SNAKE OIL DESIGNStudio · est. 2015

An elixir to set you right.

Design that earns the trust the namesake only pretends to sell.

The Maker
Craft pedigree
BFA, Sequential ArtSavannah College of Art & Design — storytelling one frame at a time1998
MS, User Experience DesignKent State University2016
Regional EmmyBroadcast motion graphicsAward
Horizon & Communicator awardsRecognition
Published articleUser Experience Professionals Association Magazine2014
Illustration & cartooningThe hand behind the studioCraft
25 years of makingAcross brand, product, broadcast & printPractice
The Practice
The studio
Snake Oil Design LLCGeorgia, est. 2015est. 2015
SNAKE OIL DESIGN™The studio's own markTrademark
Full design stack for hireProduct · UX · websites · motion · brand · illustrationOffer
Clients across brand, broadcast & productOwned marks, not borrowed onesClients
Atlanta + remoteWorking wherever the brief isWhere

§Practitioner pedigree

Career experience — not studio clients.

One senior practitioner, deliberately — not a scaled team. You get the person who did the work at scale, not a layer between you and them. That’s the trade, and it’s the point. Here’s the experience that shaped the method:

Across 25 years in-house and at agencies, I’ve designed for…

BroadcastFox Sports
AutomotiveAutotrader · Kelley Blue Book · General Motors · Jeep · Ford
RetailThe Home Depot · Lowe’s

Across 25 years of freelance, I’ve designed for…

Smaller BrandsFranchise Electrician · Legacy Family Bakery · Atlanta Nightclubs · LGBTQ Organizations

That work was done as an employee or contractor of those firms — it’s the experience behind Snake Oil, not Snake Oil’s client roster. The full history and case studies live at scottharriman.com.

The throughline

One studio. One mark. The honest cure.

The joke is the door. The work is the room.

Enterprise & principal UX

Scott Harriman

The career portfolio — Applied-AI product design, enterprise UX, and the deeper case studies for hiring teams.

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The shop

Placebo Syndicate

Fine cure-all lifestyle goods — the studio's storefront for prints, apparel, and merch.

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