Summary
Julie Karnes is a multidisciplinary designer and front-end developer with nine years of experience crafting brand identities and responsive web experiences from Dallas. She pairs a BFA in Visual Communication with a full-stack web development certificate to build React and SASS-driven interfaces, including a framework-agnostic component library used to standardize UI across enterprise applications. Equally at home in Adobe Creative Suite, photography, and video editing, she blends visual storytelling with practical front-end engineering to deliver cohesive campaigns and reusable design systems. As a freelancer and in-house designer at organizations like D.R. Horton and Pei Wei, she has led branding, email and intranet projects that streamline marketing and UX. Notably, she brings a rare combination of traditional print craft and modern component-driven web design, enabling cross-channel consistency that meets both client specs and developer needs.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate, Full Stack Web Development, Professional Certificate, Full Stack Web Development at Southern Methodist University
BFA, Visual Communication, BFA, Visual Communication at University of Oklahoma