Team

Peopledesign people are strategists, designers, writers, developers, and managers. In our work, ‘markets’ are simply People Who Want things, or want things to be better. Empathizing with the people in our clients’ markets can transform their business at best, yield game-changing design at least. We collaborate with each other and with our clients. We work best in teams, respecting each other’s strengths. We know people support what they help to build. So we work together, with our clients, to build our future.

Kevin Budelmann
President
Kevin specializes in design theory and practice in the overlapping contexts of business, technology, and society.
Yang Kim
Executive Creative Director
Yang changes minds. Our Creative Director, she is our top visual communicator, always able to find fresh, startling ways of seeing and showing.
Chris Taylor
Strategist
Chris Taylor cares about the numbers. Your numbers, specifically.
Michele Brautnick
Design Director
Michele inspires and produces. She will develop five brilliant concepts for everybody else’s two, and has the annoying habit of often writing the best copy in the house.
Brian Hauch
Design Director
Brian is the eye of the hurricane, the quiet wit in the room, the bringer of platinum accolades to the office.
Curt Wozniak
Writer/Editor
A designer's mind, a journalist's precision, a stand-up comic's intuition, and a drummer's sense of rhythm all make the copy Curt writes just so right.
Julie Ridl
Senior Strategist/Editor
Chief empath and storyteller, Julie asks probing questions, listens hard, helps you define your future and frame your story. Handy, yes?
Heather Jensen
Finance Manager
Our Finance Manager is a designer/accountant – flexible and precise, circumspect and mindful, loose and structured, and really, very funny.
Kelly Beat
Project Manager
We pulled this powder hound off the slopes of northern Michigan, fueled her up on peanut M&Ms, and set her loose tracking budgets and work flow. A natural.
Diana Racek
Marketing Manager
Diana makes sure we all stay well fed and rested and educated, with good tools and a nice roof over our heads and ready to take on great projects.
Jason Six
Designer
Jason became a graphic designer when he figured out the military wasn't disciplined enough for him. Design calisthenics, anyone?
David Schofield
Designer
David is a gifted designer who makes beautiful, thoughtful, touching, and funny all play nicely together. He thinks hard and sweats the details.
Kelly O’Hara
Designer
Drive, style, inquisitiveness, an awesome bagel recipe (or so we're told... hint, hint), and the luck of the Irish. We're lucky to have her.
Gina Caratelli
Designer
Gina has that special kind of smarts, translating your message into effective visual, symbolic language.
Andy Weber
Senior Developer
Pour green tea into his mouth, open his mind, and watch elegant code fall from his fingertips. Breathtaking.
Scott Krieger
Senior Developer/Strategist
Scott stays at the front of our technology evolution, pushing us and easing our clients along to ever more elegant, agile expressions of information. He's a genius.
Diana Sherman
Office Manager
Shermie manages our office and greets our clients, and tries very hard to keep tabs on where to find all of us at any given hour.