It's my job to improve the interactions people have with companies and experiences of all kinds. I develop UX content, product designs, visual design, UX design, marketing design, photography and illustration, conduct research, help with strategy or whatever is needed to propel movement in the desired direction.
I've worked mostly in startups and SMBs, but also in large corporations, on a mix of consumer facing and B2B products, in games and entertainment, clean energy, education, business and productivity tech.
When creating content, brand elements, buyer journeys, interaction or visual designs, I advocate for customer and business goals together, using the "why" for "who" and resulting product principals as a guide.
I'm a Designer of UX Content, Graphics and Software Products, in roles working with teams building apps, sites, games and SaaS products, additionally helping those businesses and organizations develop better marketing content along the way.
Digital Promotions Design for Live Nation Brand Partnerships
Major Brands such as Coke, Mabelline, Dunkin', Bacardi, White Claw, Diplomático, Club Wyndham and more.
Digital concert, festival and brand promotions are part of Live Nation's business strategy and revenue generation.
I provide visual design for promotional landing pages, social, and contest apps showcasing these partnerships between Live Nation, venues, festivals and brands.
I create landscape paintings and in particular, I am drawn to the colors and light in Washington, British Columbia and Hawaii.
Design, art direction and content for this mid-sized landscape construction and engineering company. They do incredible work all over western Washington and we were able to refresh the presentation showcasing their projects. Lucky to work with a great web dev and a number of talented photographers on the site.
CloudRunner is a B2B, cloud-based SaaS app for Accounting and HR groups, gathering industry specific tools in one place, featuring single sign in and permissions management for multiple users.
As part of a small team we worked on research, flows, feature design, UX and UI design, prototyping, buyer journeys and mapping, the product website, How to and Getting Started content, copy, creative for advertising, marketing, and anything needed for this startup which was acquired by a cloud hosting company.
TankZen is an Internet of Things project connecting aquarium tank sensors with a mobile app, to monitor tank health and save fish, increasing owner satisfaction. Visual and product design, UX and UI design
This all-season resort located inside the Mt Rainier National Forest in Washington State has modern amenities and is in the middle of world-class recreation.
Advertising, Design and Photography
Visual, product and UX design for over 60 games along with their their advertising, marketing, and white-labeling for companies like Yahoo and MSNGames.
Visual design and animation, for multiple projects and groups at Microsoft
Visual design, site design, content creation, copywriting, strategy, social content, print design, environmental design, photography for personal training studio Core Centric Training
Visual Design for Clean Energy companies: Gridpoint, V2Green, Standard Renewable Energy, ADM Micro.
I provided visual design and photography for advertising, internal and external marketing, websites, multiple company acquisitions and overall brand refreshes.
BooksILove was an iPhone app created to share book recommendations with friends and followers, publicly or privately.
Marina was a direct report while working at CloudRunner. The product was brand new and required an immense amount of thought leadership in terms of usability, design approach and look/feel. She was instrumental in our successful product launch which led later to an acquisition. I would love to work with her again.
Marina has been an invaluable member of our team on several projects ranging from presentation and design to copywriting. Her creative and artistic abilities are fantastic and have greatly improved our marketing and presentation materials.
Marina updated and gamified our original app vision with high quality solutions that were smart and beautiful in every detail. She thinks about the user experience and recommends options that work for users and the business. Marina is an absolute pleasure to work with – creative, intelligent and incredibly productive.
I have been working with Marina for about three years now. She has been elemental in Mad Meow's growth. She branded my music across social media channels, developed media content, helped me with writing and has supported me in finding my voice and creating an online identity true to who I am. I don't know what Mad Meow Music would do without her.
Marina has helped us create our social media and publishing voice. She taught us how to communicate with advertising and marketing teams to consistently produce content that is recognizable to our brand. Our social media platform was non existent. Marina built a deck of ads for us to pull from. With the deck of ads we can quickly choose a content piece, contact Marina and have it current within minutes.
"The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host, anticipating the needs of his guests."
—Charles Eames
My #1 super power is listening . My genuine interest and empathic nature allow others to share their authentic selves, and me to advocate for both business and UX.
I enjoy writing and condensing ideas and messaging into smaller manageable parts, to help users learn, create product awareness, increase adoption and support it all along the way.
All the design things. Visual design with color, layout, photography, illustration, iconography. Type. Hierarchy. Contrast. Readability. All the Adobe products + Figma...oh wait...just all the Adobe products then.