Kind words people are saying

Feedback from teammates and collaborators

Tim Brown
Design Manager, Pearson

Katie is an exceptional design professional and a joy to work with. She brings a rare combination of meticulous attention to detail and big-picture thinking—equally comfortable refining the smallest UI element as she is shaping a scalable, cohesive experience across a complex product ecosystem.

Katie has an outstanding design aesthetic and a clear eye for visual hierarchy, accessibility, and consistency. She has led the evolution of our design system with both vision and precision, ensuring it’s not only beautiful but practical and scalable across multiple teams and products.

She consistently goes beyond the immediate ask—anticipating future needs, building extensible components, and preparing thoughtful documentation and assets that accelerate future development. Her proactive mindset means that when a feature gets prioritized, Katie often already has a solution ready.

Katie is a delight to work with. She leads by example, communicates with clarity and purpose, and fosters strong relationships across UX, product, and engineering. Her can-do attitude and steady leadership raise the bar for everyone around her.

In short, Katie is an outstanding individual contributor with the mindset of a design leader. Any team would be lucky to have her.

Vidya Angeri
Senior Creative Technologist, Pearson

I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Katie for over two years, and I can confidently say that she is an exceptional visual designer. Her thoughtfulness and openness to ideas and challenges have made her an invaluable asset to our team.

Katie played a pivotal role in setting up our new design system, where she seamlessly collaborated with UX designers and developers alike. Her ability to bring clarity to complex design problems, while also ensuring alignment across teams, is a testament to her expertise and dedication.

Her work consistently combines creative vision with a pragmatic approach, and her willingness to listen and iterate makes her a standout designer. I highly recommend Katie for any team looking for someone who excels at both the strategic and hands-on aspects of design.

Vishwanath Patil
Software Engineering Manager, Pearson

In my experience of working with Katie for a little over 2 years now, I've found her to be an exceptional professional with astute visual design skills. Her designs are very clear, thorough, well-documented, pragmatic and extensible with a keen eye on future modifications/iterations. Her ability to deliver clear designs even when the requirements at times were fuzzy at best, is a testament to her wealth of experience and design acumen.

Beyond her very sound technical skills, Katie professionalism showcases on the fact that she leads from the front in terms of aligning people across UX, product and engineering teams. This certainly has helped the developers on my team to collaborate with her seamlessly. She's very open and accepting of input from all corners which makes it a treat to work with her.

Katie in her current role has certainly gone above and beyond her role responsibilities and this makes her the go-to person for me whenever I've needed any help or clarity on any design related concerns; all while ensuring an ease of collaboration. Thereby, I highly recommend Katie to any team that would like to have a technically sound and extremely collaborative visual design professional who very much leads from the front.

David Greene
Senior Software Engineer, Pearson

The design-to-dev process we've used on Modern XL has been the most effective and collaborative I've experienced at Pearson in the past six years.

  • “She is always curious about what’s coming up and tries to think holistically with the end goal in mind. Quick to respond to questions, offers constructive feedback, and is always happy to work out a compromise solution when the first request is not workable.”

    —Anonymous Peer Review

  • “She takes feedback very positively and listens to what is being asked. Our working relationship is overwhelmingly positive. Keep doing what you’re doing!”

    — Anonymous Peer Review

  • Her ability to come up with new, innovative ideas is second to none. She helped drive our content marketing function with beautiful design work that ultimately led to huge growth in our client base. Katie leads with compassion, patience and kindness, and truly cares about the people she works with.

    — Corrin Salamatian,
    Content Marketing Manager

  • “Katie is quite simply: great. Great vision, great design skills, great direction, great problem-solving, great collaboration, great attitude and great dedication to producing top-quality work time after time---and not settling for less. “

    — Andy Lyons, Photographer

  • Katie is a unique hybrid of three amazing qualities: 1. An empathetic and strong leader 2. An extremely creative designer, and 3. She exhibits the attention to detail of a project manager all rolled up into one person!

    — Lori Faiola, Senior Designer