After many years as a web designer, user experience architect and creative director at several large agencies in the vibrant Minneapolis design scene, I took the leap into full-time freelance work. Instead of pursuing client work like most freelancers, I have focused on providing services directly to agencies. The benefit for me is that without client meetings, pitching and sales efforts, I am able to keep my rates very competitive. The benefit for you is that you can depend on me for great work at a price that allows you to charge a healthy margin to your clients.
I love to work with web startups designing interfaces, refining usability and improving interactions. I've been lucky to be involved in many great web 2.0 builds, and I'm a great solution for a dev team that needs front end design assistance.
Of course you want great work. That's a given. Also very important in developing a long-term partner is dependability and communication. I have much more work I am not able to display online and plenty of agency references available.
"Mateo not only creates the great designs our clients need within budget, but he has a fantastic work ethic. He is always easy to work with. Also, his technical expertise only adds to usability of his interface design and makes him an even greater asset to our projects."
Chris Fulton ~ Creative Director at Reside
"Mateo is like an extension of our agency. He consistently delivers work that is on brand, on target and on time."
Bill Breedlove ~ President at Fusion Advertising
"Mateo produced a website from a design I provided to him in Photoshop. I was impressed with his quick response, ability to follow my design to the pixel, and incorporate everything discussed in the style sheet. I have worked with others to produce the backend for websites, and it has never been this easy and smooth. I will definitely hire Mateo again to help me with future web projects."
Danielle Mai ~ Creative Director at Banana Creative
"Mateo brings the light of usability to a world too crowded with user obstacles. Having him on our team turned our focus away from feature-loading and towards feature-using and enhancing the overall user experience."
Dave Dash ~ Frontend Programmer at Yahoo
"Working with Mateo has proven to be a valuable experience. Mateo is easy to work with and creative. He has always been efficient with my time and delivers results that have a positive impact on my clients and my revenues."
Jennifer J. Sherry ~ Principal at FireFly Consulting
"Working with Mateo was a great experience and the results were terrific. He definitely delivered a UI design for navigation/look & feel, which would maximize usability and be engaging to the user. I was very impressed by his style of listening carefully and asking many questions to understand the goals for my project. Over several meetings, he helped turn my rough ideas into something concrete, and more importantly, he helped uncover some new concepts, which took the project to a whole new level. This highly collaborative process was actually a lot of fun. It's obvious Mateo has tremendous passion for his work and that he thoroughly enjoys the creative process. The end product was very professional and complete, and I'm expecting to work with Mateo again on future projects."
Kurt Hartmann ~ Owner at Virtual Piggy Bank
"When I need a quality website design I can always count on Mateo to deliver. His work is exceptional and it is always delivered on or before the date promised."
Jason Belden ~ Creative Director at W3Trends
"Mateo had a keen eye for structuring the "look and feel" of our website. He did an excellent job translating input from our business development code team into templates for use by the dev. team to facilitate implementation of web pages. Mateo was a pleasure to work with and displayed a positive, can do, attitude."
Mark Johnson ~ Director of Programs at WorkFace
"Mateo is skilled and knowledgeable designer, a personable teammate, and perhaps rarest of all, an effective organizer and communicator. Unlike many freelancers who are talented creatively but challenged on the business side, Mateo delivers the whole package."
Steve Daily ~ Creative Director at Daily Planet Marketing
"Mateo understands the essence of new generation web design and user interface layout. His designs are not only sleek, clean and professional, but embody the highest level of best practices with regard to simplicity and ease of use."
Wesley Cox ~ President at Winston Media