Summary
Janina Hartley is a freelance designer in Providence, RI with a decade of experience crafting user-centric visuals, web and mobile interfaces, and brand identities. She blends creative empathy with business sensibility, routinely turning user research and teaching-method insights into responsive MVPs and engaging educational prototypes. Comfortable sketching through to code, she has shipped projects using Illustrator, Sketch, InDesign, HTML/Sass and Jekyll while collaborating closely with developers and cross-functional teams. Her portfolio spans corporate rebrands, merchandise and event collateral to schedule-heavy workforce apps and game-based learning tools—demonstrating a knack for making complex workflows feel accessible and delightful. Unusually for a designer, she has built functioning prototypes and MVPs herself, bridging the gap between concept and deployable product.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design and Digital Media, Junior, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design and Digital Media, Junior at Champlain College
User Interface and Web Design, User Interface and Web Design at The Iron Yard