My work provides clear navigation of Healthcare, services, institutions, digital tools, and complex workflows. My tools are visual design, strategic thinking, finding connections to provide context, and a commitment to clarity. My focus is always on reducing friction and helping people find their way or find their place.

I create visual systems that guide, inform, and support. Whether it's a patient navigating care, a team launching a new program, or an organization rethinking how it communicates its unique youth programming, I help translate the complicated into something people can actually use.

Good design is not just what something looks like. It is how clearly people understand it.

Illustration of a person with short hair wearing glasses looking upwards, set against a pastel sky with clouds and falling meteorites..

Karen Hodo

I chart the invisible terrain between people and the systems they navigate.