I’m Melina, a Brand Strategist and Creative Director from San Francisco.

I work the way I'm built: foundation-first, craft-driven, and uncompromising. Before anything is deployed, it's interrogated, shaped by 14+ years of building brand systems and design frameworks for brands like Mozilla, Sephora, Method, and Expedia.

That foundation is informed by on-the-ground research, how people navigate, feel, and decide in real environments, translated into design that instructs emotion before it requests action — across every environment it inhabits — on screen or in the room.

WHAT I LOVE DOING

Problem Solving at Inflection

Identify Core Problems
Deep Research
Vision Mapping

CLARITY

Activate Culture
Defy the Expected
Perfect Then Break

MOVEMENT

Process Development
Visual Language
Scaling Frameworks

INFRASTRUCTURE

My client roster includes some of the most innovative brands in the world, such as...

Expedia
Mozilla
Firefox
Sephora
Moxielash
Bare Minerals
American Giant
Betable

MY WORK

UX Strategy, Creative Direction+

Made:
Design System

CASE STUDY

UX Design, Branding, Creative Strategy

Moxielash:
Creative Direction

CASE STUDY

UX Design, Visual Design

method®:
Interactive Quiz

CASE STUDY

UX Design, Visual Design

Mozilla Careers:
Microsite

CASE STUDY