Kat Dolan

Plunderstorm was an experimental game mode within World of Warcraft. The aim was to use the existing platform that WoW is built on to create a Battle Royale. I owned the UI Art for this, and worked on many of the UX challenges that came with movement and interaction that deviated from the way WoW typically works (e.g. interacting with in-world items, slotting new abilities in the heat of battle etc.)

The UI Art needed to match the larger WoW style, but there was a bit more wiggle room to simplify and modernize than there is in the main game.

Hunter Stable Redesign:
I created the art for the Stable UI in which the Hunter class keeps their pets. This UI allows them to see all of their pets in a list, the specialization of that pet, and their upgrade progress.

Icons:
These are two of the icons I've made for WoW. These two are from a Dreamsurge event during the spring.

Major Factions:
Hand painted assets for all Major Factions UI, including panels, frame art, and minimap icon for the Dragonflight expansion of World of Warcraft. This was my first project on WoW and served as a valuable exercise in sticking to established styles while working to move the design forward.

My layout below with a radial progress bar breaking the frame as well as the flatter, color gradient list items have been adopted into WoW's style for future features.

I established the visual styles for Spellbreak, as well as a large portion of the navigation architecture and interaction. These are some examples of specific features that I designed (all text, buttons, containers, UI colors, layouts, most icons, and the underlying UX is my work).

I designed the HUD for Spellbreak, a magic battle royale. This included working closely with Gameplay Design to make sure every animation communicates the right information. I also worked very closely with Gameplay Engineering, often designing on the fly, to make sure everything feels just right.

I did contract work for Valorant, working on the UX layout for Agent Mastery, and adhering to their UI Art style (characters and icons are not my art, just layout, gradients, and interactive elements)

This game was an unannounced project that we shelved at Proletariat. It was a Solar Punk rogue-lite shooter taking place in a virtual, green city that was mysteriously abandoned.

To evoke the feeling of this world, I developed a visual UI style that utilizes glassmorphism to give it a modern look, vibrant colors for optimism and fun, but with glitchy animations and chromatic aberration to gently communicate that the positivity is a projected facade.

Designed the visual style of this mobile idle game. Created all UI art, icons, and style guides. I was also responsible for UX, laying out screens and user testing them, as well as implementing the layouts in Unity.

All UI elements, icons, and visual styles are my work. The aesthetic goal was industrial punk and art-deco with some higher technology.

Project Darkmoon was a battle royale version of World of Warcraft that took place in a Darkmoon Faire themed map. Although the project ended up undergoing a massive theme change that resulted in Plunderstorm, Project Darkmoon had an internal favorite vibe.

On this project, I was the UI Art Lead, mentoring one other UI Artist as well as two UX designers, having worked on a battle royale previously.

I worked on UX and UI for this project. The UI style was designed before I started, meant to be gritty and painterly using organic splatter shapes made with shaders. This posed an interesting challenge when I came on to keep elements readable and organized. I addressed this by replacing previously organic edges on buttons and containers with cleaner harder lines, leaving the paint splatters for notification badges and as a background texture behind icons.

Here are a few recent freelance projects:

Panopticon: A logo for an indie game studio

Brato: Logo and branding for a local brewery and kitchen

Sandy Ewing for City Council: Campaign signage, website, and branding for a Tennessee Councilwoman (she won the election)

Here are some WIPs and progress shots to demonstrate my typical work process

Along with UI Art at DraftKings, I worked on UX flows for several features- some on web, but mainly on mobile.

I would start with a wireframe flow map, getting buy-in from product owners and the UI/UX team. When the kinks were worked out of the flow I’d mock up key screens to capture all unique UI elements. From that point I would measure out values for any new elements and work with development to make sure the final product is consistent with the design and the style guide.

Created all icons, selected palette and body font, created visual style for buttons, containers, overlays, and fill bars.

UI style guide for elements, icons, and usage rules, mainly for the web but many of the styles cross over to mobile as well.