Product Designer / St. John's, Canada

Mark
Connolly

I'm a Canadian-based Product Designer with 8 years of experience across graphic design, brand, and digital product work. I studied Industrial and Interaction Design at Humber College, where I focused on human-centered design and picked up a couple of academic awards along the way. Professionally, I've led design at an a16z-backed startup, working end-to-end across research, UX, UI, design systems, onboarding, and marketing in close collaboration with product and engineering teams. Most of my work sits at the seam between brand art direction and the day-to-day product experience, making sure things feel cohesive across product, web, and marketing without any of those surfaces drifting from each other. I tend to gravitate toward ambiguous problems, bringing structure to complexity, and designing experiences that are visually considered as well as genuinely useful and easy to understand.