I'm Mackenzie, a designer and creative problem solver.

With nearly a decade of experience designing across brand and product surfaces, I develop elegant solutions to complex problem spaces, craft captivating visuals, and love collaborating with a team.

Currently freelancing full time, I help early stage startups establish a brand and web presence by designing visual identities, websites, and brand collateral. Previously, I've worked on the in-house creative teams at Strava, Twitter, and Just Women's Sports shaping how those brands showed up across all touch points.

When I'm not designing, you can find me biking, skiing, or biting off more than I can chew on DIY projects around my apartment.

Education

Stanford University
B.A. Art Practice

Skills

  • Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
  • Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify
  • An assortment of other acronym-adjacent tools (CMS! CRM! ESP!)
  • Creative problem solver who gets fired up by digging into complex, messy problem spaces
  • Organized, process-driven designer with familiarity developing and working with design systems
  • Highly collaborative teammate who loves to partner cross-functionally

Experience

Freelance Designer
Jul 2023 - Present

Supporting early stage startups establish a brand presence by designing visual identities, websites, and brand collateral.

Design Lead
Just Women's Sports
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023

Managed a small team of in-house and freelance designers and oversaw agency partnerships. Redesigned the company’s visual identity, shaping how the brand showed up across all touch points from experiential design to the weekly e-mail newsletter. Orchestrated and oversaw the redesign of the JWS website, introducing data-rich functionality while keeping editorial content front and center.

Design Manager
Strava
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

Collaborated with product teams to create a stronger connection between external brand touch points and the in-app experience for a more seamless user journey. Worked cross-functionally to design the first-ever Tour de France content hub in the product. Designed an in-app data visualization feature for athletes to review their stats from the previous month, aligning product data visualization with the brand design language. Managed a junior designer; oversaw agency partnerships.

Senior Designer
Strava
May 2019 - Mar 2022

Led the internal design team of the Year in Sport campaign for multiple years, bringing the experience in-app for the first time, developing the creative strategy of the campaign and UX of the in-app feature, and acting as a liaison between our engineering team and our agency partner. Conceptualized and designed a self-service website page builder to enable non-designers to quickly create on-brand web pages without additional design or engineering resources. Developed the creative strategy and design language for the Strava paywall shift campaign.

Visual Designer
Twitter
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019

Conceptualized, pitched, and executed brand, product launch, and co-marketing campaigns, including film, out-of-home, and digital marketing deliverables. Designed a breadth of brand assets from global presentation decks to emoji illustrations.

Visual Designer
Commonwealth Club of CA
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017

Designed and produced materials to support all departments across the organization.