BREAKING
54% increase in digital tool adoption at leading medical center… Consumer brand’s Agentforce launched on time, on brief… Contractor portal goes live, day one adoption exceeds projections… Experience Cloud delivered production-ready, first pass… Data Cloud certification achieved with AI-generated study method… 54% increase in digital tool adoption at leading medical center… Consumer brand’s Agentforce launched on time, on brief… Contractor portal goes live, day one adoption exceeds projections… Experience Cloud delivered production-ready, first pass… Data Cloud certification achieved with AI-generated study method…
Thursday, July 10, 2026
All The UX That’s Fit To Ship
The Onion
Vol. 62 • Issue 27 • Irina Kelly • Senior Experience Designer • Salesforce
Sticky notes and evidence tape covering an entire office wall
Kelly’s workspace, which coworkers describe as “either genius or a cry for help.”
Breaking

Area Woman Spends 10 Years Transforming Complexity Into Clarity; Nobody Notices Because That’s The Whole Point

Sources confirm 20+ projects across 6 industries. Confusion levels at historic lows.

Irina Kelly
Irina Kelly — seen in what colleagues describe as her “I’ve already found six problems with your portal” expression.

BROOKLYN, NY — For over a decade, Senior Experience Designer Irina Kelly has been quietly entering enterprise organizations, locating their most confusing software, and making it simply work — a practice experts describe as “deeply suspicious” given how rarely it occurs.

“She just kept making things better,” said one visibly confused executive at a leading automotive retailer, who asked not to be named because he still doesn’t fully understand what happened. “We had a perfectly terrible portal. Users hated it. We’d accepted that. Then she showed up, and now people are using it voluntarily. It’s destabilizing.”

10+
Years Of Confusion Eliminated
20+
Portals Rescued
6
Industries, None Of Which Asked

Certifications Desk

All titles verified, unfortunately
Exhibit A

Local Designer Amasses Frankly Illegal Number Of Salesforce Certifications

Agentforce Specialist. Data 360 Consultant. Platform Administrator. Platform UX Designer. Any one would be a respectable career; all four at once has been referred to a committee.

Exhibit B

Woman Named “Agentforce Legend” Two Years Running

The 2025 designation was impressive. The 2026 repeat “moved it from achievement to pattern.” The title may now simply be permanent.

Exhibit C

Data Cloud Exam Prep Turned Into AI-Generated Podcast

Kelly fed her Quizlet questions into NotebookLM, generated a personal podcast, then passed the exam. Flashcards nationwide have requested a meeting.

Exhibit D

Stanford And Pratt Both Claim Credit For Same Designer

Stanford cites UI/UX for AI Products and Vibe Coding. Pratt cites AI Design, where Kelly now teaches. Neither will concede, and frankly, neither should.

News Briefs

Dispatches from six transformed industries

Area Hospital’s Software Adoption Up 54% After Someone Finally Asks Doctors What They Need

A research-backed UX intervention at a premier academic medical center. Someone asked. Adoption rose 54% among physicians, a population historically willing to fax.

Auto Retailer’s Partner Portal No Longer Hated; Executives “Destabilized”

Self-service, order visibility, a unified experience — resolving pain points partners had assumed were load-bearing.

Homebuilders Discover Software Can Feel Human; “Didn’t Know That Was An Option”

Consumer-grade design for a national homebuilder’s high-traffic portal. Thousands of homeowners now use enterprise software without visible suffering.

Contractors Now Receiving Leads At Alarming Speed; Dashboard Accused Of Being Actually Useful

The contractor-facing Experience Cloud portal streamlined speed-to-lead and surfaced actionable data, driving real engagement and revenue growth. One dashboard has been asked to slow down.

Man Who Builds Things For A Living Reportedly Impressed By How Well Portal Was Built

Kelly directed the Experience Cloud implementation and delivered a production-ready portal for a construction manufacturing leader. A local builder inspected the craftsmanship, nodded slowly, and confirmed it “would pass code.”

“Nobody has complained about user experience in six months. We are concerned.”
Executive, Leading Automotive Retailer, Filing A Complaint About The Absence Of Complaints

AI & Thought Leadership Desk

Human–robot relations, mediated daily

Woman Teaches Robots To Talk Like People And People To Talk To Robots; Refuses To Pick A Side

Both species report satisfaction.

By day, Kelly designs conversational AI experiences on Agentforce. By other parts of the day, she teaches AI Design at Pratt and trains humans in prompt engineering. Diplomats describe her as “the only neutral party left.”

Woman Teaches Entire Room How To Talk To AI; AI Reportedly “Finally Feeling Heard”

Her presentation on advanced prompting techniques sent a room of skeptics out the door writing noticeably better prompts. The AI’s answers improved immediately, a change it attributes to “someone finally using their words.”

Woman Builds 3 AI Agents In 5 Weeks; All 3 Immediately Request PTO

The intensive Agentforce bootcamp required hands-on development of three agents for Experience Cloud sites, with complex flows and AI integrations. All three remain employed. The PTO requests are pending.

Article On AI In Design Published Without A Single Empty Buzzword

“AI in Design 2025: What Real Use Taught Us,” on the Salesforce 360 Blog, drew its conclusions from actual use — a technique historians believed lost.

Editor’s Note

Readers have asked whether this publication is biased in favor of its subject. We wish to clarify: The Onion reports only verified facts. If those facts consistently make one Brooklyn-based experience designer look extremely qualified, we encourage readers to take it up with reality, which has repeatedly declined to comment.

Unsolicited Praise, Verified

Witnesses were not coached
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“She Crushed It,” Reports Director Who’s Still Looking For The Pieces

“She crushed it!” — Engagement Delivery Director, recorded at the consumer brand launch. Witness declined to elaborate, citing the completeness of the crushing.

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“She Is Working At The Next Level” Says Manager Who Is Unable To Specify Exactly Which Level

“I believe she has been working at the next level for the duration of this program.” — Engagement Delivery Director. When pressed to identify the level, he gestured upward and left the room.

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“She Will Truly Be Missed” — Product Owner, Reportedly Filing Formal Grief Paperwork

“Her UX experience and attention to detail has been impeccable.” — UX Product Owner, a leading automotive services brand. HR confirms grief paperwork does not exist but has agreed to look into it.

Let’s Connect

Interested In Experience Cloud, Agentforce, Or AI-Native Design Strategies?

Kelly says she’d love to hear from you—whether it’s a project collaboration, a speaking engagement, or just a conversation about where AI and design are heading. Sources confirm she means this, which is unusual for a professional bio.

Correction • July 9, 2026

An earlier version of this bio undersold her impact. We regret the error.