Shaela Designs Overview
Company: Shaela Druyon Designs
Clients: Various Entrepeneurs Detailed Below
Role: Owner, Web Designer
Website Release Date: Various times from 2018-present
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Design lead, Website designer, Copywriter)
What is Shaela Designs?
A one-stop digital design service helping entrepreneurs bring their vision to life online, quickly and affordably.
Contributions
Logo Design: Helped design logos for clients based on their wishes, giving them 3-5 iterations and often going above and beyond to leave them ecstatic about their final asset.
Communication/Education: Helped communicate technical needs clearly and educationally, so that clients felt empowered when making choices about their digital brand. Gave clear recommendations and reasonings for design choices, then deferred to the client's wishes on further iterations.
Website Design: Designed mobile-friendly websites with respect to the client's brand and wishes. Set up sites on Wordpress, Wix, SquareSpace, Shopify, etc.--wherever the client wished to host and maintain their site. Also educated them on how to use said hosting platforms, so that they felt equipped to make small changes themselves without the need to hire a designer.
The Results
Clients were extremely happy with their websites and the experience working with me. The following are just a few examples of my work and the client's testimonials.
Client Projects & Testimonials
Company: PDX Minimakers
Role: Web Designer/Marketing Consultant
Website Release Date: February, 2026
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website designer, marketing, copywriting)
Client Testimonial:
“Shaela brought a level of confidence and professionalism to PDX MiniMakers that made a real difference from day one. As our contract web designer, she was efficient, reliable, and required little hand-holding, which is exactly what you need when you're running a fast-moving program. What stood out most was her communication: she kept me informed, asked the right questions at the right times, and was clear and direct. I would not hesitate to recommend her for any role that calls for someone who can hit the ground running.”
~Ralph, Co-Founder of PDX Minimakers
The Client
PDX Minimakers is a 3D Printing afterschool program for 3rd-8th grade.
As the Web design and marketing lead, Shaela worked with one of the founders to create three new product pages and revamp the company's home page. She also created marketing assets like lead magnets and a landing-page-like newsletter. She also made their website ADA compliant, added a custom cart button, and other custom code to make their Squarespace site fit their Product and Customer needs.
Contributions
Website Design: Redesigned their SquareSpace home page and produced 3 new product pages in line with that design system. Custom coded a cart button, animated slideshows for testimonials, and created 20+ new product connected to their shop.
Marketing Assets: Designed marketing assets (web page videos, hero images) and a landing-page-like newsletter with a custom hero image.
SEO Assessment: Assessed and reported on the website's current SEO score, including recommendations for improvement should the company desire those services and changes in the future.
Mobile-First Design: Brought clear, mobile-first UX/UI principles to the project, making navigation and product viewing easy and clear on mobile screens.
The Results
The website gained more traffic and conversions in their new product launches. I brought the site’s ADA compliance score from 64 (failing), to 100 (fully compliant), helping users more easily navigate their site and protecting the company from accessibility lawsuits.
The client was extremely happy with the new, minimalist designs that made it easy to view all of their offerings and encouraged users to become clients.
Client: Candy Straight, Founder and CEO of FlamingoBox.Co
Role: Web Designer
Website Release Date: 2024
Platform: Shopify
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website editor, Copywriter, Zapier automation engineer)
Client Testimonial:
"Hands down, Shaela is THE BEST Web Designer in the Universe! She took me through a custom process from start to finish that was tailored to meet the needs of my personal business and brand. She walked me through my vision, my goals, my ideas and helped me to bring them to life. By the time she was done, they were even better than what I had initially imagined! Every fear, ‘what if’ and doubt that prevented me from starting my company years ago, was met with Shaela's encouragement, wisdom and ‘can do’ attitude. As I look at my logo and my website, I am filled with endless gratitude for Shaela Designs and the mastermind behind it! Thank you x 100 billion, Shaela!”
~ Candy, Founder and CEO of FlamingoBox.Co
Client: Julie Landi, CEO of LiveYourVision.us
Role: Web Designer
Website Release Date: 2018
Platform: WordPress
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website designer, Copywriter)
Client Testimonial:
"Websites are so personal as a reflection of something you’ve worked hard for. Shaela is multi talented and as an artist and a tech genius all in one, she is invaluable. But the best part about her is how she strives to really listen and translate your vision and bring your message to life. She makes you look good. I am so excited about my new website by Shaela Designs. I highly recommend working with her for that extra personal touch."
~ Julie Landie, CEO of LiveYourVision.us
I built the original LiveYourVision.us website using WordPress and custom CSS.
Note: The current website has had minor tweaks done later outside the original design. (i.e. where you see the red buttons with gold text on the home page that are harder to read, and other minor deviations from the original design scheme.)
The rest largely remains true to the original designs.
Client: Mary Kay, Owner of MKShine.net
Role: Web Designer
Website Release Date: 2019-2020
Platform: SquareSpace
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website designer, Copywriter)
Client Testimonial:
"Your work is simply SPECTACULAR! The pictures you are adding to my website are perfect, perfect, perfect! It's like you are inside my brain or something. I LOVE MY SHAELA DESIGNED WEBSITE.”
~ Mary Kay Neyland, Owner of MKShine.net
MKShine was built on SquareSpace, and I taught my client how to maintain and change things on their site if they wanted to do small tweaks without me. Even still, they hired me again for any major changes needed.
Client: Tiffany Walker
Role: Web Designer
Website Release Date: 2021
Platform: Wix
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website designer, Copywriter)
Client Testimonial:
"I am glad to have worked with Shaela. She is full of great ideas and integrated her creativity and knowledge with the concepts that I had in mind. She is professional and hardworking. Additionally, she takes initiative in areas of need or development that she identifies. I am so happy with the website and work that has been done! I just love how she brought my ideas to life, streamlined them, and made it captivating and functional. I will continue to work with this amazing woman!"
~ Tiffany Walker
I built Tiffany’s website using her Wix.com account, to promote her podcast and other content in an easy, user-friendly and mobile-first design.
Client: Laurie James
Role: Web Designer
Website Release Date: 2022
Platform: SquareSpace
Credits:
Shaela Druyon (Website editor, Copywriter)
Client Testimonial:
"I can't thank you enough for your help and support with my website!"
~ Laurie James
Another SquareSpace site I set up for my client, who, after working with me, felt comfortable editing and maintaining it herself.