ABOUT

Beyond user experience, you'll likely find me spending quality time with my dog, enjoying nature through walks, hikes, and cycling, staying balanced through fitness, teaching Ai Chi, practicing yoga and meditation, traveling to explore new cultures and learning the Swedish language. More recently, pet sitting and dog walking with my pet sitting business, Cosmic Pets.

Creating Calm in a Noisy Digital World

Our current world requires an immense amount of cognitive energy. Just navigating the mandatory tasks of daily life—paying bills, managing health, finding information—can feel completely overwhelming.

I’ve seen too many clunky websites, frustrating interfaces, and deceptive dark patterns that make life harder than it needs to be. I don’t think design should add to that noise. I believe it should eliminate it.

At the core of why I love what I do is a simple mission: to alleviate frustration and create simplicity for people.

How I Build to Ease Friction

Bringing calm to a user experience requires a rare blend of high-end visual craft and rigorous system architecture. Here is how I partner with teams to make that happen:

  • I use my deep background in visual design not just to make things look "beautiful," but to design clear, clean visual hierarchies that effortlessly guide a user’s eye through a complex system.

  • Easing user frustration requires easing team frustration first. I actively collaborate with engineers, product managers, and marketing leads to find the sweet spot where business strategy, technical reality, and user empathy meet.

  • True simplicity means design that works for everyone. Whether I'm building an onboarding flow for a B2B SaaS platform or designing a recovery app for stroke survivors, I architect experiences that minimize cognitive load and respect the user's time.

UX Design Skills

Positive Feedback from Clients & Peers

  • “Jennie's skillset is dynamic and includes leading designers from idea to concept to product. She is a great teammate who is willing to see other's opinions and is constantly working to understand how to elicit open feedback from others. Jennie can adapt to teams with many different backgrounds, various cultures, and dynamic backgrounds.”

    Drew B., PsyD. — Chief Creative Officer

  • “I had the pleasure of working with Jennie during her co-op placement, where she supported us in the development of our platform. Jennie's enthusiasm, precision, and collaborative spirit made her a joy to work with, and I highly recommend her for any UX/UI design role.”

    Flavia Zhamo — Founder, EC Studios & Everyday Chemist

  • “Jennie Mason is a creative, talented, world-class graphic designer. She possesses an unending arsenal of both print and digital design skills that have continually wowed our clients as well as garnered international awards. She's always open to learning new techniques, discussing new trends, and continually improving her skillset.”

    Jamie R. — Creative Director & Creative Career Coach

  • “Jennie is an amazing designer and one of the best designers I have worked with. She took everything we talked about into account and created the ideal logo for our startup… Jennie was professional, quick to respond and an absolute joy to work with.”

    Jackie M. — Co-Founder of ON COURSE

  • “Jennie is very skilled with UI and has strengthened her skills with UX to become a very talented Product Designer. She can take a disorganized idea and turn it into an attractive and well thought out design.”

    Drew B., PsyD. — Chief Creative Officer

  • “She is a teammate 100%, working for the benefit of all, and constantly brings new design innovations to our marketing strategies. I love working with Jennie!”

    Stephanie G. — Project Manager at Northwest Natural Gas

  • “She is always a pleasure to work with, taking maddening deadlines and unreasonable demands in stride, almost always with a smile! Jennie is an asset to any creative team!”

    Jennifer P. C., Copywriter

  • “Jennie is so good! She designed my first website for barre3.com which I continued to get compliments on several years later. She worked really well with me to bring my brand to life in a hip, forward thinking, and design savvy way. She is the real deal. I HIGHLY recommend her.”

    Sadie Lincoln, Co-Founder of Barre 3

  • “Jennie is a delight to work with! She is always positive, professional, and pleasant. I could not recommend Jennie more highly and have thoroughly enjoyed managing and collaborating with her over the past several years.”

    Jamie R. — Creative Director & Creative Career Coach

  • “I thoroughly enjoyed working with Jennie. We had some challenging projects and tight deadlines and Jennie was always on board to tackle anything. She is talented, fun, tough... and I would love to be able to work with her again.”

    Olga K. — Project Manager

  • “In fewer than 2 years, Jennie's advanced design expertise and execution has helped CSG and our marketing team win new marketing contracts in California, renewed marketing contracts for 2015, consistently positive feedback from clients and multiple design awards.”

    Stephanie G. — Project Manager at Northwest Natural Gas

  • “Jennie has an adaptable, imaginative eye, capturing just the right aesthetic no matter the company nor the industry. Her meticulous attention to detail is hard not to notice.”

    Jennifer P. C., Copywriter

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