PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

About Me

Hi there! I’m Megan Stroud, and I am an NCIDQ registered senior designer with over 8 years of experience. Born and raised in Dallas, I moved to Chicago nearly 10 years ago, after graduating with a Bachelor of Interior Design degree from Texas Tech University. While working on my Masters degree at Harrington College of Design, I completed full-time internships at the Gensler Chicago office and the Coalesse furniture showroom in the Mart.

I have had experience in a large breadth of project types and clients; I have specialized in workplace design in tenant workplace interiors, marketing suites, and commercial building amenity spaces. My project work as a junior designer included multi-family residential complexes, retail showrooms, fitness & café facilities, and a few workplace interiors.

Throughout my career, I have developed a huge passion for user-experience focused design, as well as materiality, furniture design, and graphic design. My approach to design is holistic and comprehensive, and always driven by empathy and trying to understand the user’s experience and needs; I strive to be as thoughtful and detail-oriented as possible throughout each step of the design process, and absolutely love collaborating with my fellow designers and clients alike! I really love learning and questioning everything, so I’m never afraid to ask questions or try new ways of doing things.

Outside of design, I like trying my hand at lots of different creative outlets, including gouache painting, sketching with charcoal, and abstract embroidery stitching. I frequent my local public library pretty regularly, and am an avid consumer of true crime podcasts and murder mystery books. I’m constantly listening to music and making new playlists, and I love cooking/bartending/barista-ing for myself and friends. And I’m living that single dog mom life in West Town with my new puppy baby, Willie.