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About

Hello. My name is Cate McCarey. I am a creative lead, UX practitioner and product designer with over 15 years of customer-facing savvy. My focus is to design towards experience, influenced through methodologies that bring human insights and systems-level thinking to intent.

I have collaborated on product solutions for home, fashion, education, retail, financial, restaurant, and food/drink markets with people like these:

Coca Cola
Disney
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pearl Brewery
Ralph Lauren
Sanderson | Morris & Co.
Neiman Marcus
Wells Fargo

Awards & Publications

  • APEX Award - For contributions to the Into Literature experience with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Communication Arts Typography Annual - The Esquire Tavern, site development with Giles Design Bureau
  • Polaroid - "Homage to an Icon", AIGA photography annual
  • San Antonio Express News - "Joy to the World" product design feature with Ode to Joy (cookie mix)
  • Elle Décor - “Decorating Outdoors” - product design feature with C&F / Colonial Williamsburg line
  • Children’s Business - "A Rally in Raleigh" - interview and photo with Patsy Aiken & their Chez Ami line