Mike Monteiro
Creative Director
Mike Monteiro
Mike brings more than a decade of experience creating outstanding visual and interactive design. He has served as lead visual designer for ReliefWeb, Six Apart, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and for the Glaucoma Research Foundation. He excels in creating visual interface systems to aid navigation and clarify complex content. He’s also funny.
Mike received his BA in Fine Art from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and his MFA in Graphic Design from University of Texas, Austin.
Erika Hall
Lead Strategist
Erika Hall
Erika, a founding partner, has been working in Web design and development since 1995. Her specialties are audience-centered strategy, content development, branding, and information architecture. She provided user research and design strategy for ReliefWeb, and was the lead information architect in redesigns for the Glaucoma Research Foundation, Six Apart, College Track, and 826 Valencia, among others. In previous agency roles, Erika has worked with a diverse array of clients including Electronic Arts (Content Strategy), EXPN (Community Strategy), and Xerox (Writing and Project Management). She began her career in Web design on the technical side, developing websites for IDG, a global leader in technology publishing.
Erika received her BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College.
David McCreath
Lead Developer
David McCreath
David has worked on the web since 1994, pre-dating even Netscape 1.0. In that time he has been a designer, a developer, a programmer, a project manager, and a creative director. His single purpose with every job is to make the web a little more usable and to make it better for the user, and believes the path to this enlightenment is standards-compliant code and semantically sound pages. His understanding of the entire development process helps him bridge gaps between disciplines often found in web development teams.
David received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin.
Amber Costley
Senior Designer
Amber Costley
Amber joined us from Los Angeles where she was a Lead Designer at Ignited Minds. She has lead design for website and advertising design projects for a variety of consumer-oriented clients including Sony, Activision, Apple, Schweppes, and Levis. Recently she has been working with us on a navigation redesign for ProBono.net and a website redesign for QuickBooks Online Edition.
Amber has over 7 years of experience in Web design and online advertising, with particular skills in animation and high-level concept development.
Katie Spence
Crowd Control
Katie Spence
Katie is our key point of contact for business development and client relationships. She is Mule's buffer from the cold, cruel world. After a brief foray into the music business in Austin, Katie made the move to San Francisco in 2006 where she joined the Mules in their quest for total design domination.
Katie received her BS in Public Relations from the University of Texas. She appreciates the symmetry of her degree.
Who We Are
We are listeners, questioners, and collaborative problem-solvers. We are passionate advocates for your audience. We are smart, experienced, and polished. We are designers who get things done.
Why We’re Here
We’re out to build a company that succeeds by creating excellent experiences on behalf of good people. As designers, we ask not only how best to solve a problem, but why. We want our work to make a positive difference in the world. And we want to have a good time doing it, too.
