students Recognized at Tasmeem Doha 2019
• Design Research at Stamps: Decipher 2018
• Interactive & Inclusive Spatial Experiences
• CAA Podcast Features Kelly Murdoch-Kitt
• Rising Up During Finals Week
• New Stamps Faculty