Complicated things, drawn until they are obvious.
Visual designer and storyteller. I take tangled, technical, nobody-can-explain-it ideas and turn them into pictures and sentences people remember on the walk back to their desk.
- 01Explainer illustration
The one image the whole team links to.
- 02Narrative & story design
Words and pictures in the same argument, in the right order.
- 03Systems maps & diagrams
Flows, journeys, architectures — legible to humans, not just the team that built them.
- 04Live drawing & workshops
I'll be at the whiteboard while you argue. It helps.
- Listen hard. Read everything, ask the dumb questions on purpose.
- Find the spine. One sentence. Then one sketch of that sentence.
- Draw it badly. Deliberately rough, so it is still cheap to be wrong.
- Make it beautiful. And keep it true — those are not a trade.
Hi, I'm Kari Sabine. I have been making websites for twenty-five years, always drawn to design, illustration, and writing — and to the creative work that holds them together. Seven years as a frontend developer, a bachelor's degree as a copywriter, now a service designer with a UX background — I make the complicated simple, and worth remembering.
karisabine@gmail.com