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Hi, I’m Kate Prokofy Eva Los Gatos, a visual designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience crafting thoughtful, flexible visual systems that scale across products and brands. I enjoy shaping brand-aligned design across platforms and translating complex concepts into clear, engaging visuals. I’ve led visual direction at Google, built scalable libraries, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, clarity, and momentum on ambitious projects. I’m passionate about practical design patterns, reusable components, and empowering teams to ship compelling educational content and user experiences at scale.…Hi, I’m Kate Prokofy Eva Los Gatos, a visual designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience crafting thoughtful, flexible visual systems that scale across products and brands. I enjoy shaping brand-aligned design across platforms and translating complex concepts into clear, engaging visuals. I’ve led visual direction at Google, built scalable libraries, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, clarity, and momentum on ambitious projects. I’m passionate about practical design patterns, reusable components, and empowering teams to ship compelling educational content and user experiences at scale.

Kate Prokofyeva

Illustrator, Designer, Graphic Designer, +2

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Hi, I’m Kate Prokofy Eva Los Gatos, a visual designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience crafting thoughtful, flexible visual systems that scale across products and brands. I enjoy shaping brand-aligned design across platforms and translating complex concepts into clear, engaging visuals. I’ve led visual direction at Google, built scalable libraries, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, clarity, and momentum on ambitious projects. I’m passionate about practical design patterns, reusable components, and empowering teams to ship compelling educational content and user experiences at scale.…Hi, I’m Kate Prokofy Eva Los Gatos, a visual designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience crafting thoughtful, flexible visual systems that scale across products and brands. I enjoy shaping brand-aligned design across platforms and translating complex concepts into clear, engaging visuals. I’ve led visual direction at Google, built scalable libraries, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, clarity, and momentum on ambitious projects. I’m passionate about practical design patterns, reusable components, and empowering teams to ship compelling educational content and user experiences at scale.

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Hi, I’m Kate Prokofy Eva Los Gatos, a visual designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience crafting thoughtful, flexible visual systems that scale across products and brands. I enjoy shaping brand-aligned design across platforms and translating complex concepts into clear, engaging visuals.

I’ve led visual direction at Google, built scalable libraries, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, clarity, and momentum on ambitious projects. I’m passionate about practical design patterns, reusable components, and empowering teams to ship compelling educational content and user experiences at scale.

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Work Experience

Visual Designer and Illustrator at Google

March 1, 2021 - Present

Owned and drove visual direction across a large internal product and marketing organization, supporting multiple teams and a wide range of stakeholders. Established core brand foundations: visual principles, reusable templates, and documented design guidelines embedded in everyday team workflows. Built and scaled shared libraries spanning illustration systems, UI elements, and visual assets for educational content and user-facing experiences, improving consistency, efficiency, and long-term reuse. Balanced strategic ownership with direct design contributions, particularly in evolving team and organizational contexts. Brought clarity, alignment, and momentum on complex, ambiguous initiatives.

Visual Designer & Illustrator at Pixel Mixer

September 1, 2014 - March 1, 2021

Designed custom illustrations, icon systems, and visual assets tailored to product and brand requirements; produced large volumes of educational and learning materials for children across digital products and print; developed consistent visual style and scalable illustration system; collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate concepts and requirements into visuals; delivered work for a range of clients, including Google and Hasbro ESGI.

Illustrator at Internet Technologies

March 1, 2010 - September 1, 2012

Designed a wide range of digital assets for a multiplayer online role-playing game, including characters, environments, symbols, backgrounds, UI elements and marketing materials; developed a cohesive visual style aligned with game assets and external marketing, ensuring a consistent player experience across touchpoints; collaborated with game designers and developers to support gameplay, narrative, and usability requirements; adapted assets for multiple contexts and formats, balancing artistic quality with production constraints.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator at Rocket Theme

September 1, 2012 - September 1, 2013

Defined and delivered a cohesive icon system inspired by macOS aesthetics, establishing a polished, high-fidelity visual language used across a broad range of applications; set standards for depth, clarity, and visual consistency; created a complementary illustration style aligned with the icon system to enhance user experience and reinforce visual coherence across product surfaces; partnered with product and design teams to apply and evolve the visual language as products and features expanded.