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Work

Services

Meet McKaila

Resume

Say hi!

AVAILABLE FOR OCT 2026

Hey y'all, I'm McKaila!

I'm a product designer and food-loving gamer who's passionate about helping growing businesses and startups turn problems into simple and approachable solutions for everyone.

Recently: designed an incident reporting and patrol routing app for Philly Truce.

Currently based in Pennsylvania!

Selected Work

A few projects I've been brewing on lately.

Designing Field Tools for Philly Truce's Peace Patrol

A mobile platform helping Peace Patrol Officers document incidents and coordinate patrols in real time. (Nov 2024–Jun 2025)

Mobile App

Non Profit

Civic

2024

The Hidden Zen of Headspace

A natural language search flow for people who open the app with a feeling. (Jun–Aug 2025)

UX Research

Product Design

2025

Academic

My Services

What I do best — let's see if we click.

UX Audit

A UX audit of your live site or app: kickoff, an annotated report with screenshots, a prioritized action plan, analytics and page-speed notes, and a follow-up call.

Product / App Design

End-to-end product and app design: discovery, wireframes and UI in Figma, a small design system, a clickable prototype, and developer handoff — with two rounds of revisions.

Website Design & Build

Custom website design and development on Framer, Webflow, Squarespace, or Wix — Figma first when the layout is new, then a live responsive site with SEO optimization and launch. Hosting and small updates available from $75/month.

Branding & Visual Content

Logo, brand voice color, and typography, plus the visuals you need for the site — social images, simple graphics, or photo direction.

About Me

Woah, that's me! :0

I always wanted to design stuff. I just didn't have a word for it until my early twenties. Before then? Years of customer service. Watching people get angry at clunky apps, confusing forms, products clearly built for someone other than them.

Then I found UX and the whole thing clicked. Turns out spending years calming down frustrated callers teaches you a few things. How to spot what people actually need. How to keep your cool when things get messy. How to turn someone's worst day into a solution. I bring that same instinct to my design work now.

When I'm not designing, I'm gaming with my husband or finding new hobbies on TikTok like everyone else. I’m looking for product design work, freelance or on a team.

Sound like someone you'd want on your team?

Say hi!

How I Work

A loose process, not a rigid checklist :)

Listen first

I kick off with the questions most people skip. Goals, users, what's been tried, where things are stuck.

Step one

Listen first

I kick off with the questions most people skip. Goals, users, what's been tried, where things are stuck.

Step one

Listen first

I kick off with the questions most people skip. Goals, users, what's been tried, where things are stuck.

Step one

Sketch & explore

Ideas on paper first. Wireframes, flows, rough drafts you can react to before anything looks "finished."

Step two

Sketch & explore

Ideas on paper first. Wireframes, flows, rough drafts you can react to before anything looks "finished."

Step two

Sketch & explore

Ideas on paper first. Wireframes, flows, rough drafts you can react to before anything looks "finished."

Step two

Design & prototype

Polished mockups and clickable prototypes. You play with the real thing before I commit.

Step three

Design & prototype

Polished mockups and clickable prototypes. You play with the real thing before I commit.

Step three

Design & prototype

Polished mockups and clickable prototypes. You play with the real thing before I commit.

Step three

Refine & ship

I iterate until it feels right. Then I hand off final files or build the whole site in Framer for you.

Step four

Refine & ship

I iterate until it feels right. Then I hand off final files or build the whole site in Framer for you.

Step four

Refine & ship

I iterate until it feels right. Then I hand off final files or build the whole site in Framer for you.

Step four

Wanna build something cool?

Same! Let's talk about it. I usually reply within a day or two.

📧 mckailaz6@gmail.com

💼 LinkedIn

Wanna build something cool?

Same! Let's talk about it. I usually reply within a day or two.

📧 mckailaz6@gmail.com

💼 LinkedIn

Product designer & food-loving gamer. Currently in Pennsylvania, available for remote work.

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