Small is mighty.
Zaudhaus is a small team of visionaries, strategists and design experts based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Because of our desire to deliver the best work possible, we only take on a few clients at a time. This means you engage with the core people who work hands-on, from initial concept to final product.
Our goal is to help you transform your business. We are passionate about building brand value through strategic design and thinking. Relentlessly curious, we are constantly looking for new and unconventional ways to tell stories, build experiences, connect with an audience, and deliver brand value.
Our services range from high-level strategy to branding, identity, design, packaging, and marketing collateral including hands-on design and development work, designing interactive products for desktop, web, and mobile as well as traditional print design. We deliver our work across mediums including digital and traditional advertising campaigns, content marketing, and social influencer marketing.
The Team
Victor Zaud
CO-FOUNDER, INFORMATION ARCHITECT, DESIGNER
A veteran leader working at the intersection of business, technology and design, Vic brings big picture strategic thinking and positivity to projects he advises on at Zaudhaus. Informed by his tenure at Apple, where he learned that to create something truly great, testing is important to validate ones ideas and vision not drive them; Vic understands the importance of insight, intuition, and belief in solid concepts for products that people will love to use. He inspires and guides companies to craft their best stories. Backed by a belief that businesses thrive when they make strong connections with their audiences, Vic turns every challenge into opportunity and bridges the gap between innovation and execution.
“Every client and every company has a story. I love figuring out how to help tell that story in a way that will captivate their audience. It’s not magic, it’s about focus and looking deeply at a business.”
Recent Products & Brands Launched:
Symphony Procurement Systems
IMVU
Jobmi
Goeschl Law
Affymetrix
Co-Founded & Helped Start:
Mode Media
Dovetail Entertainment
Net Objects
Republic of Tea
JuiceBeauty
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Jessie McAnulty
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, illustrator
Jessie’s long history with building brands includes designing some of the most notable in America. That hard won experience—in how to reach consumers and connect them with what they love—is a talent we treasure at Zaudhaus. We are also extremely proud of her ability to develop unique visual designs that truly stand out and that consumers connect with. Additionally, taking an active role in her children’s education both in academics and music has invigorated her passion for music and her Scottish roots.
Major Brands:
CNET
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
LVMH
Sun Microsystems
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Amber Muller
Web design, email marketing & Brand
Amber is a visual designer with nine years of experience in brand and advertising roles. A lover of collaboration, Amber is a thoughtful problem-solver who enjoys working with others to create meaningful experiences that forge connections through design.
Recent Products & Brands Launched:
Fabletics
Frameable
Worked with:
Ruggable
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Marina Popova
UX design, Brand BUILDING & Identity
Marina is a big picture thinker with 16+ years of brand & marketing expertise—leading projects at both, nimble startups and industry leaders. Her secret power lies in her vast experience of crafting scalable and practical solutions across the brand spectrum. Work ranging from foundational brand development to dynamic email campaigns, comprehensive design systems, fun campaigns, internal communications, print materials, and beyond.
Recent Products & Brands Launched:
Chegg
Wag!
Rocket Lawyer
Worked with:
Shutterfly
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Christina Ha
visual development, key-art & illustration
Christina is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist, who uses a unique blend of vision and skill to captivate audiences with her vibrant creations. With her background in the entertainment and film industry and focus on illustration and design, Christina brings flair to every project with her creativity. Having collaborated with a variety of esteemed clients, she is known for her exceptional work on key art and localization for numerous TV shows and movies. Beyond the screen, her portfolio extends to editorial and book illustrations, custom graphics, package design, and typography.
“Art thrives by evolving and embracing new ideas, and as artists, our goal is to give our audience a grander, more hopeful version of themselves.”
Worked with:
Disney+
Netflix | Netflix Gaming
Nickelodeon
HBO Max
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Sheena Young
DESIGNER, RESEARCHER, EXPLORER, advisor
Sheena lives to understand a brand and its products’ unique values, then help create authentic and memorable experiences around those values in both print and digital. She believes that a path to creating a timeless design is to first recognize people’s inherent needs and connect with them. Driven by passion, courage, and play, her work instills purpose and personality into a design that is curious, sensible and pleasant.
“Design is one of the main drivers for a positive cultural impact today and I am grateful to be a part of it.”
Has Worked With:
Affymetrix
3PAR
Dell
Follow Your Heart
Mode Media
Descanso Gardens
Institute for Health & Healing
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Jen Byyny
enterprise UX design, Brand Marketing & Identity
Jen Byyny is a multi-platform, end-to-end Product Design Leader with over twenty years of experience. Her background includes undergrad and graduate degrees in business marketing and media design respectively, roles in art direction in advertising, and interactive experience leadership for web and mobile. Jen is a system thinker and loves to ask, “What if?” She is most excited about leading teams on projects and brainstorming new strategic solutions. Together with colleagues in design, engineering, and product they research, create, test and ship optimized user experiences.
Recent Products & Brands Launched:
Teladoc Health
Strava
International Museum of Women
Worked with:
Looker Data Sciences
Yahoo
Grey Global
Livongo
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Joanna Barth
UX REsearch, design & innovation strategy
Joanna Barth is a user researcher and design strategist with a passion for understanding people and translating their unmet needs into successful product and service offerings that create value across the entire product life cycle. She has over two decades of experience leading generative and evaluative research for new product development innovation and strategic marketing.
Has Worked With:
Dow Jones
LG Electronics
Hyundai Motor Company
General Mills
The US Army
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Raj Narayan
Engineer, anthropologist, ADVENTURER
Raj blends his deep knowledge of software engineering and system architecture with his passion for creative problem-solving. With his broad awareness of platforms and technologies, Raj is as comfortable building new platforms as he is talking about them and helping others understand them. His experience in multiple industries and markets, backed by a keen understanding of the consumer, delivers real insight to product development at Zaudhaus.
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
Recent Products & Brands Launched:
Funlr
Co-Founded & Helped Start:
Mode Media
Ibizu
diCarta
Net Objects
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Linda Tarango
EVENTS, PRESENTATIONS & product launches
Linda heads our client presentation efforts where some of a brands best strategy work is born. She is an industry veteran who helps clients elevate the impact of their most important presentations and communications. For nearly 10 years, Linda served as project manager for Steve Jobs’ legendary keynote presentations that introduced iPod, MacBook Air, iPhone, and iPad to the world. Prior to her work at Apple, Linda managed advertising projects for ABC Television, Virgin, Disney, and Cisco.
“The best presenter is an authentic one.”
Sam McMillan
Brand STRATEGIST, WriteR, THINKER
Sam is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer, teacher, and producer of new media projects. His work includes brand identity and naming, educational games, retail environments, and video. Long-time technology resources editor for Communication Arts Magazine, McMillan’s recent feature stories explored virtual reality, gestural design, and the design of car dashboard interfaces.
Major Brands:
NASA GeneLab
San Francisco Ballet
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
TCHO Chocolates
Cisco
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