Shopify · MYOB · TeacherGPT
Kelly Jepsen Product Designer
I’m a product designer from New Zealand and co-founder of TeacherGPT. I spent 8 years in Growth at Shopify, focused on making sure new users were setting up and launching their stores. I believe in good design that has a real, measurable impact. We should take pride in what we create.
KellyOS
Explore KellyOS and experience my work first-hand
A portfolio you can interact with. Discover my work, and play with the details. I designed KellyOS as an expression of my craft: Software. It's a working example of how I can think and execute as a designer.
TeacherGPT is my main focus and the work that best represents me as a product designer. Since leaving Shopify in April 2026, I’ve spent almost all my time building its brand and product.
TeacherGPT started as an opportunistic side project. My brother-in-law and I saw an opportunity to build a wrapper around ChatGPT for our own family: our wives and brothers were teachers. What started as “just a wrapper” quickly grew into a suite of bespoke tools for teachers in New Zealand and Australia. What began with friends and family using it has grown to over 1,400 teachers.
We’ve been working with local schools and teachers across the country, improving and growing TeacherGPT around the things they need in their classrooms.
- paid users
- 1,400+
- resources created
- 500,000+
Website
Full web design for New Zealand, Australia, and the United States regions.
Iconography
I created a unique, distinctive family of icons for the product.
Dashboard
Our app's home (dashboard). Finding the right balance of guidance and flexibility with our suite of tools.
Navigation
A powerful, customizable navigation bar supports teachers in the ways they want to work.
Chat
I designed a flexible, but powerful chat interface to help teachers customize and manage the resources they create.
Library
Their resource library, with filters and previews to make finding and reusing work easy.
Small components,
for you to play.
A collection of UI patterns and experiments, designed by me and built with Codex. Try them below.
Great teams make great products.
I’ve spent my career building software with teams at tiny start-ups and large organisations. I’ve always believed that great teams make great products, and that designers play an integral role in helping teams work well together.
We’re uniquely positioned to visualise the future, rally teams around a shared vision, and create the artefacts that help turn that vision into reality.
I’ve designed products for Shopify, MYOB, Figured, writr, TeacherGPT, LayerX, and more. This has always been my craft: finding problems worth solving and designing solutions.
Experience
Currently building TeacherGPT as Co-Founder & Lead Designer.
- 2020–2026 Shopify Staff Product Designer
- 2019–2020 MYOB Senior Product Designer
- 2018–2019 Shopify Senior Product Designer
- 2016–2017 MYOB Senior Product Designer
- 2015–2016 Figured UX Designer
- 2014–2015 MYOB UX Designer
- 2013–2017 writr Lead Designer
- 2013–2014 LayerX UI/UX Designer
- 2012–2013 theCloud Systems
- 2011–2012 Emblems NZ Designer
My time at Shopify
My work spanned logistics and merchant onboarding, from redesigning the Order Index to helping new merchants set up their stores and make their first sales.
I grew from Designer to Senior Designer, then Staff Designer, taking projects from customer research and early exploration through prototyping and launch. In Growth, I worked closely with engineering, product, and data partners on onboarding tasks and a persistent setup guide.
That experience shaped how I work with data, design experiments, build product strategy, and bring people together around a problem.
From the archive
Old side projects and other pieces of work, from identities and book covers to apps and videos.
- The Tour ↗Book cover
- Occamise ↗Identity
- G-Castle ↗Identity
- FPS Kelly ↗YouTube & streaming
- Foodee ↗Restaurant order-management app
- White Lies ↗Book cover
- writr ↗Journaling app