Kate was named as an award winning designer through YunoJuno as their Freelancer of the Year

About me.

Age 3, starting her tattoos young

Kate wanted to be a designer from an early age. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design in London and went on to complete her studies at Middlesex University, achieveing a BA in Graphic Communication.

Winning YunoJuno’s Freelancer of the Year award 2018

With a start in advertising, Kate worked for the likes of Ogilvy, McCann and Havas. She then went on to establish her career globally, working for clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Spotify and a host of other major brands.

Kate has gone on to share valuable insights into the world of product design by sharing her experience through podcasts, UX conferences and articles.

Freedom Unscripted Ep.09: A Slice of Remote Work Heaven

Kate and her wife Annabelle share their inspiring freelance journeys. They discuss the challenges of achieving what once felt like an unattainable dream—creating thriving, independent careers and crafting a remote work life they love.

Testimonials.

  • While my expectations were high, Kate exceeded them constantly.

    Kate joined us to work on a super challenging project to lead the experience design, working with product owners, developers and business stakeholders to bring to life a vision for digital transformation. While my expectations were high, Kate exceeded them constantly, proving that she is excellent in a design leadership role, delivering consistently high standards of design work, but also managing expectations, working closely with the teams to ensure timely delivery, and keeping a cool head in the fast-paced environment of an agile project team. More valuable than that even, Kate is an amazing design colleague and partner, supporting the rest of team and helping them make the right decisions based on the customer insights and business requirements. Kate is highly professional, exceptionally pragmatic and just an excellent, honest team member. I’d recommend anyone looking for a first-rate freelancer to pick Kate.

    Tim Caynes Principal Designer, Foolproof

  • An incredible asset to any team, both established and new.

    Kate joined nez as our Creative Lead in December 2017 for 3 months full time and wound down to giving ad hoc support. She was tasked with overhauling our entire brand and introducing a full suite of UI components for our app. She’s incredible in keeping a number of stakeholders with differing ideas all at bay and is great at both concepting all the way through to execution. Throughout our year of scaling up nez, whenever we’ve needed a hand, no matter how last minute, Kate will work the extra mile and deliver over and above any expectation. She really is best-in-class and I couldn’t recommend her enough

    Mitchell Mark CCO, nez

  • Kate has been a revelation for our company.

    We were looking for someone to provide us with a sophisticated new website design, but one which we could iterate and change content for as our business evolved. Kate heard the brief load and clear, and gave us something that was both creatively appealing and sufficiently flexible to enable the design to move with our business development. Since then we’ve involved her on ad hoc pieces of print and digital design work - it’s always excellent, both visually and technically. But perhaps the best thing about working with Kate is that she is a great person. Always professional, but fun and easy to work with, even for those of us that have a non-existent design or tech background. She explains things well, isn’t afraid to say she doesn’t think something is a good idea and always has a far superior alternative suggestion.

    Claire Jarvis GM, HubBox

  • Kate brings a level of professionalism but with a huge amount of personality.

    Working with Kate has been an absolute dream. She brings a level of professionalism but with a huge amount of personality. Her work is fantastic so incredibly efficient without sacrificing any of the quality. Years of knowledge and experience make her an incredible designer that I have enjoyed every minute of working with. The work she has done at ATG has been amazing without her the project wouldn't be where it is now. You are truly lucky to have someone like her on your platform.

    Fern Taylor Design Lead, ATG Tickets

  • Her work is always of a high quality and delivered in good time.

    Having worked with Kate in previous roles I was thrilled to be able to bring her in on a project at Plumen. In my experience she is always quick to pick up the essence of a brand and has superb attention to detail. Her work is always of a high quality and delivered in good time. She is also just a pleasure to work with and makes everything very easy.

    Kate MacKnight Head of Marketing, Plumen