“Mari is one of those once-in-a-work-lifetime talents who straps a rocket onto your project. It’s no exaggeration to say she’s the best design mind I’ve ever collaborated with. So intuitive, creative, resourceful and a total joy as a teammate. She understands user behavior like no one else and has a clear vision for the life of a product and the design skills to execute one hundred and ten percent. She is the ultimate do-er. Cannot recommend her enough.”

— Kate Talamo / Founder / Must Discuss

“Mari provided great design ideas rooted in a great deal of experience. She had concise and clear solutions. Her modern design style proved to be a great direction and fit for our goals.”

— Leif Pedersen / RenderMan Specialist / Pixar Animation Studios

“Mari is truly top of her field - not only is she a seasoned product designer with exceptionally sharp instincts and an aesthetic eye, she brings a consultative and collaborative touch that a Product Manager can lean on and learn from as much as they wish. Her expertise made our app work 10x better, and our collaboration made me a stronger PM. Her work was always on time and polished. She regularly surprised and delighted me, and our front end engineers loved coding her work. She’s a genuine pleasure to work with and I look forward to pulling her in on our next project.”

— Emory Sullivan / Founder / Genba

“Mari is a pleasure to work with. She easily comes up with great ideas for representing information and functionality. While her work speaks for itself, I value her passion, smarts, dedication and commitment to the projects she commits to.”

— Moises Woldenberg / CEO / Intersteel Corporation

“Mari is a vivid designer with incredible visual sensibilities. She’s down-to-earth, friendly, easy to work with, and overall—fantastically talented. She was the special ingredient that always made our work shine at Symantec. I would enthusiastically endorse her and would love to work with her again at the drop of a hat. She’s one of those people who makes the others around her better, just the sort of person I love to have on my team.”

— Michael Kopcsak / UX Design and Researcher Leader / Cisco

“I had the pleasure to work with Mari on a large Web Experience project at Adobe.com that required her to improvise, deliver top notch solutions and communicate them to a number of teams spread across the globe. She did an amazing job and ensured a quality user experience as well as accelerating the teams output. She is fun to work with, a great team player and communicator. She is a great asset for any project that requires exceptional user experience design.”

— Markus Staas / Senior Product Manager / Digital Experience Platforms / Apple

“I have had the pleasure and benefit of working with Mari for over 6 years at Symantec. Mari is truly a stellar designer — she has an incredible sense of visual style and balance, all the while capturing the essence of a brand with ease. She is highly committed to fulfilling the needs and goals of both the business and the end users with equal passion. Her years of experience in the field bring a multitude of invaluable skills and conceptual thinking to any team. As a lead designer, she is self-directed and self-motivated, and she contributes value at any level required. In an art-director role, she provides thoughtful and actionable direction or consultation that considerably up levels the work. Also noteworthy, Mari goes head-to-head with tight deadlines and high visibility jobs…hitting it "out of the park" each and every time. It never ceased to amaze me how quickly she could produce beautiful design solutions when confronted with project pressures or limitations. I recommend Mari very highly.”

— Maureen Welze / Group Manager, Experience Design / Intuit

“I've had the pleasure of working with Mari on our website when I was CEO at HF Capital and she consistently delivered beautiful, creative work. I worked with her remotely and she repeatedly delivered professional high-quality work on time, every time. She shows excellent creative sensibilities and professional reliability--Mari is a creative perfectionist. Whether its strategic, visual or user experience design or branding, she knows her stuff! I highly recommend her.”

— Greg Freihofner / CEO / Unified Commerce Group