About

Kelly Harris Smith is a design director specializing in color, materials, and product systems across interior, architectural, lighting, textile, and acoustic applications.

With a background spanning interiors, product design, and entrepreneurship, her work bridges material innovation, color direction, and human-centered design. She is particularly interested in how materials are experienced across product, space, and brand, from physical application to showroom, sample, and digital representation.

Kelly’s work is informed by ongoing research across hospitality, contract, and residential interiors, alongside hands-on material exploration through drawing and painting. This balance of market awareness and physical making informs cohesive color and material systems across product and environment.

Kelly is the founder of Minni, an art and design education studio in Boston, and previously co-founded FilzFelt, later acquired by Knoll.

Her work has been recognized by publications and organizations including Interior Design Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, NYCxDESIGN, and HiP Awards. She is also the co-author of Universal Principles of Interior Design, a widely used reference book on design systems and applied principles.